Lead, Oracle EBS Applications (Philippines)

Job Description

Cruise Administration Services Inc. (CASI), a Carnival Cruise Line entity in the Philippines currently has a Lead, Oracle EBS Applications role available. Only candidates located in the Philippines to apply.

Job Summary:

The Oracle EBS Applications Lead is responsible for the functional support, governance, and continuous improvement of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Financials across key modules including Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Purchasing (PO), Fixed Assets (FA), and Cash Management (CE). This role partners closely with Accounting and broader Finance stakeholders to ensure efficient transaction processing, data integrity, and compliance with internal controls.

In addition to strong functional ownership, the role requires a working understanding of Oracle EBS architecture, configurations, and cross-module data flows to effectively troubleshoot issues, support integrations, and collaborate with technical teams. The position provides day-to-day production support, manages user access and security, and contributes to system enhancements and Oracle-related initiatives. It ensures business requirements are translated into scalable system solutions through structured testing, documentation, and cross-functional coordination.

Key Accountabilities:

Production Support

• Provide day-to-day functional support across Oracle EBS Financial modules, ensuring stability and accuracy of end-to-end finance processes.
• Troubleshoot transactional and system issues across modules (AP, GL, PO, FA, CE), including root cause analysis involving data, configuration, and integrations.
• Support key finance processes such as procure-to-pay, record-to-report, asset lifecycle management, and cash reconciliation.
• Monitor issue queues and service tickets, ensuring timely resolution and minimal business disruption.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, including subledger to GL reconciliation.
• Assist Finance teams with reconciliations, data corrections, and process validation.
• Ensure system readiness and data accuracy for financial reporting cycles.

User Access & Security Administration

• Manage user provisioning, role assignments, and responsibility structures within Oracle EBS.
• Ensure compliance with SOX and segregation of duties (SoD) requirements across financial modules.
• Perform periodic access reviews and support audit requests.
• Understand role-based access design and its impact across integrated modules and financial data.

Testing & Change Management

• Lead and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for patches, enhancements, and Oracle-related projects.
• Validate configurations, cross-module impacts, and integrations to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Partner with IT to support deployments, with awareness of dependencies, release cycles, and potential downstream impacts.

Business Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with Finance stakeholders across AP, GL, Procurement, Treasury, and Fixed Assets to identify improvement opportunities.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications with consideration of system capabilities and constraints.

• Drive standardization and optimization of end-to-end financial processes within Oracle EBS.

Documentation & Training

• Maintain process documentation, user guides, and training materials across financial modules.
• Deliver training to end users, incorporating both process flows and system functionality.
• Ensure effective knowledge transfer for system changes and enhancements.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Support internal and external audits related to financial systems and processes.
• Ensure adherence to corporate policies, data governance standards, and internal controls.

• Participate in control design and monitoring across Oracle EBS Financials.

Project Participation

• Act as a functional SME across Oracle Financial modules in projects, upgrades, and transformation initiatives.
• Support data validation, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization.

• Collaborate with technical teams on configurations, integrations, and issue resolution.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of experience supporting Oracle EBS Financials in a functional capacity.
• Hands-on experience across multiple modules (AP, GL, PO, FA, CE preferred).
• Basic understanding of financial controls, audit requirements, and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX).
• Working knowledge of Oracle EBS concepts such as setups, data flows, and module interdependencies.
• Amenable to work in EST
• Must be flexible with the schedule, including weekends and holidays when required based on operational needs

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