Oracle Procurement Functional Analyst (70% Func; 30% Tech)

Role: Oracle Procurement Functional Analyst (70% Func; 30% Tech) Location: Hyderabad, Hybrid Shift: 1 PM IST to 10 PM IST Budget: INR 23 LPA Experience: 8 to 12 years Position Summary The Oracle Procurement Functional Analyst will play a key role in managing and supporting Curia’s Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement landscape. This role requires a strong functional understanding of Oracle R12.2.12 procurement capabilities supporting both Direct and Indirect procurement, including Oracle iProcurement, punchout catalogs, requisitioning, purchasing, approvals management through Oracle AME, and the broader Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process—combined with the ability to analyze, design, and deliver system enhancements and support integrated business processes. This position bridges Procurement, Finance, Projects, and IT to enable efficient purchasing operations, data integrity, compliance, and alignment with global business standards. Key Responsibilities **Functional Responsibilities** • Provide functional expertise across Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.12 Procurement capabilities supporting both Direct and Indirect procurement, including Oracle iProcurement, punchout catalogs, requisitioning, purchasing, approvals management through Oracle AME, and the broader Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process. • Serve as the primary point of contact for production support of Oracle Procurement processes, ensuring high availability, issue resolution, and user satisfaction. • Lead and deliver minor enhancements and configuration updates (typically under 80 hours of effort) in response to business needs and approved change requests. • Support end-to-end Procure-to-Pay transactions by resolving issues across requisitioning, approvals, purchase order processing, receiving, invoice matching, and downstream financial processing. • Manage and resolve functional incidents promptly, ensuring root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures are implemented. • Collaborate closely with Oracle Finance and Oracle Projects (PPM) functional analysts to support integrated business processes, including charge accounts, project-related procurement, accruals, invoice matching, and supplier payment readiness. • Support and troubleshoot both Direct and Indirect procurement processes, ensuring accurate transaction flow across procurement, receiving, inventory, finance, and project-related purchasing activities. • Support Oracle iProcurement processes, including employee self-service requisitioning, catalog and non-catalog requests, and punchout supplier integrations, ensuring a seamless user experience and accurate downstream processing into purchasing, receiving, and Accounts Payable. • Support and troubleshoot Oracle AME approval workflows, approval hierarchies, and routing issues to ensure timely and compliant approval processing across procurement transactions. • Stay current on Oracle E-Business Suite procurement capabilities and best practices, and provide end-user support, training, and documentation to improve process efficiency and adoption. **Technical and Integration Responsibilities** • Support technical aspects of Oracle ERP procurement processes, including interfaces, conversions, reports, reconciliations, workflow troubleshooting, and data validation. • Manage and troubleshoot integrations between Oracle ERP and external or adjacent enterprise systems, including productivity tools used for AP automation and other applications supporting Procure-to-Pay operations. • Troubleshoot issues related to Oracle iProcurement and punchout-enabled supplier catalogs, partnering with internal technical teams, suppliers, and external solution providers as needed to resolve connectivity, data mapping, transaction, and user experience issues. • Collaborate with the BI team to support reporting, dashboards, data extracts, and analytics, ensuring data accuracy and alignment across procurement, finance, projects, and integrated systems. • Partner with IT and application teams on enhancement requests, data mapping, interface troubleshooting, and issue resolution activities across Oracle Procurement, AME, and related applications. • Ensure adherence to IT Security and Compliance standards, including SOX, internal audit controls, segregation-of-duties expectations, and enterprise support procedures. **Change Management and Governance** • Ensure alignment with enterprise application governance and change-management processes. • Prepare detailed documentation for configuration changes, enhancements, support procedures, and system releases related to procurement, approvals, and Procure-to-Pay processes. • Partner with the Enterprise Applications leadership team to identify continuous improvement and standardization opportunities across the global application landscape. **Release Management Responsibilities** • Support Oracle E-Business Suite patches, AME changes, and procurement application updates by reviewing release documentation and performing impact assessments. • Prepare and coordinate Non-Production environment activities ahead of planned changes to enable smooth testing and validation. • Coordinate with business users and cross-functional teams to plan and execute unit, integration, and user acceptance testing for fixes and enhancements across procurement, approvals, and Procure-to-Pay flows. • Ensure readiness and timely deployment of approved changes to Production, proactively addressing issues and dependencies. • Collaborate with Oracle Support and internal IT teams for post-deployment verification and resolution of any identified issues. Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field. • 10+ years of experience supporting Oracle E-Business Suite, with a STRONG functional focus on Procurement and Procure-to-Pay processes supporting Direct and Indirect procurement, Oracle iProcurement, punchout catalogs, Oracle AME approvals, and cross-functional purchasing operations. • Hands-on experience collaborating with Oracle Finance and Oracle Projects (PPM) functional analysts and supporting integrations with AP automation tools, BI/reporting platforms, or other enterprise applications. • Working knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle reporting tools, workflow troubleshooting, and interface support preferred. • Candidates who may not have direct experience in all areas must demonstrate a proven ability to learn quickly, take initiative, and show ownership in acquiring new skills that add value to the organization. **This position is intended for a seasoned professional (“experienced campaigner”) with demonstrated experience in enterprise-level ERP systems—**it is not suitable for recent graduates or individuals in the early stages of their career. • Familiarity with Oracle SCM business flows, receiving, inventory interactions, and cross-functional transaction troubleshooting is a plus. • Experience supporting global procurement operations and collaborating with cross-functional teams across regions. • Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, Finance, Projects, Procurement, and IT teams.