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Looking for an Oracle e-Business Suite Functional Analyst with expertise in Supply Chain in a high tech manufacturing environment to play a key role designing, implementing, and extending the applications used at our company. During our initial implementation this role will serve as a partner with the business functional team and the contracted system implementer. Post initial implementation the role will be responsible for steering future deployments, enhancements, and support of the supply chain applications with a primary focus on the global deployment of applications within the e-Business suite and Agile PLM. Core activities will include gathering and defining requirements, configuration of standard applications, gap analysis, functional design of application extensions, and end user support for multiple modules. This role will be responsible for, and have significant influence over a portion of projects in the Application team’s work portfolio.

Job Responsibilities:

Interact with business customers to understand and document their business processes and requirements.
Perform gap analysis to determine e-Business suite system configuration and development changes.
Create business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional design documents, test plans and test cases, user training documents and implementation documents.
Work with the business and development team to design and implement system modifications.
Work with business customers, developers and Oracle Support to research, document and resolve Oracle system issues.
Create SQL queries against Oracle tables to troubleshoot, develop metrics, and create ad-hoc reporting as needed.

Personal Behaviors:

Proactive – display energy and initiative in solving problems. Follow all possible avenues to get the job done.
Adaptable – undertake a variety of tasks willingly. Ability to switch from complex to routine tasks when required. Adapt quickly to new technologies and products. Work effectively with a variety of personalities and work styles.
Quality – demonstrate appropriate quality and thoroughness in your work.
Decisive – ability to make decisions quickly when faced with multiple options. Ability to influence others in decided course of action.
Integrity – act with personal integrity at all times.
Professional – work within your team’s processes. Confront problems, propose solutions and take ownership through to resolution or ensure a clear hand-off. Have a positive can-do approach to work.

Basic Qualifications

Functional knowledge of Oracle e-Business suite release 11i / R12 in a discrete manufacturing environment using a mix of internal and contract manufacturing (multi-site).
A minimum of seven years experience working with Oracle Applications with four years focused on extending and supporting Oracle Applications, specific experience with: Order Management, Shipping Execution, Advanced Pricing, Intercompany transactions, Purchasing, Inventory, Bill of Material applications
Knowledge of the underlying Oracle tables, integration points and technology processes are critical to success in this role.
Experience prioritizing competing demands, scoping efforts and negotiating timelines are necessary skills.
Experience in engaging Oracle Support to research and resolve issues.
Experience with low-level ad-hoc query tools (Toad, SQLPlus) and a working knowledge SQL queries.
Root cause analysis and complex problem solving skills are important.
Experience analyzing data and translating business requirements into technical specifications.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of these modules is preferred: Accounts Receivable, Configurator, MSCA, Discrete Manufacturing suite, Business Intelligence
Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively organize and communicate across functional and technical lines are critical.
Our company is a fast paced, dynamic environment. A strong desire to work in such an environment is an important key to success.
Ability to work independently with limited general supervision.
Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of business customers and drive consensus when conflicting requirements are identified.

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