This role is to work at Montevideo's Regional Office (Uruguay).
Main Purpose:
We are looking for an accomplished Business Analyst with in-depth experience in requirement gathering and detailed business process analysis to enable the delivery of complex software development projects. In this role, the candidate will be responsible for understanding and verifying business cases for change, completing business process analysis, and defining business requirements, functional requirements, design, testing, and go-live activities. The work will span multiple projects within the trading division. The candidate will manage relationships and expectations with business stakeholders and sponsors, and support development and testing teams throughout the entire delivery lifecycle. The candidate is expected to apply structured analysis and problem solving even in areas where they may not initially have deep business domain knowledge.
Key Responsibilities (Oracle BA Localization):
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Oracle LATAM localization, covering country-specific requirements across tax, e-invoicing, fiscal reporting, and statutory compliance for markets including Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia including and not limited to below:
- Elicit, document, and validate business requirements from regional stakeholders, translating them into functional specifications for Oracle Cloud implementation and support teams.
- Own the BAU delivery and product support for Oracle On-Premises and Oracle Cloud ERP applications.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with business stakeholders.
- Oversee all SCM/OM/Finance-related configuration and design changes going into production through the CAB review and approval process.
- Analyse the functional features in Oracle's quarterly patch cycles and provide product support for On-Premises and Cloud ERP applications.
- Clearly articulate target business processes, business requirements, and functional design to enable change.
- Support development teams to ensure the solution meets business requirements.
- Support quality assurance teams to ensure the solution meets business requirements.
- Support change management and training teams in preparing business stakeholders for process and functional change.
- Provide third-line support for production issues.
- Coach and mentor vendor functional team members within the assigned workstream.
- Participate in Oracle quarterly Release Update (RU) cycles reviewing release notes, assessing LATAM localization impact, coordinating regression testing, and communicating outcomes to stakeholders.
Required Skills & Experience
Experience & core capability:
- Proven ability to act as a bridge between the business and highly technical developers located in remote offices, translating business concepts into implementable requirements.
- 10+ years of business analysis experience, specifically in the implementation and support of Oracle ERP Financials and Supply Chain — preferably in the commodity trading or Energy domain.
- Broad knowledge of commodities trading, ideally for physical commodities.
Required domain knowledge:
- Order to Cash for a trading organisation
- Procure to Pay for a trading organisation
- Record to Report for a trading organisation
- Accounting and GL management
- LATAM taxes, regulatory statutory requirements, and electronic invoicing
Desirable domain knowledge:
- Physical commodity trading terms and lifecycle
- Expense management
Required systems experience (Cloud, and preferably On-Premises as well):
- Oracle Financials Cloud
- Oracle Supply Chain
- Oracle Tax
- Oracle Order Management
- Oracle Procurement
- Oracle Accounting Hub
- Reporting tools: OTBI, BO, QlikView, FAW
- FBDI and ADFDi for data migration
Technical understanding (MUST):
- Oracle product development cycle and Oracle security
- Oracle Instance strategy
- On-Premises ERP and Oracle Cloud ERP
- Principles of cloud-based platforms: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
Nice to have:
- Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) for building KPIs and dashboards
- Understanding of Commodities, Financing, Accounting, or Derivatives
Soft skills & ways of working:
- Strong oral and written communication, with strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with vendor teams and global IT owners, with attention to detail.
- Able to support QA test cycles, testing, and defect resolution processes.
- Strong change management skills; able to manage several projects simultaneously and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Experience with a variety of software development methodologies (e.g., continuous integration, iterative development) and with software product implementation, upgrade, maintenance, and support.
- Experience defining requirements for interfaces between application components or systems and supporting their development and testing.
- Able to self-manage and regularly prioritise and plan activities across multiple project workstreams.
- Solid understanding of business processes and associated technology.
- Works effectively within an inclusive team and actively supports the development of individuals and teams, both formally and informally.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Language Requirements:
- Spanish: Full professional proficiency — required, given the Montevideo base and LATAM stakeholder engagement.
- English: Full professional proficiency — required for global team collaboration.
- Portuguese: is a plus.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Functional Consultant on Oracle ERP implementations
- Minimum 6+ years of focused experience on Oracle Cloud Fusion LATAM localization across multiple countries and regulatory domains
- Demonstrated experience delivering Oracle localization solutions across at least four of the seven in-scope LATAM jurisdictions (Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia)
- Experience in at least two full Oracle Cloud implementation lifecycles from requirements through to hypercare, with LATAM localization as a primary workstream
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent relevant education
- Oracle Cloud certification in one or more Finance modules is advantageous
- Experience in commodities trading, energy, mining, or other intensive trading industries is strongly preferred
Reporting Structure – Reporting into Oracle Program Manager / Head of Backoffice
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.
