Functional Configuration Consultant (Oracle) at FNB South Africa

Are you someone who can:

• Devise and implement innovations or methodologies that achieve efficiencies and reduce cost based on time, risk, process and re-usability of solutions.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.
• Maintain close relationships with key stakeholders ensuring appropriate solutions are developed, appropriate and timeous feedback is provided. Escalate challenges to relevant business owners where required.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME's, project managers and senior staff members, vendors, etc.
• Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
• Analyze and interpret business requirements to formulate a solution.
• Estimate and execute all approved development and configuration items and ensure delivery according to business requirements documentation.
• Provide input and assist business to achieve efficiencies through optimized processes.
• Comply, understand and align to all steps within the System Development Life Cycle and ensure governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.
• Compile and develop the required technical documentation with clear translation of business requirements into functional requirements. Ensure documentation is prepared across the system development life cycle.
• Ensure adequate unit tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks and ensure results are successful.
• Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the applications are not adversely affected.
• Provide technical support for all requests escalated where relevant.
• Make use of appropriate resources with the required skill level to deliver within required timeframes.
• Provide an estimate of the resources and time required to deliver the required functionality.
• Ensure the effective coordination, development and delivery of training on the solution to internal clients, end users and relevant stakeholders.
• Participation in creation and ownership of project plans and project management to meet project target dates and milestones.
• Extract and analyse data against business rules, policy and practice. Formulate on client needs to support new/existing product development projects to derive a clear understanding of the client’s needs and requirements through provision of subject matter expertise.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies.
• Participate and collaborate across teams.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Minimum: Grade 12
• Preferred: Tertiary qualification in IT or Certificate in Business Analysis
• 5 – 8 years Functional and Business Analysis experience working within an IT environment.
• Understanding of System Architecture.
• Extensive understanding of process mapping.

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you can: 

• Strong Financials, Subledger Accounting Rules in the Oracle space.
• Oracle Cloud will be an advantage.
• Must have experience in General Ledger and Financial Reporting and Close process.
• With 8 years' experience as a functional Configuration Consultant II

End Date: December 18, 2025