How to get hired
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is the on-premise ERP many Indian and global companies installed over the last two decades; release 12.2 is the one still in use. Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP is the newer software-as-a-service suite that most new projects choose. Oracle has extended Premier Support for EBS 12.2 through at least 2037, so EBS support jobs will last, while Fusion implementations and EBS-to-Fusion migrations are where most new project work sits.
Within either, roles split three ways:
- Functional: configure modules like General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Procurement, Inventory, Order Management or HCM.
- Technical: reports, interfaces, conversions and extensions. In EBS this is PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Reports, and workflow. In Fusion it's BI Publisher, OTBI, FBDI and HDL data loads, and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
- Techno-functional: both, common in EBS support teams.
From AP, AR or R2R at a shared services centre
Global capability centres and shared services firms in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai often run their finance operations on Oracle. If you process invoices in Payables or close the ledger there, you are learning the module as a user. Move to the internal Oracle support team, then to a consulting firm as a Fusion Financials functional consultant. Our guides to accounts payable and record-to-report cover those first roles.
From SQL and PL/SQL development
Developers who know SQL and PL/SQL well can move into Oracle EBS technical roles with relatively little retraining; EBS runs on the Oracle database. From there, add Fusion's tools (BI Publisher, OTBI, OIC) to stay current.
From campus
IT services firms, Oracle consulting partners and the Big 4 hire graduates into Oracle practices. Commerce graduates and CAs tend to land in Financials, engineers in technical or SCM roles.
Certification
Oracle University runs separate "Implementation Professional" exams for each Fusion Cloud area (for example General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Procurement), each with a year in its code that changes with new versions. Exam prices vary by country; one widely quoted figure is around US$245, so check the price in your Oracle University account before booking. Certifications are tied to versions, so an older one still shows knowledge but recruiters prefer the current year's.
What interviews check
- For Financials: the setup sequence (chart of accounts, calendar, ledger, legal entity, business unit), subledger accounting, and how a Payables invoice reaches the ledger.
- For SCM: procure-to-pay and order-to-cash flows, and how inventory transactions create accounting.
- For EBS technical: PL/SQL performance, interface tables and open interfaces, concurrent programs, a conversion you built.
- For Fusion technical: building a BI Publisher report, an FBDI load, and an OIC integration with error handling.
- For migration roles: what moves from EBS to Fusion as is, what gets redesigned, and how you reconcile balances after cutover.
Quarterly updates and project life
Fusion Cloud gets quarterly updates, and every customer has to take them. That creates steady work for consultants: read the readiness notes, test key processes in a test environment, switch on useful features, and fix anything that changed. EBS support is different: fewer forced changes, more patching, performance work and month-end support.
Like SAP finance roles, Oracle Financials consultants feel the client's month-end close, and many Indian teams work US hours for American clients. The ladder runs Consultant, Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant, Manager, Solution Architect; adding a second pillar (Financials plus Procurement, or HCM plus Payroll) is the usual way to move up.