Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Cloud Financials - Core Accounting - Oracle

**Job Description** Join our Core Accounting Product Management team within Oracle Cloud ERP and embark on a journey to shape the next generation of finance functions, focused around the Record to Report process. This opportunity will place you at the heart of our mission to redefine and enhance the way businesses manage their financials, from transaction capture through to the period-end close. In this role, you will contribute to optimizing accounting practices, simplifying the period-end close, driving innovation in financial reporting and compliance, and improving the overall financial health of our customers' businesses. By collaborating closely with application developers, quality assurance teams, release management, and support teams throughout the product lifecycle, you will ensure the delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions that make financial reporting seamless and more efficient. **Responsibilities** Responsibilities for the role include: + Lead a discussion with the management to gain insight into the product roadmap and project assigned - its background, goal and scope. Ensure management expectations & delivery timelines are clearly understood. + Liaison between Strategy/Customer/Management to understand customer business processes and get a complete 360 analysis of the related requirements. + Formulate how the product roadmap will help acquire new customers/market penetration by recording value proposition. + Be creative in designing solutions for customer problems/requirements. + Produce high quality design document with comprehensive and detailed solution analysis with a focus on all core areas: extensibility, robustness, backward compatibility, supportability, exception handling, performance expectations/bench-marking, upgrade plan for customers, critical technology or product dependencies, product resiliency (self-correction) and flexibility (user self-service feature), cloud operational considerations: recover and restart ability, opt-in options for the customer. Design should include the definition of product use cases, wireframes and upstream and downstream impact areas + Uphold product quality to the highest standards. As part of design it is very critical to document testing strategy that identifies the success/acceptance criteria for the project. Ensure that any test-ware is in line with focus of the enhancement, is tested with real customer use cases/data patterns and influences. + Ensure the MVP definition is aligned with customer commitment in mind, and management sign off is received. + Collaborate with Developers on reviewing any technical solution document to ensure that it is aligned with the finalized solution approach + Work closely with Technical Writers to create launch deliverables like New Feature Summary, What's New and TOI's + You will be a financial functional expert capable of establishing relationships with many highly technical teams. You will be able to understand current and future technology and to identify opportunities for its use to benefit customers through discussions with developers. **Requirements:** **Preferred Qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree (or Post Graduate/Doctorate) in Finance and Accounting or Economics or Computer Science. + Major(s): Any of these or related: Computer Science/Engineering, Software Systems, Management and Engineering, Information and Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, Business Management, Business Finance. + Financial educational background is very much desirable. The successful applicant should have in-depth understanding of financial flows and business processes involved in finance management. + Experience in SaaS Enterprise Resource Planning product management, consulting, or finance operations. **Other qualifications:** + Experience in SaaS Enterprise Performance Management. + Strong analytical skills, strong written and verbal communication skills. + Ability to thrive in fast paced environment and learn quickly. + Desire to work in a cross-functional, co-located team environment. + Demonstrate an excellent understanding of standard word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. + Experience of working in an Agile environment with a strong understanding of the Scrum framework and principles. Ability to train/coach/adopt teams to adopt continuous delivery practices and lean/agile methodologies. + Experience in developing cloud products with strong understanding of Cloud native application patterns, CI/CD, DevOps. + Experience in using Data analysis to derive product and business insights for driving product design and strategy. + Experience in designing modern customer experience with exposure to Information architecture, Interaction design, user persona identification and modelling etc. + Experience in digital customer experience, digital product management. Disclaimer: **Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.** **Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only** US: Hiring Range: from $87,600 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance **About Us** As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's problems. 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