Chart of Accounts (CoA) Lead

Job Overview & Responsibilities The Chart of Accounts (CoA) Lead serves as the functional design authority for Oracle Fusion enterprise structures and the Chart of Accounts within the organization’s Fusion Cloud ERP transformation. This role owns the design and configuration of legal entities, ledgers, business units, balancing segments, accounting hierarchies, Subledger Accounting, and financial master data governance. Federal compliance, controlled-data, and export-control requirements are established by the Federal Compliance Lead and Legal, Security, and Export Compliance teams. The CoA Lead translates those requirements into scalable financial structures, accounting processes, reporting models, data-segregation requirements, and implementable Oracle Fusion design decisions.This is a functional design and configuration role rather than a policy-authorship or security-administration role. The CoA Lead defines how financial information is structured, accounted for, governed, and reported, while partnering with the Security & Access Architect on implementation of access controls. Responsibilities Enterprise Structures Design Lead the design and configuration of legal entities, ledgers and ledger sets, business units, balancing segments, accounting calendars, currencies, and accounting conventions. Design structures that support global commercial operations, government-contract activity, statutory and management reporting, and financial consolidation. Partner with HCM, Procurement, Supply Chain, Projects, Tax, Security, and other workstream leads to maintain consistent enterprise structures across Oracle Fusion. Determine whether government-contract activity requires separate ledgers, business units, segment values, or reporting hierarchies to support cost segregation, controlled-data requirements, and contractual reporting. Own cross-workstream financial-structure design decisions and govern post-approval changes through formal change-control processes. Chart of Accounts & Financial Governance Lead the design of the Oracle Fusion Chart of Accounts, including segments, value sets, hierarchies, cross-validation rules, and segment-value governance. Design a CoA that supports statutory, management, executive, project, and government-contract reporting while avoiding unnecessary operational or controlled information within the account structure. Partner with project accounting and government-contract accounting leads to define indirect cost structures, including fringe, overhead, and G&A accounts, pools, and allocation bases. Support allowable and unallowable cost segregation, contract-cost reporting, and financial structures aligned with DCAA accounting-system adequacy requirements. Establish governance for creating, modifying, approving, and retiring segment values and reporting hierarchies. Define and enforce design principles that limit unnecessary CoA complexity and uncontrolled growth in account combinations. …