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Job Title: Sr. Procurement Functional Specialist
Bengaluru, India - Level: P4
About the Role:
Drive the strategy and execution of our global procurement technology ecosystem. Our architecture leverages Zip (Zip HQ) as the premier intake and orchestration layer, integrated natively with Oracle Fusion Cloud as our financial system of record.
The ideal candidate is a Procurement technologist who understands the nuances of the entire Source-to-Pay (S2P) lifecycle. You will bridge the gap between user-centric intake and rigorous financial controls, ensuring that complex business requirements from Legal, Finance, and Global Sourcing are translated into seamless, automated workflows that maintain data integrity across both Zip and Oracle
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Process Architecture: Design and optimize the global S2P process, ensuring a frictionless hand-off between upstream sourcing/intake (Zip) and downstream purchasing/payables (Oracle Fusion).
- Dual-Platform Configuration: Act as the functional lead for both Zip and Oracle Fusion Procurement. Build complex intake workflows in Zip while simultaneously configuring Requisitioning, Purchasing, and Supplier Portals in Oracle to match.
- Integration Ecosystem Management: Own the functional health of the Zip-to-Oracle integration. Monitor data flow for Requisitions, Purchase Orders, and Supplier Master Data, Compliance screening, ensuring that "In-Flight" changes in one system are accurately reflected in the other.
- Strategic Business Partnership: Lead discovery sessions with Global Procurement, Legal, and Accounting. Translate high-level business policies into precise logic within the tech stack.
- Data Governance & Compliance: Ensure that the "System of Record" (Oracle) remains audit-ready. Manage the mapping of Category Codes, Cost Centers, and Tax attributes between the Zip UI and the Oracle GL.
- Release Management: Manage the quarterly update cycles for both Zip and Oracle. Conduct impact assessments on new features to ensure no disruption to the integrated workflow.
- AI Procurement Agent Strategy & Governance: Lead the adoption and functional governance of Oracle's embedded and custom AI agents (e.g., Procurement Policy Advisor), ensuring all AI-driven automation and outputs within the S2P process are compliant, auditable, and drive process efficiency across Zip and Oracle.
Required Qualifications
- Platform Proficiency: 8+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle Fusion Procurement (Self-Service Procurement, Purchasing, Supplier Model) and 1+ years of experience with Zip (Zip HQ).
- Procurement Subject Matter Expertise: Deep understanding of the Source-to-Pay (S2P) lifecycle, including PR/PO lifecycle, 3-way matching, Encumbrance Accounting, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM).
- Integration Fluency: Proven experience managing API-based integrations between Intake-to-Procure tools and Tier-1 ERPs. You should understand how a Zip "Approval" translates into an Oracle "Approved Requisition."
- Process Engineering: Ability to map complex, cross-functional business processes and identify opportunities for automation or bottleneck removal.
- Systems Thinking: You don't just fix a field; you understand how changing a workflow in Zip impacts the General Ledger and AP downstream in Oracle.
- Experience establishing technical standards and governing system changes in a live production environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in an organization transitioning to Oracle Cloud Ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Global Trade Management system..
- Third-party supporting software experience like Ironclad, Navan, etc..
- Exposure to the Data Center Infrastructure industry.
- Relevant professional product/functional certifications (e.g., Oracle Cloud certifications)
- Working knowledge of AI Agent Studio for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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