Enterprise Applications Analyst, Sr. Oracle Fusion PPM

** Worker Type
** Regular
* * Job Description
***** Summary
* **** The Sr. Business Analyst (Oracle Fusion Applications – Project and Contracts)
** will align business units (BU) with the Digital Business Team (DBT) to achieve both BU-specific and enterprise-wide objectives. They will drive AV’s Digital Transformation by collaborating with partners to set strategic directions and act as a BU expert, showcasing digital possibilities. The role involves understanding client requirements, mapping them to Oracle PPM Cloud, Oracle Project-Driven Supply Chain, and Contract Management functions, identifying process improvements, and developing future workflows.

Experience in Oracle ERP Cloud, EBS implementation, and Oracle Project-Driven Supply Chain is required.
** Position Responsibilities**
* ** Partners with business units and ensures every business decision is seen from the lens of our customer.**  + Collaborates with partner business units to reimagine how we can deliver the best processes possible using people, process, data, and technology  + Conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.  + Meet with management, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations.  

+ requirements and systems goals and identify and resolve Enterprise Application systems issues.  + Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems for enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow.  + Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems.  + Collaborate in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing Enterprise applications.  

+ Pursues using Oracle Fusion existing and on-going standard processes to minimize customization yet weighing against AV DOD needs and best practice(s).
* ** Acts as the subject matter expert (SME) for designated partner business units**  + Attends designated partner BU meetings and shadows Team Members  + Explains a-day-in-the-life for various roles within partner BU. Gains significant knowledge in subject matters pertaining to both technology and the business  + Serves as a “trusted advisor” to the BU and functions as a key point of contact for BU & DBT business stakeholders  + In conjunction with BU leadership establishes and maintains a three-year business and DBT solution road map to improve strategic planning  + Utilizes business analysis techniques and business cases to define high-level product features and desired service levels for existing and emerging IT offerings  + Develops a deep knowledge of the business partner’s BU and builds positive relationship development, both horizontally and vertically  + Identify business requirements and map them to the Oracle Application functionality.  

+ Identify functionality gaps and develop solutions to them.  + Configure the Oracle Applications to meet client requirements and document application set-ups.
* ** Defines business requirements for designated business units**  + Create business requirement documents for reports, interfaces, data conversions, and application extensions.  + Collaborate with project team members developing reports, interfaces, data conversion programs, and application extensions.  + Define testing scenarios and develop corresponding test scripts.  + Assist clients in executing test scripts.  + Develop end-user documentation and training materials.  + Conduct end-user training sessions.  

+ Communicates with business leadership to evaluate joint initiatives and proposals to see how they align with established roadmaps and business and enterprise priorities  + Demonstrates system (e.g. Oracle Fusion PPM.) capability to solve business problems  + Anticipates bottlenecks and provides escalation management  + Analyzes end-to-end, moderate to high complexity business processes in one or more business functional areas
* ** Collaborates with peers and project managers to balance BU and enterprise level optimization**  + Transfers knowledge on proposed…