Oracle EPM Consolidation Lead (Manager)
Job Description
Oracle EPM Consolidation Lead (Manager)
The Role requires
- A strong delivery track record in Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close implementations (Oracle FCC) who can leverage business and technology-based solutions to deliver outcomes for our clients.
- System design and delivery, including release management, integration management, data migration strategy and management.
- Prior consulting experience on delivery financial consolidation and close processes for customer across different industries is a preferred requirement
- An understanding of Financial Services Organisation’s Target Operating Model, Process & Controls, Organisation Design, Change Management and Business Readiness is needed.
The person
- Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.
- Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm
- Builds strong global relationships and actively seeking out the global network’s best experts to
- address client needs
- Communicates compelling and well thought out solutions to complex problems
- Builds constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures
- Fosters a sense of self belief and confidence in others
- Seeks to understand other’s motivations
- Supports others to make brave decisions
Functional skills:
- An understanding of the financial close and consolidation process.
- Experience of multiple industry sectors (e.g. Higher Education, Retail, Insurance, Local Government etc.).
- Experience of multiple end to end implementation Oracle Finance Consolidation & Close (Oracle FCC) implementations including Oracle EPRCS (Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service) (Must have).
- Expertise with the technical design and solution configuration on large scale Oracle Finance Consolidation & Close (Oracle FCC) implementations.
- Proven expertise in review of functional and technical designs against business requirements and provide challenges where relevant.
- Significant exposure to Chart of Accounts & Data Model Design.
- Exposure to the EPM lifecycle including planning, budgeting and forecasting, enterprise wide KPI & reporting framework, profitability/cost analysis and experience with other EPM technologies would be desirable.
- Exposure to other EPM products such as EDMCS, ARCS, will be nice to have.
- Experience in Key finance and accounting processes that includes general accounting and corporate consolidation, financial planning and analysis, accounts payables and receivable, fixed assets, and Management Reporting is desirable.
- Broad knowledge of other Oracle Cloud product sets like ERP, SCM, HCM and Payroll solutions.
- An understanding of the functional, application and technical architectural elements of an Oracle Cloud EPM programme.
- Experience of operating and implementing in a cloud environment and understanding the impacts of implementing and operating on the cloud versus on premise.
- An appreciation of the influence of user experience-based design e.g. Personas, user journeys and how this can be used to augment a solution
- Manage the translation of clients technical and accounting requirements to Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close functional and technical solution design.
- Lead the application configuration in Oracle Financial consolidation and Close.
- Support the documentation of the solution’s test strategy and oversee the drafting of test scenarios and technical testing script.
- Lead end user training and conduct knowledge transfer of the solution to technical client teams.
- Lead the deployment of the solution to production and provide post go-live support.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
Professional skills:
- Excellent documentation, reporting and presentation skills in both a virtual and in person mode.
- Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to provide clarity to complex issues and synthesise large amounts of information.
- Experience producing project deliverables (business requirements, functional specs, configuration document, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices etc.).
- Highly proficient Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Projects.
- Excellent interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills.
- Fast learner with an ability to get up-to-speed in a short space of time.
- Ability to convey ideas and recommendations in a clear, compelling and succinct way in written and verbal communications.
- Good attention to detail and an ability to analyse and use data in decision making.
- Excellent organisational and multitasking skills with ability to balance competing priorities.
- Experience identifying, diagnosing and resolving issues independently; taking initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances.
- Anticipates need to re-prioritise; can shift gears and comfortably makes decisions based on new information.