Oracle Cloud - Higher Education Accounting Lead

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead design for Chart of Accounts and end-to-end accounting in cloud-based ERP Financials and EPM implementations, with a focus on higher education and public sector organizations, ensuring alignment with fund accounting principles, FASB and/or GASB standards, regulatory requirements, and operational best practices.
• Evaluate institutions’ use of Oracle Cloud ERP and identify optimizations related to financial management and reporting, accounting, controls, and reconciliation.
• Partner with finance leaders and stakeholders at all levels of the institution to translate accounting, budgeting, and financial management requirements into future-state ERP designs that support transparency, control, and scalability.
• Provide functional expertise across institutions’ financial operations and accounting, including areas such as general accounting, endowment accounting, payroll accounting, research accounting, budgeting, and related financial reporting.
• Collaborate with integration, conversion, reporting, finance, grants, payroll, and student or affiliate systems teams to ensure end-to-end financial process alignment.
• Support pre-sales and business development activities, including contributing to solution approaches, proposals, and client presentations for higher education and public sector engagements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner, bringing awareness of ERP and financial management trends, cloud transformation strategies, and vendor roadmaps (Oracle or comparable platforms).
• Contribute to the development of standards, templates, and best practices to support consistent, high-quality ERP implementations across public sector and higher education clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Public Administration, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5–7 years of experience supporting financial management, accounting, or ERP implementations for higher education and/or public sector organizations.
• Demonstrated experience with FASB and/or GASB accounting standards, fund accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting.
• Experience working with Oracle Financials Cloud or another ERP financial system (e.g., Workday, SAP, Unit4, PeopleSoft), ideally as part of an implementation team, business analyst, or accountant.
• Strong functional understanding of higher education or related business functions, including General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, and financial reporting.
• Ability to bridge finance, accounting, and technology, translating business and regulatory needs into practical system designs.
• Experience supporting or leading workshops, stakeholder discussions, and design sessions with finance

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