Staff Oracle Cloud Security & Controls Lead - M&A Integrations

Join a high-impact Oracle Cloud security leadership role focused on M&A integrations, carve-outs, and legal entity onboarding. This contract opportunity is ideal for a seasoned professional who can shape secure access models, strengthen controls, and help ensure Day 1 readiness across Finance applications. Responsibilities

• Own Oracle Fusion security architecture and role design standards across Finance platforms, including job roles, duty roles, data roles, privileges, and data security policies.
• Define least-privilege access models and determine when roles should be reused, updated, or newly created.
• Design and govern security access across multiple ledgers, business units, and legal entities.
• Oversee security for reporting tools and service or integration accounts.
• Lead design reviews and approve role and access changes.
• Manage the security and access workstream for acquisitions, carve-outs, and legal entity onboarding from discovery through hyper care.
• Assess user populations, job responsibilities, organizational structures, and access requirements for acquired entities.
• Develop Day 1 access strategies and user-to-role mapping across Finance functions and related applications.
• Define transitional access needs and coordinate provisioning and deprovisioning during organizational changes.
• Create and maintain a repeatable security playbook for M&A integrations.
• Own technical access controls supporting SOX and ITrequirements in partnership with controls and audit teams.
• Design and maintain segregation of duties rules and sensitive access monitoring.
• Perform conflict analysis, support remediation, and help evaluate mitigating controls where needed.
• Design access review and certification processes.
• Partner with internal and external auditors on control design, testing, and evidence requests.
• Define provisioning architecture, including HCM-driven provisioning, approvals, auto-provisioning, and identity integration.
• Troubleshoot complex access, inheritance, and authorization issues.
• Lead testing for security roles across quarterly Oracle updates.
• Own security testing across CRP, SIT, and UAT, including access, data security, and end-to-end business process validation.
• Support mock cutovers, production readiness, Day 1 access validation, and hyper care transition.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to consultants, analysts, and implementation teams.
• Advise business and technology leaders on access risk, trade-offs, and remediation priorities.

• 10+ years of experience in Oracle application security, controls, or enterprise application support.
• 5+ years of hands-on Oracle Fusion Cloud experience.
• Strong expertise with Oracle Fusion Security Console and role-based access control.
• Deep understanding of job, duty, and data roles, along with security privileges and data security policies.
• Experience leading security efforts for a large Oracle Fusion implementation, M&A integration, or carve-out.
• Hands-on experience with segregation of duties analysis, conflict remediation, and mitigating controls.
• Working knowledge of SOX, IT and access control requirements.
• Experience collaborating with auditors and internal controls teams.
• Background supporting Oracle Fusion Financials and/or SCM processes.
• Experience with user provisioning architecture, security troubleshooting, and access governance.
• Ability to lead security testing, cutover planning, and production stabilization.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to explain technical access risks clearly to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Oracle Risk Management Cloud or similar GRC/access governance tools.
• Experience integrating Oracle security with SSO or identity platforms such as Okta.
• Background in global, multi-entity, multi-ledger environments.
• Experience securing related finance applications such as treasury, tax, or EPM platforms.
• Relevant certifications such as Oracle Cloud Security, CISA, or CISSP.

Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where people of all backgrounds can thrive. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from a wide range of experiences to apply.

Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $80 - $115 per hour based on qualifications and experience.