Oracle Senior Analyst - Financial (Open to Remote)

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion, or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work are accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding .

Background:

Project Insight is CRS' initiative to improve Finance, Human Resources, and Supply Chain functions, supported by Oracle technology. Improved processes will make CRS more efficient, and using timely, accurate data for decision-making will make CRS more effective. By equipping our staff with tools for better stewardship, Insight will help us to better meet the needs of those we serve. To maximize the business and technology return on investment from the implementation of an integrated solution for Finance, Human Resources, and Supply Chain, CRS has established a Center of Excellence (COE) to govern, manage, and maintain the systems and processes addressed by Project Insight .

Job Summary:

This position performs ongoing tasks related to clearing exceptions across the Oracle Cloud Fusion (Insight) financial platforms throughout the month, allowing accurate and timely data flow throughout the application. This position also performs month-end closure system-required processes in all sub-ledgers and clearing related errors, warnings, and exceptions.

• Regularly runs and checks Oracle General Ledger (GL) and Cash Management (CM) and Fixed Assets Management (FA) Sub-ledgers reports throughout the month to ensure that the errors, warnings, and exceptions are cleared timely.
• Performs month-end closure system-required processes in General Ledger (GL) and Cash Management and Fixed Assets Management Sub-ledgers and work with users to clear errors, warnings, and exceptions.
• Supports the Projects Business Process Owner in investigating the cause(s) of each unprocessed cost in Project Portfolio Management Module (PPM) and clearing them to ensure smooth month-end closure.
• Runs create accounting in Cash Management and Fixed Assets Management Sub-ledgers and resolves the resulting exceptions.
• E nsures full reconciliation of data and data quality between General Ledger and other sub-ledgers (SCM, EEM, AR, PPM, AP, FA, CM) by clearing all exceptions during the import processes.
• Ensures escalation of complex exceptions to the BPOs and others for resolution.
• Regularly investigates and clears the exceptions coming from the sub-ledger interfaces such as ePBCS to ERP etc.
• Follows up on the outstanding actions to ensure that General Ledger (GL) and Cash Management and Fixed Assets Management Sub-ledgers are fully closed at each month-end (there are no pending close periods).
• Selects relevant information from a variety of sources in order to prepare documents, reports, summaries, and replies to inquiries, ensuring accuracy and proper format of the information provided.
• Keeps track of assigned tasks in order to ensure compliance with established deadlines.
• Provides accurate and timely status updates.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities - None

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Global Finance Division, Regional Finance Officers, GKIM, Finance, SCM, Finance Solutions Architect, and HR Oracle Business Process Owners (BPOs)

External: Oracle Corporation, System Integrating consultants, and other External Consultants .

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Good project management and change management skills with proven ability to coordinate and manage several significant projects at once.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, strong systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor degree in Business Administration (BA) or Management Information Systems (MIS) or certification programs received from Oracle. Ability to grasp and understand the organization and Oracle functionality
• Minimum 3-5 years of operational understanding of higher-level financial, business process development, and information systems concepts.
• Excellent communication skills; oral and written.
• Competence to review, interpret, and evaluate complex technical issues.
• Attention to detail and the ability to read and follow directions is extremely important.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and other common software applications. Database management intermediate skills preferred.
• Proven commitment and competence to provide excellent customer service; positive and flexible
• Ability to work in a team environment and maintain a professional disposition
• Willingness to work flexible work hours.