Description
The Home Office is seeking a Finance Function - Procure to Pay Functional Lead to work in the Financial Control area. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving and assuring the Oracle Finance solution, based on their broad understanding of Oracle Financials Cloud and current industry best practice, to ensure high-quality business solutions.
The Corporate Services Group works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable the department to deliver its priorities. The Metis Commercial and Finance team maintain and develop the Home Office’s modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, centred on Oracle Fusion, covering General Ledger, Procure to Pay and expenses.
The objective of the Metis Commercial and Finance team is to oversee and deliver enhancements to the ERP's functionality and simplify corporate applications for staff.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working with product and delivery managers on prioritisation and resourcing to ensure effective delivery of the Metis Product’s Procure to Pay (Oracle Finance Solution) and expenses priorities.
- Communicating business, functional and technical requirements to stakeholders and others.
- Using insights from stakeholder engagement and data to manage and improve the user experience for staff.
- Acting as the Subject Matter Expert on the Metis system and Oracle Finance solution.
- Enabling and managing change to allow more flexibility, responsiveness and improved service delivery.
- Driving product enhancements, including the quarterly product update.
- Developing and implementing policies and procedures for change control.
- Playing a key role in the Metis Product team as the Procure to Pay function lead.
- Leading the team and providing guidance and coaching.
Person Specification:
- Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent or with extensive financial expertise and working towards qualification.
- Implementing and/or optimising Oracle Financials, preferably in Oracle Cloud.
- Working in a Finance/Debt Management/Procurement role, preferably in the public sector.
- Working independently with minimal supervision.
- Analysing business needs and translating them into requirements and solutions.
- Managing internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrating strong communication skills.
Benefits:
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- In-year reward scheme.
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days.
- Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
- Flexible working arrangements.