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 customers 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 seeks 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 include 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.