Oracle EPBCS / Oracle EPM Cloud administration

Job Title: Oracle EPBCS / Oracle EPM Cloud administration 

Location: Buffalo, NY

Duration: 6-12 months

Responsibilities:

Qualifications (Required)

• 8+ years of hands-on Oracle EPBCS / Oracle EPM Cloud administration and application support experience, including production support, incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, environment migrations, and release management.
• Strong expertise in FP&A business processes, including budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, workforce planning, capital planning, management reporting, and month-end/quarter-end close support.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Oracle EPBCS application components, including:
  • Business Rules (Calculation Manager)
  • Data Forms
  • Task Lists
  • Security and Provisioning
  • Dimensions and Metadata
  • Substitution Variables
  • Smart View reporting and templates
  • Data load and validation processes
• Experience performing application administration activities, including:
  • Metadata deployments
  • Monthly and annual application rollovers
  • Security maintenance
  • Workflow administration
  • Migration of objects across Development, Test, and Production environments
  • Patch analysis and release coordination
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise financial system integrations, including data flows between Oracle EPM and upstream/downstream applications.
• Hands-on experience executing and supporting:
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • System Integration Testing (SIT)
  • Regression Testing
  • Production validation
  • Oracle monthly patch testing and impact assessments
• Strong understanding of:
  • Financial planning data structures
  • Dimensional modeling
  • Metadata governance
  • Master data management
  • Financial hierarchies and reporting structures
• Ability to analyze system defects, assess business impact, document solutions, and drive issue resolution through to production deployment.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Banking or financial services industry experience.
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS).
• Experience supporting Oracle Smart View and management reporting solutions.
• Familiarity with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and enterprise integration architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale Planning, Forecasting, Profitability, Performance Management, or Financial Reporting platforms.