Oracle Cloud Financial Transformation Program Manager
Job Description
Oracle Cloud Financials Transformation Program Manager
Location: Hyderabad (Preferred)
Program Context
This role supports a late-stage Oracle Cloud Financials transformation program approaching first production deployment, followed by phased rollouts.The immediate focus is on execution control across integrations, data migration, testing, cutover planning, production readiness, and post-go-live stabilization.
The program manager will work in a multi-entity, multi-workstream, and audit-sensitive, involving Finance, business process owners, IT delivery teams, implementation partners, testing teams, data migration teams, infrastructure teams, support teams, and control/compliance stakeholders.Exact counts for legal entities, countries, users, interfaces, and data volumes will be shared during the formal evaluation process.
Role Summary
The Oracle Cloud Financials Program Manager will act as the end-to-end financial transformation delivery authority, accountable for:
- Program execution
- Financial data integrity
- Controllership alignment
- Production readiness of core accounting processes
This role requires deep Oracle Fusion Financials expertise combined with strong finance domain knowledge, ensuring alignment with statutory, audit, and financial close requirements.
The candidate must have led complex Oracle Financials programs through:
- Build
- Testing
- Financial reconciliation
- Cutover
- Go-live
- Hypercare & financial close stabilization
Core Responsibilities
Program Delivery & Governance- Lead end-to-end Oracle Financials program delivery across all workstreams
- Own integrated program plan, RAID, dependencies, and recovery actions
- Drive structured governance, executive reporting, and escalation
- Own financial data integrity across GL and subledgers (AP, AR, FA)
- Ensure reconciliation between GL, subledgers, and source systems
- Validate end-to-end financial transaction traceability
- Govern Subledger Accounting (SLA) rules and accounting logic
- Validate chart of accounts, accounting structures, and reporting hierarchies
- Oversee intercompany accounting and eliminations
- Lead SIT, UAT, regression testing, and defect governance
- Ensure financial validation within test cycles
- Govern data mapping, cleansing, conversion, and reconciliation
- Ensure:
- Opening balances validated
- Trial balance tie-outs
- Subledger-to-GL reconciliation
- Lead cutover planning as a financial risk event
- Own:
- Cutover sequencing
- Rollback planning
- Command center execution
- Ensure system readiness for month-end and year-end close
- Validate close timelines and reporting outputs
- Ensure alignment with SOX / audit / compliance frameworks
- Support audit readiness and control validation
- Manage implementation partner delivery and performance
- Identify commercial risks and support contract governance
Decision Rights
Owned by Program Manager- Execution decisions within approved scope, budget, timeline
- Plan sequencing and dependency ownership
- Test readiness and cutover execution decisions
- Scope changes
- Budget increases
- Go-live approval
- Financial control or audit-impacting changes
- Daily stand-ups (critical phases)
- Weekly program reviews
- Biweekly steering committee
- Go-live readiness reviews
- Cutover command center governance
- Integrated Program Plan
- RAID Log
- Dependency & Decision Logs
- Defect Dashboard
- Data Reconciliation Tracker
- Cutover Runbook
- Go-Live Readiness Pack
- Hypercare Dashboard
- 12+ years in enterprise program delivery
- 5+ years leading Oracle Fusion Financials programs
- Proven delivery of full lifecycle Oracle Financials implementation
- Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA, Intercompany)
- Subledger Accounting (SLA)
- Financial reconciliation & balance validation
- Data migration & cutover execution
- Multi-entity / multi-country finance transformation
- Opening balance validation
- Trial balance reconciliation
- Financial close stabilization
- Subledger Accounting (SLA) design & validation
- GL ↔ Subledger reconciliation frameworks
- Financial close orchestration
- Multi-GAAP / multi-ledger environments
- Intercompany eliminations
- Finance data governance & controls
- Audit / SOX compliance alignment
- Oracle reporting tools (OTBI, BI Publisher, Smart View)
- Financial integration flows
- Zero critical defects at go-live
- No rollback during deployment
- All balances reconciled within tolerance
- No unresolved financial breaks
- First month-end close completed on time
- No audit or compliance exceptions
- Stable hypercare exit within agreed timeline
Candidate Screen-Out Criteria
Do not submit candidates who are:
- PMO/reporting-focused
- Lacking Oracle Financials depth
- Without cutover/go-live ownership
- Missing data migration & reconciliation experience
- Limited to module-level delivery
- Without structured governance experience