Business Analyst – Oracle Financial Applications

Job Summary: Primary responsibilities include supporting the day- to-day operations of several modules of the Oracle 11i E-Business Suite Financial Modules.  Includes working very closely with end users by being the functional area expert for the company's Oracle 11i Applications.

The Company needs a team player with strong communication & customer service skills with the ability to stay on task when working independently. Must be able to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Skills and Experience required for this position:

• Oracle 11i experience required, 5 plus years experience with Oracle Applications.
• 5+ years of experience writing technical and business specifications as well as 5 years business analyst experience.
• BS / BA degree in Accounting and/or MIS.
• Strong problem solving, communication and organization skills required.
• Solid knowledge of flex fields, setup and profile options preferred.
• Experience with executing SQL queries and understanding the underlying structure of the most common Oracle Applications tables a plus. 
• Oracle Workflow, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Discoverer Administrator and Oracle Alerts knowledge a plus.
• Demonstrates competency in verbal, written, and presentation communications and   interpersonal understanding.
• Demonstrated ability to research and understand customer issues.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence in the Information Technology team's knowledge of and concern for the customer's business needs.
• Ability to work with all levels of employees and to influence and impact others.
• Experience in developing others with demonstrated ability to achieve results through  others.
• Demonstrates organization and planning skills that include: project coordination and management, planning and scheduling, time management and the ability to handle multiple deadlines and associated pressures.
• Experience in the adaptation to and the application of rapidly changing technology to business needs.
• Demonstrated business systems understanding and orientation.
• Demonstrated flexibility.
• Ability to develop programs and to conduct training.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Achievement orientation, concern for quality, and a self-starter.
• Previous involvement in a major new development project.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments.
• Superior written and oral communication skills.
• Able to matrix manage, have strong project work and project planning experience.
• Previous experience in a full development life cycle.
• Perform well in a team environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide functional support for the Oracle 11i Financials and Business Suite (See list below)
• Manage Technical Assistance Request (TAR's) with Oracle's Outsourcing Support and Service Delivery Manager to resolution including escalation while retaining ownership of the issues. 
• Lead ongoing development of the Oracle Applications by utilizing functionality to improve business processes.  Includes the upgrade of current modules and implementation of new modules as required. 
• Consult with end-users to analyze and understand needs, objectives, desired features, and input and output requirements. Provide end-user instruction and support to resolve application issues.
• Advise on new solutions for enterprise business applications integration and functionality activation. Understand the impact of process changes and be able to guide process definitions accordingly.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement plans to test business and functional processes and quality assurance testing. Lead functional acceptance testing of patches and upgrades.  Train and document processes.
• Coordinate user accounts for the 11i applications including security, Oracle responsibilities, workflow approvals and system privileges.  Includes set up and support of Oracle designated printers.
• Analyze and solve complex problems, provide documentation, guidance and instruction to users at all levels.
• Coordinate and/or lead projects and department assignments.
• Proactively work with Accounting, IT and internal business partners to provide assistance and advice with the implementation of new or enhanced Oracle financial applications and systems.
• Work with business customers to identify and leverage global processes when possible.
• Provide business systems analysis support for legacy and current systems daily support by managing system issues from discovery to resolution. 
• Work with project leaders to develop project plans that reflect business analysis approach, deliverables and estimates.
• Provide ongoing support to the development team by tracking and resolving issues throughout the life of a project.
• Work with the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that systems functionality meets user requirements.
• Conduct application demonstration sessions.

Oracle Programmer Analyst

Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field

Work Experience:

• Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i - Financials and/or Supply Chain (SCM) products lines - 5+ years
• SQL and PLSQL Programming - 5+ years
• Developer 6i (Forms and Reports) - 5+ years
• SDLC Methodology – 3+ years

General Duties of the Position:

• Under general supervision be able to troubleshoot and resolve issues, both standard and custom applications, within Oracle (EBS) to support the business.
• Based on detailed requirements and specifications have the ability to plan, design, develop, test, tune and document programs to enhance the business.
• Provide guidance and expertise with technologies and methodologies within team to improve the enterprise IT systems performance and functionality.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to apply fundamental concepts of the full development lifecycle including analysis, design, development, and testing within Oracle EBS. 
• Expertise in SQL, PL/SQL, Developer 6i (Forms and Reports), Workflow Builder, XML Publisher, and advancing Oracle tools to produce high quality solutions.
• Aptitude to quickly learn and adapt complimentary technologies and programming languages to advance supported IT systems.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact in user, business analysts, and programmer workgroups.

