Oracle Financial Accounting Hub Techno-Functional Support Consultant

Oracle FAH Techno-Functional Support Consultant

Oracle FAH Techno-Functional Support Consultant1

Key Responsibilities

Functional Support Duties:

• Incident & Ticket Management: Triage, investigate, and resolve L2 user support tickets within agreed SLAs.
• Month-End Close Support: Provide critical support during financial close periods, ensuring all FAH interfaces are processed, and accounting entries are successfully transferred and posted to the General Ledger.
• Error Resolution: Investigate and resolve invalid account derivations, unposted journals, and suspense account hits caused by incorrect mapping or missing SLA rules.
• User Assistance: Guide finance users on handling standard FAH exceptions, understanding error reports, and navigating the system effectively.
• Documentation: Update support knowledge bases (KBs), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and root cause analysis (RCA) documents for recurring issues.

Technical Support Duties:

• System & Interface Monitoring: Monitor daily scheduled jobs, inbound data loads (ETL/flat files/APIs), and concurrent programs related to the FAH architecture.
• Technical Debugging: Troubleshoot interface failures, data corruption, or performance bottlenecks by analyzing logs, SQL queries, and PL/SQL packages.
• Data Fixes: Develop, test, and execute data fix scripts for transactional errors, strictly adhering to IT change management and audit compliance processes.
• Escalation & Collaboration: Package complex issues, bugs, or requirement changes and escalate them to L3 Support / Development teams.
• Oracle SR Management: Open and manage Service Requests (SRs) with Oracle Support for standard product defects or patches, providing necessary trace logs and diagnostics.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Experience: 
  • 10+ years of experience in Oracle FAH Support
  • Proven hands-on experience supporting Oracle FAH and troubleshooting Subledger Accounting (SLA) issues in a live production environment.
  • Experience working in an ITIL-driven support environment using ticketing tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, Remedy).
• Core Functional Skills: 
  • Strong understanding of the Subledger Accounting engine (Journal Line Types, Account Derivation Rules, Mapping Sets).
  • Familiarity with the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) or Order-to-Cash (O2C) cycles and how they integrate with the GL.
  • Solid understanding of financial period-close processes.
• Core Technical Skills:
  • Strong proficiency in writing and debugging SQL and PL/SQL.
  • Ability to read and understand technical interface architectures (API payloads, flat-file loading processes).
  • Familiarity with extracting reports using OTBI, BI Publisher, or standard Oracle queries to assist with data reconciliation.
• Soft Skills: High sense of urgency, excellent problem-solving abilities, and strong communication skills to manage stakeholder expectations during critical system outages.
• Availability: Ready to work in 3pm-12am IST shift

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• ITIL v3/v4 Foundation Certification.
• Prior experience in Application Managed Services (AMS).
• Experience with automated monitoring tools and setting up alert mechanisms for interface failures.

Experience Level

Senior Level