Oracle EPM Consolidation Lead (Manager

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.).

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