Senior Lead, Oracle Fusion FMS Strategy and Advisor

The Senior Lead, Oracle Fusion FMS Strategy and Advisory acts as Save the Children's internal consultant and trusted adviser on the Oracle Fusion Financial Management System implementation. The role ensures the system design meets organisational needs, supports project leadership in decision-making, and helps build in-house capability and adoption across the movement.

Responsibilities

• Act as Save the Children's internal consultant throughout the Oracle Fusion FMS implementation, working in close partnership with the implementing partner, business colleagues, and technology teams to ensure that configuration, integration, and business process designs are genuinely fit for purpose and reflect the specific needs of our organisation, not simply the implementing partner's standard approach; progressively building in-house capability so expertise is retained once the partner's involvement concludes
• Support the Project Lead and Product Owner in developing the future roadmap of Fusion FMS enhancements, including interfaces to other key systems, advising on scalability, performance, and a reduction in complexity across the estate
• Bring deep Oracle Fusion product expertise together with hands-on finance experience including emerging capabilities and best practice, translating this for the project team and upskilling colleagues to build internal capability
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of how Oracle Fusion FMS connects with Save the Children’s broader application landscape, using this knowledge to identify where proposed designs create risk or missed opportunity, and to advocate for solutions that genuinely work across our systems and our organisation as a whole
• Support the establishment and longer-term roadmap for shared support services and a Centre of Excellence, bringing industry experience and best practice to its design and implementation
• Support achievement of project success metrics and ensure consistent realisation of benefits, maintaining focus on improving the finance user experience and increasing organisational impact
• Work closely with the Global Change Manager to plan for accelerated adoption and successful, sustainable change across the movement, feeding Oracle expertise into these critical interventions
• Support the Project Leadership to pressure-test proposed solutions for fitness for purpose bringing the insight, independence, and product knowledge needed to challenge assumptions, surface risks, and ensure decisions are made in the best interests of Save the Children
• Engage senior finance and technology stakeholders across the movement with confidence and credibility, building the trust and relationships needed to surface requirements, gather the right input, and ensure the voices of our people genuinely inform solution design and decision-making
• Support Members as they adopt the global solution, providing input and SME knowledge to support creation of local feasibility assessments, solution design, and implementation, while building close relationships with Finance and Member colleagues to enable adoption, buy-in, and shared capability

Requirements

• Expert, hands-on knowledge of the Oracle Fusion FMS product, including configuration and emerging Fusion capabilities, gained from implementing Oracle within a finance function
• A finance background, having worked in a finance function combined with significant experience implementing Oracle Fusion as part of finance or ERP transformation within complex, global organisations
• Strong experience acting as a consultant or an internal adviser on ERP solution design, able to understand how a core finance platform integrates with the wider enterprise application landscape, and to identify where proposed designs do or do not serve the organisation’s specific needs
• Proven ability to define and drive realisation of benefits and success metrics, ensuring scalability, performance, and reduced complexity across the estate
• Experience working alongside third party software vendors and implementing partners validating their designs, assuring quality, and taking on knowledge transfer to retain capability in-house
• Experience within global, matrix organisations, with a proven ability to work effectively with people from different cultures
• Highly developed interpersonal skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching, with the ability to support senior stakeholders through change across a global organisation
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral English), with the ability to communicate and present to all levels of the organisation, and a commitment to Save the Children values
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrable Oracle Fusion expertise, evidenced by relevant Oracle Cloud certification(s) and/or substantial hands-on Fusion FMS implementation experience, ideally alongside a finance qualification or equivalent finance experience
• Experience leading or supporting transformation across multiple business units or countries, including enabling local teams through feasibility, design, and implementation
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development)
• Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic
• Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials certification(s)

Skills

• Oracle Fusion FMS
• Oracle Fusion Financials
• Finance Functional Expertise
• ERP Transformation
• ERP Solution Design
• Finance Platform Integration
• Benefits Realization
• Performance Optimization
• Complexity Reduction
• Vendor Management
• Implementation Partner Coordination
• Knowledge Transfer
• Global Matrix Organisation Experience
• Stakeholder Influencing
• Negotiation Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Change Management
• Communications Skills
• Oracle Cloud Financials certification
• Nonprofit Sector Knowledge

Languages

English