Essential Functions:

• Develop to detailed specifications following accepted build standards.
• Thoroughly unit tests all deliverables against business requirements.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues as required.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for SDLC via Oracle Applications Implementation Methodology (AIM) as well as for Change Management purposes.
• Maintain and support production applications in accordance with established service level agreements.
• Initiate and conduct development design and peer reviews.
• Provide or adjust scripts, tools and utilities essential to building and deploying developed modules.
• Prepare solution recommendations and estimates for new, changed, or maintained functionality.
• Complete understanding of Oracle EBS architecture and underlying table structures.
• Demonstrate proficiency in SQL, PLSQL, Developer 6i (Forms, Reports), Workflow Builder, JDeveloper and advancing Oracle development tools.
• Provide technical support and impact analysis of system patches.

Non-Essential Functions:

• Focus to work independently or share role and expertise within team.
• Participate and present within cross-functional teams to determine future application features and architecture.
• Familiar with Mercury Quality Center
• Experience with JDeveloper/Java
• Experience with Demantra demand planning
• Knowledge and experience with OAFramework
• Experience with Unix shell and Perl scripting
• Experience with Discoverer
• Experience with Version Control guidelines

Senior Project Manager

General Duties of the Position:

• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge of Project Management methodology.  Fully demonstrate proficiency in Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing processes. 
• Demonstrates initiative and action in setting and achieving objectives.  Motivates team members and stakeholders to achieve project goals.  Leads project teams, provides mentoring and coaching of team members and of other project managers. 
• Maintains the highest levels of professionalism and integrity.  Meets commitments and takes accountability for deliverables.
• Displays superior analytical and conceptual thinking, and problem-solving abilities. 
• Displays an understanding of the formal and informal structure of the organization and uses this understanding to influence support to accomplish the goals and objectives of the program/project. 
• Displays strong ERP skills in an Oracle environment.
• Displays strong experience in Supply/Logistics environment.

• Defines, plans, directs, and coordinates activities to deliver assigned projects within the approved scope, schedule and cost.  Identifies, assesses, and manages project risk.  Ensures project scope schedule and cost are controlled through the Change Management process.  Manages multiple projects of varying complexity simultaneously.  Accountable for adherence to the Project Management Methodology and the software development lifecycle

REQUIREMENTS:  At least 5 years of experience as a Project Manager and PMP Certified.  Looking for strong ERP experience with Oracle implementation. Will need experience in the Supply/Logistics environment (Only candidates with these requirements will be considered).

TASK LIST:
1.  Project Integration Management – Develops project initiation and business case documents.  Develops a project management plan, directs project execution, monitors and controls project work, and manages integrated change control in accordance with the project management methodology.  Manages multiple projects simultaneously.

2.  Project Scope Management – Conducts scope planning and definition, creates a project Work Breakdown Structure and controls scope changes throughout the project lifecycle in accordance with the project management methodology

3.  Project Schedule Management – Defines project activities, estimates work, duration and resources, and develops project schedule.  Defines critical path and resources.  Maintains and controls project schedule throughout project lifecycle in accordance with the project management methodology.

4.  Project Cost Management – Estimates project costs, and manages approved project budget.  Controls project cost throughout lifecycle in accordance with the project management methodology.

5.  Project Quality Management – Develops project quality plan, manages project quality assurance, testing, and acceptance.  Controls project quality.

6.  Project Human Resources Management – Identifies project resource requirements, coordinates with resource managers to allocate resources and manage resource availability.  Provides performance feedback to resource managers and project team members.

