Natera is seeking a hands-on Finance Functional Lead, Oracle Fusion Cloud within IS&T to serve as the single functional owner and key point of contact for Finance leadership across an aggressive Oracle Fusion Finance transformation. This role owns Oracle Fusion Financials end-to-end, from roadmap and backlog to hands-on configuration, delivery, and adoption and is the primary IS&T partner for the Controller, Senior Finance Leadership, and Accounting organization.
This role owns product outcomes, finance domain delivery, automation impact, and audit readiness. The candidate will govern an offshore MSP for KTLO support while personally owning all net-new initiatives and capabilities within the Finance domain. Not just requirements gathering or ticket execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Ownership: Own the product vision, roadmap, sprint planning, and backlog for Oracle Fusion Financials, including GL, AP, AR, FA, Cash Management, Project Accounting, Lease Accounting, Consolidations & Eliminations, Intercompany, Expenses, Billing, Revenue, Tax, Treasury, Cost Accounting, and FP&A enablement.
- Single Owner - Finance Domain Delivery: Serve as the sole accountable owner for all Oracle Fusion Finance net-new initiatives from design through go-live. Own delivery roadmap, prioritization, and outcomes end to end with no hand-offs. Drive at pace in a high-velocity, high-expectation Finance environment.
- Key Business POC - Finance Leadership Partnership: Act as the primary point of contact for the Controller, Senior Finance Leadership, and accounting teams. Translate business requirements into system design, present solution decisions clearly, and build trusted relationships that position IS&T as a strategic partner and not like a ticket queue.
- Offshore MSP Governance - KTLO Oversight: Direct and govern the offshore managed service partner (MSP) responsible for keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) support across Finance modules. Set quality standards, review deliverables, escalate risks, and ensure MSP execution meets business SLAs while staying focused on transformation.
- Solution Delivery: Perform hands-on functional configuration and system changes within Oracle Fusion Financials, including setups, controls, and process improvements. Lead end-to-end delivery including testing, training, documentation, quarterly upgrades, release readiness, and production stability.
- Consolidations, Eliminations & ARCS: Own solution analysis, functional design and delivery of financial consolidation and intercompany elimination processes. Lead implementation and optimization of Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) including reconciliation templates, compliance workflows, period-close dashboards, and GL integration.
- Project Accounting & Lease Accounting: Implement and sustain Oracle Fusion Project Accounting (project costing, billing, capitalization, GL/FA integration) and Lease Accounting.
- Period Close, Audit Support & Compliance: Own functional configuration supporting month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close (reconciliations, subledger close, intercompany eliminations, and financial reporting). Support SOX walkthroughs, prepare audit PBC documentation, maintain control documentation, and drive audit remediation within Oracle Fusion.
- Intelligent Automation Delivery: Design, implement, and drive AI and intelligent automation across close, billing, reconciliations, T&E, tax, and treasury processes, utilizing Oracle AI and other automation frameworks. Identify opportunities to rationalize manual workarounds with native Oracle capability.
- Integrations: Collaborate with integration and engineering teams on extensions and integration of adjacent Finance applications (e.g., Concur, Workday, Blackline, Workiva, Adaptive), providing functional leadership, validation, and business context.
- Trusted Reporting: Understand Finance reporting & analytical requirements and deliver dashboards, KPIs, and insights using Oracle tools (BIP/OTBI) or by partnering with BI/Analytics teams.
- SOX Compliance & Audit Readiness: Ensure system configuration supports SOX-compliant financial controls, proper segregation of duties, and audit traceability across all Finance modules.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of hands-on experience owning/supporting Finance ERP platforms within IS&T/IT with Oracle ERP implementation expertise.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Financials - functional configuration, data analysis & reporting (BIP/OTBI), testing, and production support.
- Deep, practical knowledge of core finance and accounting processes including Record-to-Report, Close, Billing, Revenue, Cost Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and FP&A.
- Proven hands-on experience with Consolidations & Eliminations within Oracle Fusion.
- Finance and accounting foundation CPA, CMA, or direct GL/AP/AR/close/audit experience strongly preferred. You understand the books, not just the system.
- Offshore MSP management experience: ability to govern, direct, and hold accountable a third-party delivery team across KTLO and support functions.
- Executive communication skills: proven ability to present, influence, and partner directly with Controllers, VPs of Finance, and senior accounting leadership.
- Experience utilizing AI capabilities in transforming Finance operations.
- Direct experience integrating and governing best-of-breed Finance applications.
- Strong financial and analytical expertise with deep knowledge of Oracle Finance core data structures to enable accurate financial reporting.
- Strong SOX, audit, and regulated-environment experience.
- Thrives in aggressive, high-velocity environments with shifting priorities and high Finance leadership expectations.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented, and business outcomes mindset.
- Strong project/program management skills and experience in Agile/iterative delivery models.
- Commitment to clear documentation, governance, and operational rigor.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working at a Big 4 or Tier-1 consulting firm (e.g., Deloitte, Accenture, EY, PwC) delivering Oracle Finance or enterprise ERP solutions.
- Oracle Fusion ERP/Financials certifications.
- Project Accounting, Lease Accounting implementation experience
- Experience supporting Finance platforms through M&A, integrations, or rapid business scale.
- Life sciences, diagnostics, or medical device industry experience.
OUR OPPORTUNITY
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.
The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!
For more information, visit www.natera.com.
Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.
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