Functional Developer

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.    

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works behind the scenes to support operational excellence. Our functional services teams (FSTs) provide services to 31,000 employees in over 400 locations worldwide. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a Functional Developer to be part of the evolution and enhancement of our Oracle E-Business Suite Financials and BlackLine Financial Close Suite. The ideal candidate will have experience as an implementer with strong skills and application knowledge in Oracle General Ledger (GL), Subledger Accounting (SLA), Intercompany Processing, Financial Reporting and BlackLine (Account Reconciliations, Journal Entry, Task Management, Transaction Matching, Variance Analysis) to meet the needs of our business.  This position would involve collaborating with the business analysts and technical development teams to gain a deep understanding of requirements; performing functional analysis & design; and collaboratively involve themselves in producing the functional solution design, configurations, and functional specifications for building the extensions to meet the requirements following our solution delivery framework.

This role will primarily oversee, configure, and design functional solutions as the functional subject matter expert in Oracle EBS Financials and BlackLine Financial Close Suite. The Functional Developer will provide an interactive gateway with end user groups on helping align business processes with Oracle EBS and BlackLine functionalities, adopt best practices and keep abreast of Oracle EBS and BlackLine relevant module enhancements, directions, and updates.

The successful candidate can be based in any of our Stantec offices located in Canada.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Recommend Oracle EBS and BlackLine functionalities and capabilities to help meet new business requirements, improve existing business processes and/or address application problems.
• Be part of a team responsible for recommending solution designs to the business based on Oracle and BlackLine best practices leveraging out-of-the-box functionality and extensions, where appropriate, to address gaps.
• Develop impact analysis and implement strategies to manage change for large new system implementations or small functionality changes. 
• Develop functional design documents in collaboration with developers and other analysts.
• Contribute to the end-to-end delivery of Oracle E-Business Suite Financials and BlackLine solutions along with developers, testers, database administrators, and application support analysts.
• Monitor, analyze, and advise on testing of application patches/upgrades.
• Configure application to meet business requirements.
• Work closely with developers on extensions and custom applications to translate business requirements into detailed system requirements and design. 
• Work closely with quality assurance analysts to develop and execute appropriate test strategies/plans. 
• Work closely with Business Analysts to understand business requirements and present/discuss technical solutions with the business.
• Monitor patch releases from Oracle and BlackLine and provide impact assessment to management. 
• Provide post-implementation support and functional abilities to assist the Operations Teams.
• Work collaboratively with the management team to assist them in managing priorities, resources, and cross project dependencies.