7.  Project Communications Management – Identifies project stakeholders and develops communication plan.  Provides status reports to PMO, conducts Team and Steering Committee meetings in accordance with the project management methodology.  Communicates status, requirements, and other key information to stakeholders as required.

Project Risk Management – Identifies, assesses, and prioritizes project risks.  Develops risk management plan, including appropriate mitigation, response, and monitoring and control plans.  Develops project risk contingency in schedule and budget.

Project Procurement Management – Plans project purchases and acquisitions.  Develops and evaluates RFP/RFQs.  Selects vendors, negotiates SOWs in accordance with master terms and conditions.  Administers contracts, ensures fulfillment of contract terms.  Initiates purchase orders, tracks and reconciles invoices.

Senior SAN and UNIX Systems Adminstrator

Education:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

General Duties of the Position:
Senior distributed operating systems/ storage engineer with at least nine years of professional experience capable of independent administration of SAN infrastructure. This job requires a mixture of architecture, engineering, and support for both storage and UNIX technology. Qualified candidates will have worked in both a UNIX and storage (SAN, NAS) support role, and have highly developed troubleshooting and analytical skills.

This position will be responsible for developing, configuring, installing, and maintaining AIX/Solaris server hardware and Operating Systems in a mixed environment. The position requires a high level of technical abilities to support corporate data center and engineering initiatives. In a fast paced global environment the Systems Administrator will participate in company wide projects by assisting in the project plans, documentation, and execution of project tasks. Will provide support for engineering development environments including licensing, version control and tools. Will provide primary AIX/Solaris support and be responsible for all daily system maintenance tasks.

SAN Engineering/Administration (35%):

• SAN Switch configuration and upgrades (Cisco).
• Must possess practical skills required for configuration and management of enterprise-class disk arrays, particularly EMC’s Clariion.
• EMC Clariion devices (currently Clariion arrays: CX700, and CX3-80).
• Zoning and masking.
• Should be able to discuss and perform the steps needed to present provisioned space to a host, and when and how it can be done "hot" (without reboot).
• Must be adept at identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks and making performance-related recommendations [hardware, software, and configuration].
• Knowledge of replication technologies and server migration strategies.
• Proper configuration of hosts with redundant paths.

Solaris Administration (40%):
The following is Sun-Solaris centric, however, the best fit for the team is someone who is also AIX oriented. We're 90 percent Solaris, but AIX use is expanding. Strong AIX skills may substitute for Sun Solaris if the candidate is well qualified in other areas.

• Familiarity with Sun hardware is a must. At a minimum, the individual should be at ease installing new servers, adding or removing disks, PCI cards, and memory.
• In depth knowledge of Veritas Volume manager is a must.
• SUN Cluster and/or Veritas Cluster required.
• All aspects of Solaris builds, upgrades, hot disk replacement, jumpstart, including up through Solaris 10. Should have experience building x86 Solaris servers in addition to SPARC.
• Performance tuning.
• Previous experience with clustering, failover/recovery and load balancing strategies is required.
• Experience with Tomcat Application Server desired

AIX Administration (25%):

• Familiarity with IBM pSeries hardware is a must. At a minimum, the individual should be at ease installing new servers, adding or removing disks, PCI cards and memory.
• Expertise in AIX Volume Management (LVM) and integration with enterprise storage.
• Previous experience with HACMP clustering, failover/recovery and load balancing strategies is required.
• All aspects of AIX builds utilizing NIM, upgrades, hot disk replacement, including 5.1 up through version 5.3.
• Performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Experience with Websphere Application Server desired

