Senior Oracle ERP Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Oracle ERP Specialist
📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time
💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, commercial excellence, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams work across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership.
We rely on effective enterprise systems to support project delivery, financial management, procurement, supply chain operations, reporting, and business governance. We are committed to improving operational efficiency, data integrity, and the reliability of our technology platforms.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Oracle ERP Specialist to manage, support, optimize, and enhance Oracle ERP applications across the organization. This role will provide functional and technical expertise for Oracle ERP systems, helping ensure that enterprise processes are accurately configured, efficiently executed, and aligned with business requirements.
The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Project Controls, Commercial, IT, and other business stakeholders to support ERP operations, resolve system issues, deliver enhancements, and contribute to implementation and transformation initiatives. The specialist will help maintain system stability, improve business processes, and ensure reliable reporting and integration across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
Provide senior-level functional and technical support for Oracle ERP applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite and/or Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, depending on the organization's environment.
Administer, maintain, and optimize Oracle ERP modules supporting finance, procurement, projects, supply chain, inventory, and related business operations.
Work with business stakeholders to understand operational requirements and translate them into effective Oracle ERP solutions.
Support Oracle ERP modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Procurement, Inventory, Project Costing, and Project Management, as applicable.
Maintain a strong understanding of end-to-end business processes, including record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and project-to-cost management.
Analyze existing ERP processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, accuracy, and control.
Gather, document, and validate business requirements for system enhancements, configuration changes, and new functionality.
Conduct fit-gap assessments and recommend appropriate solutions using standard Oracle capabilities wherever practical.
Configure and maintain Oracle ERP application features, setups, workflows, approval rules, business units, accounting structures, and related functional components.
Ensure ERP configurations support organizational policies, financial controls, operational procedures, and applicable business requirements.
Support the design and maintenance of chart of accounts structures, ledgers, cost centers, project structures, business units, and other relevant master data configurations.
Coordinate with Finance and business process owners to maintain accurate accounting rules, transaction controls, and financial processing.
Support procurement processes, including supplier management, requisitioning, purchase orders, approvals, receiving, invoice matching, and payment-related workflows.
Assist with project-related ERP processes, including project setup, budgeting, cost collection, commitments, billing, and project financial reporting.
Support inventory and supply chain processes, including item setup, stock movements, purchasing, receiving, and inventory reconciliation.
Maintain and improve ERP approval workflows to ensure appropriate authorization, accountability, and segregation of duties.
Troubleshoot functional issues, transaction failures, configuration errors, and unexpected system behavior.
Investigate reported incidents, identify root causes, and coordinate resolution with technical teams, Oracle support, vendors, and relevant stakeholders.
Manage ERP incidents, service requests, problem records, and enhancement requests in accordance with established service management procedures.
Prioritize ERP issues based on business impact, urgency, financial exposure, operational disruption, and project delivery requirements.
Provide timely communication to users regarding issue status, workarounds, resolution plans, and system changes.
Maintain ERP system stability and support business-critical operations, including financial close, procurement activities, project reporting, and operational transactions.
Coordinate scheduled ERP maintenance, patching, updates, configuration changes, and release activities with the relevant technical teams.
Assess the impact of Oracle quarterly updates, patches, new features, and changes to existing functionality.
Support regression testing and business validation following Oracle updates and system changes.
Develop and maintain functional specifications, configuration documents, process maps, user guides, and technical support documentation.
Work with Oracle developers and technical specialists to deliver reports, integrations, extensions, and other approved customizations.
Support Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) or other integration tools used to connect Oracle ERP with internal and external systems.
Coordinate ERP integrations with project management, procurement, banking, payroll, document management, reporting, and other enterprise applications.
Analyze integration failures, data mapping issues, interface errors, and transaction reconciliation discrepancies.
Support data migration, data conversion, and data validation activities during implementations, upgrades, and system changes.
Validate ERP master data, transactional data, and migrated records to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and business suitability.
Maintain data quality controls for suppliers, customers, accounts, projects, items, employees, and other relevant ERP entities.
Support Oracle reporting and analytics capabilities, including OTBI, BI Publisher, Oracle Analytics, and other approved reporting tools.
Develop, maintain, and enhance operational, financial, procurement, and project reports in accordance with business requirements.
Validate report logic, data sources, calculations, filters, and output accuracy.
Assist business users in interpreting ERP reports and resolving discrepancies between system outputs and operational records.
Support ERP security administration by coordinating user access, responsibilities, roles, permissions, and approval requirements with IAM and cybersecurity teams.
Ensure ERP access arrangements align with least-privilege principles, segregation of duties, and organizational access governance policies.
Review application access and role assignments when requested by system owners, auditors, or governance stakeholders.
Support internal and external audits involving ERP configurations, financial transactions, system access, change controls, and business process controls.
Maintain evidence of ERP configuration, system changes, approvals, testing, and relevant control activities.
Ensure ERP changes follow established change management procedures, including impact assessment, approval, testing, documentation, and deployment.
Participate in ERP implementation, rollout, upgrade, migration, and business transformation projects.
Support project planning, requirements workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-implementation stabilization.
Coordinate system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression testing, and end-to-end business process validation.
Prepare test scenarios, test scripts, expected results, and defect records.
Work with business users to validate that Oracle ERP solutions meet agreed requirements before production deployment.
Support cutover planning, data reconciliation, deployment readiness, and go-live activities.
Provide post-go-live support and help resolve issues arising during implementation or transition to new functionality.
Deliver user training, demonstrations, knowledge-transfer sessions, and practical guidance on Oracle ERP processes.
Create clear training materials and documentation for employees across Finance, Procurement, Projects, Supply Chain, and other business functions.
Promote consistent use of Oracle ERP and help users adopt approved business processes and system capabilities.
Coordinate with Oracle support, implementation partners, managed service providers, and external consultants on system issues and project deliverables.
Monitor Oracle support cases and ensure technical or functional issues are followed through to resolution.
Evaluate Oracle ERP capabilities and recommend improvements that support organizational strategy, scalability, and operational excellence.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual work through workflow enhancements, standard functionality, integration, automati

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