Principal ERP- PPM Consultant
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026. Oracle scores A on the Alion truth index.
Combining industry knowledge with Oracle application expertise, the team guides customers through the full implementation lifecycle. This includes assessing business requirements, designing future-state processes, configuring applications, integrating with related enterprise systems, migrating data, validating solutions through testing, and preparing for deployment. The team also supports user readiness and adoption to help customers incorporate new capabilities into day-to-day operations.
Through these engagements, the practice helps organizations strengthen project planning and execution, improve financial visibility and control, standardize processes, and enhance reporting and decision-making. Each implementation aligns technology and process improvements with the customer’s strategic objectives, industry requirements, and measures of success.
The ideal candidate will bring strong Grants Accounting and Grants Management expertise across commercial and public sector organizations, along with deep functional knowledge of Oracle Project Costing, Project Billing, and Capital Projects. This role requires the ability to translate complex business requirements into integrated solutions and lead implementations, enhancements, and ongoing functional support.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead requirements gathering and business process workshops to understand grants administration, project accounting, billing, and capital project needs.
- Design and support end-to-end Grants Management processes, including award setup, funding allocation, budgeting, expenditure tracking, cost allocation, billing, financial reporting, and award closeout.
- Configure and support Oracle Project Costing processes, including project setup, expenditure processing, cost collection, burdening, cost adjustments, accounting, and reconciliation.
- Design and support Oracle Project Billing processes, including contract setup, billing controls, invoicing, revenue recognition, and integration with Accounts Receivable.
- Lead Capital Projects processes, including capital cost accumulation, construction-in-progress tracking, asset assignment, capitalization, and transfer to Oracle Assets.
- Translate business requirements into functional designs, configuration specifications, process documentation, and reporting requirements.
- Partner with technical and cross-functional teams to deliver integrations, data conversions, reports, and extensions across relevant Oracle applications and external systems.
- Support grant-specific financial controls, allowable cost requirements, funding restrictions, audit readiness, and sponsor reporting based on applicable organizational and award requirements.
- Lead functional testing, support user acceptance testing, resolve defects, and validate financial results across integrated business processes.
- Support deployment planning, user training, knowledge transfer, post-go-live stabilization, and ongoing process improvements.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated functional expertise in Oracle Grants Accounting or Grants Management, Project Costing, Project Billing, and Capital Projects.
- Experience supporting grants and project accounting requirements in both commercial and public sector environments.
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end Oracle implementations, from discovery and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Strong understanding of project financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, expenditure controls, indirect cost recovery, billing, revenue recognition, capitalization, and reconciliation.
- Ability to assess complex grant and funding structures and translate sponsor requirements into practical business processes and application configurations.
- Experience with integrations between project accounting and related financial applications, such as General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Procurement, and Assets.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to investigate transaction, accounting, integration, and reporting issues.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to lead workshops and explain functional solutions to business and technical audiences.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle PPM Cloud implementations.
- Familiarity with public sector grant requirements, federal awards, and applicable cost principles, such as Uniform Guidance, where relevant.
- Experience with complex funding arrangements, including multiple funding sources, cost sharing, matching requirements, and award amendments.
- Experience developing financial reports and dashboards using Oracle reporting tools.
- Relevant Oracle certifications or a background in accounting, finance, grants administration, or enterprise application consulting.
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $71,200 to $166,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.