Position Competencies

•  Experience with Active Directory and LDAP desirable.
• Technical lead for the installation and maintenance of hardware products and operating system versions.
• Technical lead for the enterprise-wide implementation of new system management, monitoring and planning tools or processes.
• Leads/guides ongoing efforts for system management, monitoring, and planning across enterprise.  Serves as point of escalation and review for issues or concerns identified.
• Performs life-cycle planning for systems by reviewing historical performance and projecting future needs from production implementation through system retirement.  Performs trade-off analysis to support recommendations concerning upgrades and replacements.
• Identifies and implements opportunities for improved system utilization through effective management and consolidation strategies.
• Identifies implementation-specific methods, controls and quality assurance criteria that must be met when systems are migrated into the production environment.
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills.  Should be comfortable making presentations to customer, client audiences, or professional peers while working closely with management.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them.
• Ability to identify and implement standardized processes across the operating environment.
• A solid understanding of the target operating system (i.e. UNIX).  Understand system resource management (i.e. paging and swapping), inter-process communications, device management, hardware/OS interface, and file system concepts.  Can use performance analysis to tune systems.
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts, principles of routing, client/server programming, and the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts.
• Knowledgeable about all aspects of systems administration.  For example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printing systems, fundamentals of security, installing third-party software.
• Experience with Oracle 9i RDBMS, Oracle 9i and 10G Application Server (OC4J and Oracle HTTP Server), Oracle 9iAS and 10G Infrastructure installation and configuration, and Oracle Portal environments is a plus.

UNIX Systems Administrator

Education:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

General Duties of the Position:
The position of UNIX System Administrator II will work in a team environment administering different flavors of UNIX in both application development and production support.  This position will be responsible for configuring, installing, and maintaining AIX/Solaris server hardware and Operating Systems in a mixed environment. The position requires a high level of technical abilities to support corporate data center initiatives. In this fast paced environment the Systems Administrator will participate in companywide projects by assisting in the project plans, documentation, and execution of project tasks. This position will provide primary AIX/Solaris support and be responsible for all daily AIX/Solaris system maintenance tasks in a 24/7 production environment.

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, and administer Solaris and AIX servers.
• All aspects of system builds, upgrades, hot disk replacement, including hardware racking.
• Performance tuning.
• Responsible for planning and performing operating system changes.
• Review capacity planning and performance monitoring of servers and applications.
• Coordinate the implementation of approved changes.
• Work after hours as required and participate in on-call rotation.
• Manage small to medium infrastructure projects.
• Monitor systems at multiple Data Center facilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience in a large, corporate data center environment performing

UNIX Systems Administration of high-end production servers.

• Expertise in system hardware and software installation, tuning, capacity planning, and maintenance.
• Experience with enterprise storage and SAN solutions.
• Must possess broad and deep technical knowledge and experience in at least two of the following operating systems: Solaris 9, Solaris 10, Solaris 10 x86, AIX 5.x, or Linux Red Hat Advanced Server.
• Experience with Veritas, Veritas NetBackup, Sun Cluster, or HACMP desired.
• Experience creating and maintaining UNIX Shell and Perl scripts.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP and other Internet protocols.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Data Center infrastructure and facility knowledge a plus.
• Experience with vendors on maintenance and upgrades of data center equipment.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• Experience with LDAP is a plus.
• Experience with WebSphere environments a plus.
• Previous experience with clustering, failover/recovery and load balancing strategies is a plus.

Qualified applicants must have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent and a strong background in UNIX server administration (3-5 years).  The ideal candidate will have wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways and is able to interact between sites, departments and various levels of management.

Advaned Cisco Engineer

This is a hands-on Cisco router expert role working within a large enterprise-wide WAN environment where one must have a complete knowledge and understanding of the entire WAN.  A hands-on and written test will be administered prior to forwarding any offers thus the successful applicant will have to prove their Cisco knowledge up front.
Primary Responsibilities

• Maintaining the day to day operations of the client’s Wide Area Network (WAN).
• The engineer will be working as a member of the Telecommunication team in managing all of the WAN based network assets for the client, which consists primarily of Cisco Systems devices. 
• Work closely with IT leadership to plan and efficiently resolve all network, connectivity and security issues, ensuring smooth migrations with minimal downtime.

