Senior JDE Functional Consultant

Redfaire is a fast-growing, international technology company with operations in the UK and Ireland. We implement and manage Oracle ERP (JD Edwards) on Oracle Cloud infrastructure as well as developing our Owned IP for cross selling to the same base of customers. Redfaire provides consulting services, managed services and cloud infrastructure services with a specific focus on Oracle Cloud to a diverse range of clients and geographical locations.

About the role:

Based within our Professional Services business unit, the Oracle JD Edwards Senior Functional Consultant will be responsible for implementing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for our global customer base, liaising with third party as well as internal resources to ensure optimum solutions are implemented for our customers. The candidate should be open to new ways of working and willing to learn innovative technologies. This is a full-time permanent role which may be home based in the UK/Ireland or within our Shared Service Centre in Limerick. Candidates based in similar timezones will also be considered. The successful candidate will also need the ability to work both on a customer site and as part of a remote team.

Your Responsibilities:

• Strong knowledge of JDE areas such as Finance, Manufacturing, Distribution, Service Management, Project Management, is desirable.
• Apply experience with the latest JD Edwards functionality in the areas of Citizen Developer (UDOs), Orchestrations, etc.
• Take complete ownership and exercise leadership on the assignments, with a holistic view of the system and business areas.
• Create functional solutions based on defined business requirements and to be able to “translate” these for the Customer Business Users and the Development team at either Redfaire or the Customers own team.
• Provide JD Edwards Consulting and Solution design expertise in JD Edwards General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets.
• Participate in pre-sales processes, providing estimates, liaise with the development team to provide consolidated end to end project streams estimates, and provide valuable inputs for assumptions, in and out of scope items, and risks mitigation for the projects to come.
• Propose standard solutions using the most recent features of the system, to replace heavily customised processes, in upgrade projects.
• Liaise with support teams /external suppliers to ensure application issues, fixes and changes meet the business requirements and are delivered on time.
• Provide problem management skills and proactively tackle assigned project issues and to be able to put forward and explain simple cost-effective solutions to our customers.
• Demonstrate senior level business acumen and self-manage on smaller projects.
• Initiate and manage effective relationships between the support teams and with the wider Redfaire group in addition to providing mentorship to Junior / Associate Consultants.
• Develop or help develop and deliver end-user training as required.

Qualifications & Previous Experience:

• Minimum 5 years Oracle JD Edwards E1 experience in an implementation role across Finance, Distribution and/or Manufacturing modules.
• Experience of multiple JD Edwards versions (ideally including EnterpriseOne 9.2).
• Experience with SQL tools and JD Edwards normalisation (schemas, tables, etc) is strongly desirable.
• Experience in creating and updating Orchestrations.
• Domain expertise in all core finance modules and knowledge of other areas such as Distribution, Manufacturing, Service Management, etc is desirable.
• Experience with integration of JD Edwards with government/regulatory entities such as EMCS, Electronic Invoicing, and other EU and regional Systems is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of EnterpriseOne technical level debugging & logging is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of JD Edwards OneView and BI Interactive is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of other 3rd party reporting, form management or security products desirable but not essential.
• Have a proven capability to follow different project implementation methodologies.
• Be very familiar with the JD Edwards project lifecycle (planning, requirements gathering, fit gap analysis, design, configuration, testing, Go Live and handover to the support team).
• Highly driven and self-motivated to work as required, with a hands-on approach to ensure the deliverables are produced on time with high quality.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.