Oracle Financials Senior Functional Analyst

Our Purpose

Working in Partnership for a happier world – our shared Purpose that guides us in everything we do and inspires 3 important principles; happier people, happier business, happier world. The John Lewis Partnership is a truly unique business, one that seeks to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone.

At a glance

• We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The role could be based at either our Bracknell or London campus, depending on your preference.

• The salary range for this role is set at £57,000 - £85,500.

• This position is a permanent contract.

• Please note, internally this role is known as ‘Functional Manager, Finance & Procurement’.

About the role

Are you ready to take on a brand new role as an Oracle Financials Senior Functional Analyst for system transformation in the Finance & Procurement (F&P) domains? This unique position involves functionally designing and implementing major system deployments and cloud adoption, supporting the F&P chapter of the Partnership plan. 

Key responsibilities include providing functional supervision and execution across multiple technologies on various F&P projects, with a particular focus on Oracle Financials. This will include requirement gathering, documentation, design, proof of concept, build, test, deploy, performance, security, and support; this role demands a wide range of skills. Expertise in accounting practice, procurement and risk, treasury and VAT is required to create practical business and technology solutions.

This role manages F&P functionally across diverse technology stacks including Oracle Financials, Coupa and Didos.

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Essential skills you’ll need 

● Strong Oracle Financials Senior Functional Analyst, having managed functional reform of a large enterprise ideally including cloud adoption, in either the A2R, O2C or S2S domains, with business, change & functional expertise

● Expertise in Oracle eBusiness Suite schema. Comfortable acting in a techno-functional hybrid role

● Experienced in providing functional options for business plans, business cases & exception reports

● Senior experience of design, build & test phases

● Experience managing across multiple technologies on more than one project

● Expertise in designing for performance, security & supportability

● Matrix Delivery Management

● Knowledge of Accounting Practice, Procurement & Risk, Treasury & VAT

● Financial Control expertise

● Process mapping / metrics definition

● Experience of running database queries

Desirable

● Coupa

● Didos

● Cloud Deployment

● Robotic Process Automation (Blue Prism)

● Ab Initio

● Web Methods

Benefits of the Partnership and the role

• 💻 - Hybrid Working

• 🏖️ - Full time working holiday entitlement of 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays (this is prorated for part time hours)

• ⚖ - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

• 🐷 - Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not

• 🤑 - You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That’s 25% off in John Lewis (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose (some exclusions apply). You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount

• 🚴 -  Simple cycle to work support scheme

• 🏰 - We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them

• 💗 - Health Care cover 

• 🌱 -  Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit - ttps://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Next Steps 

• The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend that you apply early.

• You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you. 

• Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP. 

• Please be aware that due to the nature and activities of this role, all successful candidates will have a DBS check carried out on them through a 3rd party registered body. For more details on DBS checks and what these entail, please visit the Government website. A financial probity check will also need to be completed for this role.

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