Principal Solution Architect - Supply Chain Finance & Costing (Oracle Fusion)

Overview

Provide senior solution leadership for Supply Chain Finance and Costing, including Intercompany, as GE HealthCare migrates from Oracle E-Business Suite R12 to Oracle Fusion Cloud. Shape global design decisions and guide scalable solutions across costing, inventory accounting, supply chain finance, intercompany trade, transfer pricing, and related Record-to-Report processes.

What you'll do

• Act as the design authority for Supply Chain Finance and Costing, defining target-state processes and solution architecture for cost management, inventory accounting, and intercompany.
• Define integrations with Inventory, Manufacturing, Order Management, Procurement, Receivables, Payables, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, and enterprise reporting.
• Advise Finance, Controllership, Tax, Supply Chain, and business leaders on leading practices and challenge current ways of working where processes should change.
• Define future-state processes for standard costing, cost elements, overheads, cost accounting distributions, COGS, inventory valuation, manufacturing and purchase price variances, and period-end cost accounting.
• Design and govern trade and non-trade intercompany scenarios, including sales and purchases, internal requisition and internal sales order flows, transfer pricing, markups, cost-plus arrangements, profit in inventory, eliminations, settlements, and reconciliations.
• Evaluate Oracle standard functionality, configuration, extensions, and alternative approaches; own design decisions, fit-gap assessments, process controls, and trade-offs.
• Provide application expertise through configuration review, setup validation, prototyping, and conference-room pilots.
• Assess how configuration choices affect accounting, controls, integrations, reporting, and operational processes.
• Lead requirements decomposition and produce functional specifications, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mappings, and accounting requirements.
• Guide technical and integration teams on functional flows, accounting events, data, error handling, and reconciliation.
• Drive testing across system integration, user acceptance, regression, conversion validation, cutover, and hypercare.
• Support R12-to-Fusion migration, including legacy process assessment, data conversion, reconciliation, coexistence, and retirement of redundant customizations.
• Own the solution beyond go-live, including stabilization, Oracle quarterly-release impact assessment, enhancements, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership and coaching, facilitate decisions across workstreams, manage risks and dependencies, and communicate recommendations to senior stakeholders.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cost accounting, supply chain finance, or manufacturing finance, including ERP implementations.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in standard, actual, and average costing, overhead absorption, variance analysis, inventory valuation, COGS, manufacturing and procurement accounting, and period-end cost close.
• Led or held a principal design role in at least three end-to-end ERP implementations across at least two different industries, covering costing, inventory, or supply chain finance.
• Ability to advise business stakeholders on alternative process models and leading practices and influence design decisions beyond what any single platform offers.
• Working expertise in Oracle Fusion Cost Management and supply chain touchpoints, Subledger Accounting, and Intercompany, or Oracle E-Business Suite R12 equivalents.
• Ability to validate configuration, run fit-gap assessments, and explain accounting, control, reporting, and integration impacts.
• Experience designing costing and inventory accounting solutions for a complex, global manufacturing and distribution environment.
• Strong knowledge of intercompany trade, transfer pricing, and cross-entity inventory movements and their accounting and reconciliation implications across AR, AP, Inventory, Costing, and GL.
• Ability to develop functional specifications and partner effectively with technical teams on reports, interfaces, conversions, integrations, and extensions.
• Platform-independent thinking and credibility to challenge and influence senior Finance and business stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate finance requirements into scalable application solutions.
• Structured problem-solving, attention to detail, and ability to assess downstream process and system impacts.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across Finance, Business, Product, Architecture, Development, and external implementation partners.
• Continuous-improvement mindset focused on standardization, controls, adoption, and sustainable support.

Nice to have

• Direct participation in an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 to Oracle Fusion migration.
• Experience with phased deployments, hybrid R12/Fusion coexistence, and complex legal entity or ledger structures.
• Exposure to other ERP platforms, such as SAP, or cost management tools.
• Knowledge of Oracle Cloud reporting, data, and integration tools such as OTBI, BI Publisher, FBDI, REST/SOAP services, middleware, and light SQL for analysis and validation.
• Professional certification such as CMA, CPA, CA, or ACCA, or Oracle Cloud certification.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Relocation assistance is not provided.