Senior Oracle Business Analyst, Finance

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Oracle Business Analyst, Finance based in the United States. We are seeking an experienced Senior Oracle Business Analyst to optimize financial systems, strengthen business processes, and support the ongoing evolution of Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP. In this role, you will serve as a key link between Finance and IT, translating business needs into effective technical solutions. You will oversee system configuration, investigate data discrepancies, and ensure the reliability of financial data flows across integrated platforms. You will also lead quarterly update testing, coordinate user acceptance testing, and drive continuous improvements to system performance and usability. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you will contribute to system enhancements, reporting initiatives, integrations, and strategic projects. This remote opportunity is ideal for an analytical, solutions-oriented professional who combines advanced SQL expertise with strong business analysis and stakeholder management skills. Accountabilities • Oracle Fusion Cloud support and optimization: Provide day-to-day functional support for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, acting as a subject matter expert and second-level support resource. Resolve user issues, manage help desk tickets, maintain post-implementation action logs, and oversee configuration updates in production environments. • Finance and IT collaboration: Serve as the primary liaison between Finance and IT, gathering business needs, translating them into technical requirements, and ensuring Oracle solutions remain aligned with evolving financial processes and business priorities. • System maintenance and service requests: Manage service requests with Oracle, monitor progress through resolution, and coordinate the implementation of system fixes, enhancements, and configuration changes. • Process improvement: Analyze existing financial workflows, identify inefficiencies, recommend process improvements, and optimize Oracle functionality to enhance operational efficiency and data accuracy. • Quarterly updates and regression testing: Lead testing activities associated with Oracle's quarterly releases, assess new features and enhancements, coordinate regression testing, and help ensure smooth deployment with minimal disruption to business operations. • Testing and quality assurance: Participate in functional unit testing and lead or coordinate system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT), including test planning, test-case development, defect tracking, and resolution. • Requirements gathering and documentation: Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder meetings, and process reviews to translate business needs into functional specifications, user stories, process maps, and technical documentation. • Solution design and configuration: Review and approve functional and technical design specifications, application configuration guides, and system requirements. Lead configuration, conversion, integration, and reporting design and testing activities. • SQL analysis and data integrity: Write and optimize complex SQL queries to analyze, validate, and reconcile Oracle-related data flows. Investigate data mapping and transformation across integrated systems and resolve discrepancies in collaboration with technical teams. • Cross-functional integrations and reporting: Partner with internal teams to address complex system issues, support new integrations, improve reporting capabilities, and contribute to special projects involving financial applications and data flows. • Application adoption and stakeholder engagement: Support solution adoption through demonstrations, training, UAT readiness, and knowledge transfer. Collaborate with stakeholders throughout OneStream application development and configuration, gathering feedback and supporting successful releases. Requirements • Professional experience: At least 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst, preferably supporting enterprise financial systems and complex business processes. • Oracle Fusion Cloud expertise: Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, ideally within Oracle Financials, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), procure-to-pay, and order-to-cash processes. • Advanced SQL proficiency: Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, common table expressions (CTEs), window functions, aggregation, and query optimization across large datasets. • Business analysis and requirements management: Proven experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements through functional specifications, process maps, user stories, and system documentation. • Testing and production support: Experience with regression testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, production support, and help desk processes. • Data management and reconciliation: Demonstrated ability to perform data mapping, validation, transformation analysis, and reconciliation across integrated systems. • Oracle updates and reporting: Familiarity with Oracle Fusion quarterly update cycles and reporting tools such as BI Publisher, OTBI, or Financial Reporting Studio (FRS) is preferred. • Implementation and upgrade experience: Previous participation in an Oracle Fusion implementation, migration, or upgrade is an advantage. • Project delivery methodologies: Familiarity with the software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile practices, and collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence. • Industry knowledge: Experience in e-commerce, retail, supply chain, logistics, or similarly fast-paced operational environments is desirable. • Education: A bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. • Communicat