Senior Implementation Lead A2R/EPM

Job description

Are you an experienced Oracle Finance professional who enjoys turning complex finance transformation into practical solutions?

We're looking for a Senior Implementation Lead - A2R to join our growing team, supporting clients through Oracle Finance and EPM implementations. You'll have an important role in designing, implementing and optimising finance processes across Oracle Fusion and Oracle EPM environments, working with senior finance stakeholders to help organisations realise the value of their Oracle investment.

You'll act as a trusted adviser to clients, leading workshops, challenging existing ways of working and delivering solutions aligned with finance best practice. You'll bring a strong understanding of the end-to-end A2R cycle and be comfortable working with Finance Directors, Heads of Finance, Financial Controllers and operational finance teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the design and delivery of Oracle A2R and EPM workstreams across multiple client engagements.
• Facilitate workshops to understand business requirements and translate them into Oracle solutions.
• Advise clients on finance processes and operating models, supporting standardisation and continuous improvement.
• Drive solution design across General Ledger, Period End Close, Financial Reporting and Reconciliations.
• Provide subject matter expertise across Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, while supporting testing, training, deployment and hypercare.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to capability development across the practice.

What you'll bring:

• Significant experience working within Finance, ERP, Shared Services or Consulting environments.
• Strong knowledge of A2R processes, including General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Period End Close, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Journals and Adjustments, Fixed
• Assets, Intercompany Accounting, and Financial Controls and Governance.
• Hands-on experience delivering Oracle Fusion Financials implementations.
• Strong Oracle EPM experience, ideally across Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Reporting and Performance Management.
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging with senior finance stakeholders.
• The ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.

It would be great if you had:

• An accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA, or equivalent finance experience.
• Public Sector and NHS experience.

If you're interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Anywhere
Security Clearance Level: BPSS
Internal Recruiter: Alex
Salary: Upto £55,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We havepartnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us knowwhen completingyour application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.