Senior Oracle ERP Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Oracle ERP Specialist

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, commercial excellence, operational efficiency, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership to support business operations, maintain accurate enterprise data, improve financial visibility, and ensure effective project and resource management.

We leverage enterprise technology and integrated business systems to streamline workflows, strengthen internal controls, improve reporting accuracy, and support informed decision-making across our organization.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Oracle ERP Specialist to manage, support, optimize, and enhance our Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment. The successful candidate will provide senior-level functional and technical expertise across Oracle ERP applications, business process configuration, system integrations, reporting, data management, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

This role will work closely with Finance, Procurement, Project Management, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Commercial, and IT teams to ensure Oracle ERP solutions align with business requirements, support construction project operations, maintain data integrity, and deliver reliable enterprise-wide services. The ideal candidate combines strong Oracle ERP knowledge with analytical thinking, stakeholder management, process improvement, and practical experience supporting complex business environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize Oracle ERP applications supporting enterprise-wide business operations.
• Provide senior-level functional and technical support for Oracle ERP modules and related enterprise applications.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective Oracle ERP configurations and system solutions.
• Support the implementation, enhancement, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Oracle ERP systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify system requirements, operational challenges, and opportunities for automation.
• Evaluate existing ERP workflows and recommend improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy, transparency, and control.
• Support Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and relevant Oracle E-Business Suite environments, depending on the organization's system architecture.
• Configure and maintain Oracle ERP modules in accordance with approved business requirements and system governance standards.
• Support financial management processes, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, cash management, and financial reporting.
• Assist with configuring and maintaining procurement and purchasing processes within Oracle ERP.
• Support supplier registration, supplier records, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, and purchasing controls.
• Maintain ERP workflows supporting sourcing, supplier management, contract administration, and procurement operations.
• Support inventory management, stock control, warehouse operations, and materials tracking within Oracle ERP.
• Assist with supply chain planning, order management, inventory movements, and material availability reporting.
• Support project accounting, project costing, budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation processes.
• Help configure ERP processes for construction projects, project expenditure, cost tracking, commitments, and financial performance monitoring.
• Support the integration of project management and commercial processes with relevant Oracle ERP modules.
• Assist with monitoring project budgets, actual expenditure, committed costs, and variances through ERP reporting.
• Work with Finance and Project Management teams to improve the accuracy of project financial information.
• Support the management of cost centers, business units, chart of accounts, accounting periods, and financial dimensions.
• Maintain appropriate configurations for tax rules, payment terms, approval limits, accounting structures, and transaction controls.
• Assist with period-end and year-end closing activities involving Oracle ERP.
• Troubleshoot financial posting errors, reconciliation discrepancies, transaction failures, and accounting configuration issues.
• Support accounts payable and receivable workflows to improve invoice processing, payment accuracy, collection tracking, and reconciliation.
• Coordinate with Finance teams to resolve ERP-related issues affecting financial statements and management reporting.
• Support fixed asset accounting, asset capitalization, depreciation calculations, transfers, disposals, and asset reconciliation.
• Assist with implementing and maintaining ERP controls for expense management, employee reimbursements, and financial approvals.
• Support Human Resources and payroll-related ERP integrations where applicable.
• Assist with employee records, organizational structures, cost allocations, and other HR-related enterprise data processes where configured.
• Maintain accurate organizational hierarchies, business units, departments, and reporting structures within the ERP environment.
• Review and maintain approval hierarchies, delegated authorities, and workflow rules in accordance with organizational policies.
• Configure and troubleshoot ERP notifications, approval routing, automated tasks, and transaction workflows.
• Investigate system errors, failed transactions, performance issues, and unexpected application behavior.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions for recurring Oracle ERP incidents.
• Provide second- and third-level support for complex ERP incidents and service requests.
• Monitor system performance, application availability, scheduled processes, batch jobs, and critical integrations.
• Coordinate with Oracle administrators, database specialists, infrastructure teams, and external support providers to resolve technical issues.
• Support Oracle ERP environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Assist with environment refreshes, configuration migration, patching, upgrades, and release management activities.
• Review Oracle quarterly updates, new features, deprecated functionality, and relevant product changes.
• Assess the impact of Oracle updates on existing configurations, integrations, reports, workflows, and business processes.
• Coordinate regression testing and business validation before deploying system changes.
• Maintain system configuration documentation, functional specifications, technical notes, and operational procedures.
• Develop and maintain functional design documents, business process maps, configuration workbooks, and requirements traceability records.
• Support the development and maintenance of Oracle ERP reports, dashboards, extracts, and analytical tools.
• Use appropriate Oracle reporting capabilities, such as OTBI, BI Publisher, and related analytics tools, where applicable.
• Develop or support SQL-based data analysis and reporting activities within authorized environments.
• Validate report outputs against source transactions, accounting records, and approved business rules.
• Support management reporting for financial performance, procurement activity, project expenditure, inventory, and operational efficiency.
• Identify data quality issues, inconsistent records, duplicate entries, and incomplete ERP information.
• Coordinate data cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and correction activities with relevant business owners.
• Support master data governance for suppliers, customers, employees, inventory items, projects, chart-of-account segments, and other ERP records.
• Establish and maintain data validation rules and controls to improve accuracy and consistency.
• Assist with ERP data migration, conversion, mapping, reconciliation, and validation during implementations or system changes.
• Prepare migration templates, validate source data, investigate conversion errors, and document migration results.
• Support the implementation of data governance procedures and master data ownership responsibilities.
• Maintain appropriate controls over sensitive financial, employee, supplier, customer, and project information.
• Support role-based access control and segregation-of-duties requirements within Oracle ERP.
• Review user roles, responsibilities, privileges, and access assignments in collaboration with IT Security and business process owners.
• Assist with periodic user access reviews and remediation of excessive or inappropriate permissions.
• Ensure ERP access is granted, modified, and revoked in accordance with approved authorization procedures.
• Support audit requests involving ERP configurations, transaction records, approval histories, access controls, and financial processes.
• Prepare supporting documentation and evidence for internal audits, external audits, and compliance assessments.
• Help ensure Oracle ERP processes comply with organizational policies, applicable UAE requirements, contractual obligations, and relevant accounting standards.
• Identify control weaknesses, workflow gaps, and configuration risks that could affect financial integrity or operational compliance.
• Recommend and implement appropriate corrective actions to strengthen ERP governance and reduce operational risk.
• Maintain audit trails and ensure changes to critical ERP configurations are properly authorized and documented.