Manager, Financial Systems

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Office

POSITION SUMMARY

The Manager, Financial Applications is a hands-on functional applications role responsible for the functional administration, configuration, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise Essbase applications supporting corporate management reporting, financial close, and related Finance processes.

Reporting to the Director, Financial Applications – Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), this role serves as a primary functional and technical subject matter expert for Essbase applications and works closely with Corporate Finance, Accounting, business Finance teams, and Information Technology to ensure financial reporting solutions are reliable, accurate, well-controlled, and responsive to evolving business requirements.

The successful candidate will combine strong knowledge of Essbase with an understanding of financial reporting processes and data. The role requires the ability to work directly with application configurations, metadata, hierarchies, calculations, data loads, integrations, reporting solutions, and business users to troubleshoot issues and implement sustainable solutions.

This individual will play an important role during monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and reporting cycles and will be expected to independently diagnose and resolve complex application and data issues within time-sensitive Finance processes.

In addition to ongoing application responsibilities, this role will serve as a key financial applications resource supporting business transactions and organizational changes. The individual will partner with Finance, Accounting, M&A, IT, and transaction teams to implement reporting changes, support data addition or separation, and maintain reporting continuity throughout the transaction.

• Support enterprise Essbase applications used for corporate management reporting, financial close, and related Finance processes.
• Maintain and enhance Essbase application configurations, including dimensions, hierarchies, metadata, member properties, calculations, data load rules, security requirements, reporting structures, and related application components.
• Monitor application and data processes and proactively identify issues that could affect reporting accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
• Perform application maintenance and configuration changes in accordance with established change management and control procedures.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of application architecture, configurations, data flows, business rules, dependencies, and reporting requirements.
• Maintain application documentation, operating procedures, configuration standards, and support knowledge.

• Support Essbase applications and reporting processes throughout monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial close cycles, serving as a key escalation point.
• Partner with Corporate Finance and Accounting teams to understand reporting requirements and translate those requirements into appropriate application configurations and solutions.
• Investigate differences between source financial data, Essbase results, and downstream reports and identify root causes.
• Evaluate downstream impacts of metadata, hierarchy, mapping, calculation, and data changes before implementation.

• Independently investigate and resolve complex application, data, calculation, reporting, and integration issues, escalating where necessary.
• Work collaboratively with IT and other technical teams when issues involve environments, infrastructure, source systems, integrations, performance, or other technical components.
• Design, configure, test, document, and implement enhancements to Essbase applications and reporting processes.
• Identify opportunities to simplify application configurations, eliminate technical debt, improve performance, and enhance supportability.
• Support modernization of existing Essbase capabilities and adoption of Oracle EPM Cloud or Free Form capabilities where appropriate.

• Support Essbase reporting and application requirements associated with corporate actions, including metadata, hierarchy, mapping, calculation, reporting, data load, and integration changes resulting from business or organizational changes.
• Analyze the impact of organizational changes on Corporate and business reporting and help…