Lead Financial Analyst (IC2), Global Applications, Financial Reporting Contract Base Data Quality

Group Overview Join the new Central Applications team, driving our $5B+ business through strategic transformation and providing global impact. Focused on ensuring data accuracy as it is critical to inform business decisions and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), creating more agility and faster responses. By identifying regional best practices and scaling them globally, the team ensures innovation is not constrained by past approaches. The organization emphasizes forward-thinking solutions to enhance predictive reporting and analytics, driving business opportunities.   Role Overview

Support the Global Applications Finance (GBF) organization by driving Global top line growth and margin expansion through ensuring accurate total annual bookings and contract base data.  The role reports directly to the Senior Finance Manager and works closely with cross-functional Finance and Operations teams.  As a Lead Financial Analyst, you will execute against our global initiative to centralize in order to scale with the business, innovate, and drive best practice.  As a contributor, you will receive direction and mentoring towards developing a foundation that instills the team’s bias towards action, inclusive collaboration, and positive persistence, while showing grit and determination in the face of obstacles. 

 

Personal Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree with 2+ years finance experience. MBA and Apps experience highly preferred
• Possesses focus, enthusiasm, has a growth mindset, is inquisitive, and has a bias toward improvement
• Develops financial skills by using available new techniques and contributes to the development of new techniques and process improvement
• Proactively seeks assignments and advise contributing to knowledge, skills, and competencies development
• Recognizes differences in communications styles, work styles, and culture as opportunities for learning
• Ability to stay organized, manage time appropriately, and has attention to detail to achieve accuracy and consistency
• Identifies barriers to success, knows to ask for help, and seeks support to solve 
• Tackles problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires review of a variety of factors
• Aptitude to handle increasing complexity with less and less direct guidance
• Proactively assesses business needs and concerns, and customizes approach to drive solutions for those needs and concerns
• Knows where to find, and understands, policy and procedure related to the role
• Identifies trends and developments in competitive environments and presents findings to team and leaders
• Seeks to receive and provide real-time feedback for growth, cultivating a culture of accountability 

 

 

Career Level - IC2

Responsibilities:

• Skilled professional supporting subject matter experts in the Applications business as it relates to financial reporting policy, processes, and systems
• Contributes to ensuring total annual bookings and contract data quality and accuracy of financial reporting to accelerate GBF AI/ML strategy around how we ‘deliver’ finance in the future
• Applies established concepts to perform routine and standard variance analysis with minimal supervision 
• Identifies policy, process and system issues to drive cross-functional transformational efficiencies via simplification, standardization and automation
• Support and participate in various system enhancement, automation, and process improvement initiatives
• Assists in quarter-end activities contributing to Oracle releasing earnings faster than any other company in the S&P 500
• Assists in providing clear and concise total annual bookings status reports into regions on monthly, quarterly and ad hoc basis, using tools to develop and streamline communication to stakeholders across the globe

Other:

• No Relocation 
• Locations: EMEA

 

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