Manager, Financial Systems; Oracle

Manager, Financial Systems

Wilsonart is seeking a Manager, Financial Systems to lead the planning, delivery, and continuous improvement of financial systems across Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Cloud Financials platforms. This role combines deep financial systems and process expertise with leadership of high-performing teams in a complex, multi-phase ERP transformation environment.

Role Summary

The Manager, Financial Systems owns the strategic roadmap and operational excellence for core financial applications, ensuring consistency across business units and integration with Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Manufacturing, and Costing processes. This position plays a key role in the Finance & Accounting Center of Excellence (CoE), partnering with Finance leadership, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders to standardize processes, improve financial data integrity, and support strategic business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of functional and technical professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Act as functional lead for financial systems in Oracle EBS and Oracle Cloud Financials, setting standards and guiding solution decisions across business units
• Create and maintain a Center of Excellence for operational finance processes and associated applications and systems for continuous improvement of financial processes
• Lead the planning and delivery of strategic and tactical initiatives to the business leveraging Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Cloud Financials
• Promote the adoption of best practices in finance application management and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Provide functional leadership for projects, enhancements, and rollouts impacting financial systems, including planning, impact assessment, and testing strategy
• Enable and support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities with system readiness and issue resolution

Cross-Functional Solution Design

• Lead cross-functional workshops to capture business requirements, challenge legacy practices, and design future-state processes for financial systems
• Translate strategic business objectives into detailed functional designs and Oracle configurations, following Oracle best practices
• Ensure the successful delivery of business requirements through hands-on functional configuration and solution design aligned with Oracle best practices
• Conduct business workshop sessions and facilitate/document business requirements to understand business demand and initiatives and align technology solutions with business goals
• Provide hands-on setup and functional module implementation/configuration of Oracle Financial modules, both on-premise and in the cloud
• Collaborate with technical teams on solution architecture, integrations, and data strategies related to Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain
• Partner with Finance leadership, Procurement, Manufacturing, and IT teams to align financial system design with business process optimization and standardization
• Serve as the business process and system solutions subject matter expert to assist the organization in optimizing, standardizing, and improving system solutions and business processes

Knowledge Management & Team Development

• Mentor and guide team members and key users on best practices for Oracle financial systems
• Develop and maintain functional documentation, process maps, and training materials for financial processes and systems
• Serve as escalation point for complex financial systems issues and defects
• Build functional expertise within the organization through knowledge transfer, training sessions, and hands-on coaching
• Stay current on Oracle product roadmaps (both EBS and Cloud), financial systems best practices, and industry trends
• Proactively partner with Oracle and other financial systems providers to understand relevant best practices and deliver new system functionality and solutions to support accounting, reporting, and financial planning

Release Management & Implementation Support

• Oversee release management, including ownership and accountability of the release management process to include prioritizing, planning, building, testing, and deployment/execution in accordance with compliance requirements and internal controls
• Prepare and/or validate solutions for enhancements against Oracle best practices
• Lead and be responsible for data conversion, cutover planning, go-live execution, and post-production support
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, and IT to ensure seamless integration across business processes
• Drive process efficiency and lead organizational change management efforts to support system transformation
• Manage work stream scope, change requests, and delivery against defined milestones; mitigate and remediate risk factors and propose solutions based on best practices

Experience and Qualifications

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Finance,…