EPM System Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Manage FCCS application administration, including monthly change management requests, ensuring timely and accurate updates. - Lead and oversee enterprise-wide data governance, including integrity controls, audit readiness (SOX), and compliance with external/internal reporting standards. - Perform routine system data integrity checks and maintain governance files, including monthly checklists and consolidation calendars. Update tools to reflect evolving systems and reporting timelines. - Direct data conversion and annual restatement cycles: plan and interpret changes, ensure alignment with reporting requirements, conduct historical data verifications, and reconcile restated data to maintain integrity. - Investigate and resolve data variances arising from close inputs, system integrations, or metadata/calendar changes. Escalate and implement corrective actions as needed. - Lead development and implementation of system enhancements, including scripting, testing (with regression coverage), and involvement in new application launches. - Guide the Business Requirements Documentation (BRD) process from end to end, collaborating with cross-functional teams and third-party vendors to gather requirements, define architecture, and manage roll-outs. - Maintain the development reporting pipeline, prioritize workload, and manage dependencies across EPM and extended teams. - Provide strategic input on system design to support evolving reporting needs and participate in long-term planning for system upgrades and optimization. - Support internal and external audits by managing documentation requests and reviewing testing evidence to ensure SOX compliance. - Reconcile system calculations, including intercompany eliminations, NCI, equity accounting, cash flow, and constant currency. Deliver ad hoc data analysis for senior leadership, legal, tax, and business development. - Build and maintain SmartView/Ad Hoc reports and reporting books. Support CAO Close meeting materials and collaborate with business units to resolve reporting discrepancies and align data flows. - Educate users and provide guidance on operational processes, data workflows, and system changes. - Participate in special projects and contribute to the future development of the EPM application suite. SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS: - Advanced knowledge of Oracle EPM Cloud, specifically FCCS, including application administration, configuration, metadata management, data exchange mapping, scripting, SmartView reporting, and security management. - Demonstrated expertise in managing data flows, resolving errors, ensuring seamless integrations, and conducting data integrity checks across platforms. - Strong understanding of financial close processes, including internal and external reporting, intercompany transactions, restatements, legal entity reporting, and multi-period historical reconciliations. - Proficient in reconciling advanced accounting scenarios such as non-controlling interest (NCI), equity accounting, cash flow, and constant currency adjustments. - Skilled in interpreting and translating business requirements into system specifications and architecture. Proven experience leading the BRD process and managing regression testing, system enhancements, and user feedback cycles. - Ability to manage evolving metadata, calendars, and governance tools in alignment with data processing timelines and reporting schedules. - Excellent analytical and decision-making skills, with a strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues and apply best practices in system design and process optimization. - Strong leadership and team development capabilities, including goal setting, coaching, and expectation management. - Proficiency in MS Excel and VB scripting for financial modeling, automation, and reporting validation. WORK EXPERIENCE: - Typically, 10 or more years of increasing responsibility and complexity in terms of any applicable professional experience; 1 or more years of management experience. PREFERRED EDUCATION: - Typically, a bachelor's degree or global equivalent in related discipline. Master's degree or global equivalent a plus.