Requirements

• CCNA  & CCNP Cisco certification required
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience supporting and maintaining a high-performance, stable Enterprise Wide Network.
• Propose and recommend best practices for network reliability, scalability, redundancy, and availability.
• Plan, configure, and troubleshoot Gigabit Ethernet/Fiber backbone on Cisco 6509 switches
• Advanced configuration knowledge of Cisco Switches and Routers including but not limited to 2900, 3500, 3700, 4500, 6500 series hardware.
• Experience with a wide variety of internal and external routing protocols, such as BGP4, OSPF, EIGRP, etc.  Experience with IPSEC and MPLS desired.
• Experience executing tests and troubleshooting WAN and WAN/LAN interfaces to verify requirements
• Analyze network data and troubleshoot complex network problems using creative application of available technologies.
• Isolate and replacing failing routers and issues
• Develop and document project plans for network infrastructure implementations
• Documentation of data networks (including diagrams)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and Microsoft Visio, a must. 

Key Accountabilities

• Performs simple tasks with limited guidance.
• Solves moderately complex problems with limited supervision.
• Ability to learn and take on new responsibilities.
• Contributes to the team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to articulate to peers, and management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, excellent work ethics.
• Strong commitment to the team and the organization's success
• Solid core value performance

IT Analyst

Essential Job Functions

• Delivers technological requirements such as server, desktop, local service, Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, data centers, mainframes, small server configuration, and backup services for small technology engagements, to meet business needs.
• Provides technical expertise and guidance; participates in design reviews; validates technology approach and associated work products on small projects to ensure adherence to company guidelines.
• Captures technical requirements and defines technology solutions; creates the conceptual, logical and physical design of the solution to ensure appropriate technology is acquired and implemented.
• Collaboratively works with team members, on-site consultants, partners, companies, third parties, and clients to define, develop and deploy technology solutions on small projects or engagements.
• Assists client in defining strategic technology direction for solution. Provides input in selecting business application packages and vendors.
• Evaluates technologies and determines strengths and weaknesses of technology architecture, implementation and suitability; recommends solutions to ensure consistency with the company vision.
• Works on project life cycle from requirements through design, implementation, and support to ensure implementation of appropriate technology in every stage.
• Researches technological advancements to ensure that information systems are continuously improved and aligned with industry and company standards; designs and provides updates to standards to enhance company solutions.
• Researches technology improvements to bring efficiency to current Service Solutions.

Will Administer Engineer Review Board for RTP.
Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, or related field preferred
• Seven or more years of technical consulting or computer science experience
• Experience working with technology industry and architecture
• Experience working with technical products, vendors, and families of technology
• Experience working with mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
• Experience working with project management methodology such as Catalyst including budget development, project planning, control and assurance methodologies, project management software and finance and accounting knowledge

Other Qualifications

• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Good communication skills to communicate with clients, support personnel, and management
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Good interpersonal skills to communicate with clients and management
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Willingness to travel

Global SAP Program Manager

The Global SAP Project Manager will manage and lead all aspects of various SAP implementation projects; including overall responsibility for deliverable management, staff management, budget and project governance. The Global SAP Project Manager will also be responsible for the integrity of the overall solution design and integration, control-related standards and procedures.
Position Requirements

• 15 Years business experience
• Minimum BS/BA with 5 years project management experience
• Experience in managing complex project schedules, task dependencies and downstream activities
• Experience in managing global SAP Implementation Projects
• Must have been the lead project manager for at least 3 full-term SAP projects
• Minimum 10 years of SAP experience
• Experience in change management and IT financial control and analysis.
• Experience in ASAP, Agile or equivalent implementation methodologies.
• PMP certification preferred
• Must be Results Oriented, Quality and Process Oriented, Highly Organized, and a Proficient Project Manager with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced Project Management experience required.
• Excellent leadership skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilizes project management skills of communication, presentation, time management, risk management, cost control/budget management, organization and planning to successfully implement SAP within VF.
• Sets project expectations concerning deliverables, project performance, Integration Partner task assignments, costs and time frames
• Responsible for managing budget, change requests and communicating financial status and project activities to project team members and project stakeholders.
• Manages all project resources to perform tasks according to plan.
• Serves as primary project escalation point for issues; resolves conflicts involving scheduling, resources, or technical project issues
• Ensure all project testing is completed adhering to the testing methodology.
• Prepares and submits weekly project status reports to project stakeholders.
• Conducts project closeout with Project Stakeholders to obtain agreement of completed deliverable.