The Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP) Implementation Consultant will support the deployment and optimization of Oracles cloud-based financial aid solution for US universities.

This role involves working closely with financial aid officers, IT teams, and university leadership to ensure the system meets institutional and regulatory requirements.

The consultant is also expected to support the existing SFP system.

Roles :

- Implementation Specialist : Leads or supports the deployment of Oracle SFP.

- Functional Consultant : Translates university financial aid processes into Oracle SFP configurations.

- Advisor to Stakeholders : Collaborates with financial aid officers, IT teams, and leadership.

- Trainer and Supporter : Provides training and post-implementation support to users.

Responsibilities :

- Collaborate with university departments to gather financial aid requirements.

- Configure Oracle SFP to align with institutional policies and federal regulations.

- Assist in migrating legacy financial aid data into Oracle SFP.

- Conduct system testing, troubleshoot issues, and validate configurations.

- Ensure compliance with U.S. federal financial aid regulations.

- Create documentation for configurations, processes, and training materials.

- Support change management during transition from legacy systems.

- Maintain clear communication with project stakeholders.

Skills :

- Expertise in Oracle Cloud Applications, especially Oracle SFP.

- Knowledge of U.S. federal financial aid regulations (e.g., FAFSA, Pell Grants).

- Strong project management and organizational skills.

- Analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.

- Effective verbal and written communication skills.

- Good understanding of data integration and cloud infrastructure.

- Adaptability to dynamic university environments.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies :

Customer Management :

- Has working knowledge of customers' business domains and technology suite.

- Use latest technology, proactively suggest solutions to increase business, and understand customer's business.

Projects Documentation :

- Has In-depth understanding of documentation involved in Project like BBP & Solution Design, FS etc.

- Able to build into require project documentation and can do a Peer review for team members documents.

Domain/ Industry Knowledge :

- Working knowledge of customers' business processes and relevant technology platforms/products.

- Ability to prepare process maps, workflows, and business cases with application of industry standards and practices.

- Creation of medium to complex business models.

Functional Design :

- Working knowledge of high-level scope analysis, solution design processes, implementation and integration approaches, as well as cross-functional processes.

- Able to understand and design processes, identify key business drivers, translate use cases into diagrams, update design specifications, and design modular, flexible solutions meeting business requirements.

- Understand the overall solution's integrity, application behavior, and business rules, providing input for technical components, data design, and prototype creation.

- Can coordinate process playbacks and prototype reviews with stakeholders and configure applications for realizing business solutions.

Requirement Gathering And Analysis :

- Working knowledge of requirement management processes and requirement analysis processes, tools & methodologies.

- Able to analyze the impact of change requested/ enhancement/ defect fix and identify dependencies or interrelationships among requirements & transition requirements for engagement.

Test Management :

- Able to perform unit testing & perform comparison testing for rehosting, report testing status and create iteration, system integration test plan and develop integration test cases as required.

- Execute automation test scripts/manual test cases as per test plan, record findings and DIT Test Cases against the baseline code provided.

- Identify, report and document defects identified and perform defect fix/ deviations from expected results.
- Create test cases, test scenarios and test data and perform Development Integration Testing.

Required Behavioral Competencies :

Accountability :

- Takes responsibility for and ensures accuracy of own work, as well as the work and deadlines of the team.

Collaboration :

- Shares information within team, participates in team activities, asks questions to understand other points of view.

Agility :

- Demonstrates readiness for change, asking questions and determining how changes could impact own work.

Customer Focus :

- Identifies trends and patterns emerging from customer preferences and works towards customizing/ refining existing services to exceed customer needs and expectations.

Communication :

- Targets communications for the appropriate audience, clearly articulating and presenting his/her position or decision.

Drives Results :

- Sets realistic stretch goals for self & others to achieve and exceed defined goals/targets.

Resolves Conflict :

- Displays sensitivity in interactions and strives to understand others views and concerns