Chapter Lead - Corporate (People Hub, Finance and Corporate)

Description

• Approve order of magnitude estimates of both cost and resource at Discovery phase, based on high-level scope and requirements. Support project teams in refining those estimates through subsequent phases of the delivery methodology
• Develop, lead and manage a high performing, cost effective and scalable provision of internal and external resource to meet business demands and realise value across Digital Products in the Corporate domain
• Develop the DevOps squad across the corporate domain, including Oracle. Ensure functional and technical support within Digital and Technology, and develop appropriate business operating models in collaboration with CIO functions and each customer area
• Ensure strategic alignment of the Digital Products within the Corporate Domain with the Corporate Plan and the Digital and Technology strategy
• Be accountable for configuration and customisation in line with Oracle best practices across technologies and methodologies
• Provide service and support including service requests, incidents, problem and change, proactively managing performance, availability and resilience
• Be accountable for the strategy and roadmap for Digital Products within the Corporate domain, leveraging technologies and methodologies to enable relevant business plans
• Be accountable for the quarterly releases, identifying any technology or methodology changes that will impact product or business, and champion the approval, prioritisation and adoption of enhancements
• Manage key risks and issues across assigned modules and business areas, establishing risk mitigation or acceptance by accountable stakeholders
• Be accountable for Service performance and change delivery across Digital Products within the Corporate domain
• Influence key decisions at a senior level including Capital spend for large future technology investments made by the Group, ensuring technical information is successfully presented and understood by non-technical audiences, including Executive Directors
• Approve non-functional requirements and be accountable for the reporting of progress, risks and issues across all design, development, test, deployment and warranty phases
• Be accountable for the Audit and compliance of the system, ensuring Oracle good practice is met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and principles across logical access and change management
• Maintain expertise in emerging technologies and trends, particularly around Oracle HCM and ERP / EPM
• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities, undertake other duties when required and participate in an on-call rota if required
• Be accountable for the relationship with Oracle as a vendor through proactive relationships with service, account management and customer success teams, and manage Oracle partners and System Integrators across development and support activities
• Be accountable for the planning and provision of Oracle environments for all support, enhancement and change activities, managed through the Oracle console.
• Be accountable for all information security, including data protection, for all Corporate Products, in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Approve technical design reviews and be accountable for all configuration and customisation, ensuring it follows Oracle and wider industry best practice, and ensuring they are designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained to meet requirements
• Approve testing activities as product owner, ensuring QA standards are met across performance and volume testing, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing

Requirements

• Oracle Fusion HCM or Financials certification
• Experience with Oracle Identity Manager, MS Active Directory, and Identity Propagation
• Experience with Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Demonstrate expertise in advanced programming concepts across PL/SQL and Java technologies
• Broad knowledge of technologies and methodologies across Digital Products, Cyber and Infrastructure
• Experience of managing tier 1 ERP systems such as Oracle
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile and DevOps approaches and methodologies
• Experience of developing Oracle OTBI dashboards and reports
• Be proactive in understanding and leveraging broader product, cyber and infrastructure technologies and methodologies
• Completion of at least two full Oracle Cloud HCM or Financials implementation
• Experience supporting HR functions in Oracle HCM across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud implementations, including key HR concepts, functional guidance and technical build for at least 3 of HCM, Payroll, Absence, Expenses, Learning, Performance, Recruitment
• Knowledge of data migration, integration, test and release strategies in relation to Oracle
• Proven Oracle Cloud knowledge across HCM, Financials or EPM
• Experience of Oracle Cloud delivered Web Services (SOAP & REST)
• Experience with Oracle Cloud SaaS Security
• Experience of developing high-performing teams
• Experience supporting accounting functions in Oracle ERP across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud implementations, including key Financial concepts, functional guidance and technical build for at least 3 of GL, Payables, Receivables, Purchasing, Procurement, Expenses, Asset, Collections, and Cash Management)
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Data Conversion
• Knowledge of the Oracle cloud quarterly release cycle and key activities
• Relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Batchelors Degree or above
• Knowledge of Service methodologies and approaches
• Proven experience of working with Oracle as a vendor, and with an implementation partner

Benefits

• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Competitive pay & generous pension

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance