IT Fin Functional

**Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.**

**Why Ciena**:

- We are big proponents of **life-work integration** and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
- We believe an **inclusive, diverse and barrier-free** work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
- We recognize the importance of **well-being** and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
- We are committed to **employee development**, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
- We know that **financial security** is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
- We realize **time away** to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer flexible paid time off
- Great work deserves **recognition. **We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

**How You Will Contribute**:
In this role, you may perform multiple roles and should be able to demonstrate experience with the following:

- Partner with Business SMEs and System Implementation Partner to prioritize requirements, and estimate effort and resources required to satisfy both - Project Execution and Tracking.
- Able to work as a technical lead on projects to support the technical delivery functions and tasks across all work products including but not limited to configuration activities, integrations, technical build, driving testing cycles, and alignment of build to requirements. You will work on efforts that impact Oracle supply chain and finance processes (for example: Order to Cash, Demand to Deliver).
- Demonstrate ability to prioritize, manage, coordinate, track, and report cross-functional work efforts, ensuring projects and transformation programs are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards, and remain aligned to the strategic objectives.
- Define detailed functional requirements for customizations, automations and integrations with Oracle EBS and partner with technical teams to design and test automations and integrations, and assist with the identification and resolution of complex and critically important issues.
- Ability to perform analysis using skills such as PL/SQL, SQL, Alteryx, or other tools to identify data issues, assess impacts, and provide details from a technical perspective to solve business problems or identify solution options.
- Direct activities, assign responsibilities, set expectations and motivate team members toward achieving program/project objectives.
- Coordinate with IT directors, Business Managers, Resource Managers and IT PMO Manager for resource assignments, project deliverables, issue resolution and escalation and overall delivery of work elements.

**What Does Ciena Expect of You?**
- ** Initiative -** you’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against challenging deadlines.
- A **customer first mentality - **what’s important to the customer is also important to you.
- ** Agility **- you are readily able to manage competing and ever-changing priorities and maintain a balanced and methodical approach to problem solving.
- ** Communication expertise** - you possess the ability to tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and consensus.
- The flexibility to **work independently** and as **part of a broader team** - you thrive in a team environment, are comfortable working independently, and know how to get things done in a virtual environment.
- ** Relationship builder** - with a demonstrable ability to influence, you’re able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done through others.
- ** Critical thinking -** you readily approach problems in a consistent and systematic way.
- ** A commitment to ongoing learning **- increasing your knowledge of rules, regulations, and standards in the fields of internal audit, IT, and related matters of interest to the department.

**The Must Haves**:

- Demonstrated knowledge of End to End Oracle Supply Chain and Financial business processes with a focus on Order to Cash and Demand to Deliver and the ability to translate requirements into Functional / Technical requirements. General understanding of Oracle configurations and work products.
- Demonstrated record of accomplishment of successfully delivering technical solutions for software development projects
- Demonstrated abilit