Senior EPM Systems Administrator

Job ID: 2502921

Location: RESTON, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-03-06

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Bus Solutions Eng

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC seeks an EPM Systems Administrator to support our team in Reston, VA. This position will be remote. As a member of the EPM Team, they will contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System used for both planning and reporting. SAIC systems include Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) accessed primarily through Oracle's Smart View client for Office.

***ship Required for this role***

Technical Needs:

• IT background and understanding of Financial budgeting and forecasting process and cycles for Government Contracting
• Strong knowledge of reporting tools including EPBCS (ASO models), Hyperion, Essbase, MDX required
• Extensive knowledge of application and database administration tasks, specifically Oracle Database Trouble Shooting
• Strong scripting knowledge in planning and Essbase - MaxL commands, Calculation Manager Rules (Groovy) Shared Services, SmartView and Financial Reporting, EPM Automation scripting Calculation Scripts, Report Scripts, Load Rules, Maxl Scripts and Windows batch script
• In depth knowledge in Data Management, Data Exchange, and Data Maps for data integration
• Hands on experience in requirement gathering and end to end implementation of Oracle Enterprise Planning & Budgeting
• Thorough knowledge and independent preparation of project documentations including Requirement gathering, Solution Design document, UAT scripts, training material preparations
• Preferred Technical Skills EDMCS and ODI

Functional Needs:

• Sound understanding in Basic Accounting & Financial consolidation process
• In-depth understanding of Planning & Budgeting process of an Organization and map with Oracle Solution
• Integral member of the business process reengineering team for the continuous development and enhancement of the system to support direct and indirect annual planning/rolling forecast models using Hyperion EPM
• Oversight of the financial reporting systems that support Corporate and Operational planning, reporting and analysis
• Governance of the approach for maintaining the system reporting structures including reporting hierarchies and dimension members that support new or updated metrics for reporting
• Analyze and prepare details to support the development team in accommodating significant business events with system implications such as reorganizations, acquisitions and like events
• Support EPM user community with Oracle Smart View and Oracle Web forms and use of these tools within the context of business processes and SAIC norms
• Work with interested parties to ensure that technical efforts meet the functional requirements of the company
• Support the roadmap for future EPM implementations and development
• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and the user community regarding system related efforts and disposition of requests for new features or enhancements
• Ensure that system development is aligned to the planning and reporting calendar and adequately supports the business requirements
• Other advocacy and outreach activities to ensure that the system continues to support the evolving business
• Support internal projects to standardize business intelligence and reporting solutions for the SAIC environment
• Support the FP&A group to reengineer/develop reports and analyses relating to the monthly close and quarterly reporting requirements
• Proficiency with various reporting tools including, EPM Financial/Narrative Reporting and Oracle Smart View for Office against EPM
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions to diverse teams namely, technical, business and management team
• Coordinate the implementation and provide recurring and rollout training of existing and new system processes and functionality to the user community
• Research and substantiate actionable bug and issue reports for inclusion in the system backlog

Deliverables: Monthly/Semi-Annual, Annual

• Annually/Quarterly - Preparation for planning/forecasting and ensuring model readiness for business processes. AOP, FPRP and Target Forecasts
• Additional reporting requirements as needed

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors and five (5) years or more of related experience; Will consider additional four (4) years of experience in lieu of a degree
• ship required
• Experience going through two end to end cycles of system implementation
• Experience with Government Contract Accounting, FAR & CAS regulations and concepts, required
• Understanding of planning/forecast government contracting business processes
• Extensive experience with various reporting tools including EPBCS (ASO models), Hyperion, Essbase, Groovy scripting, MDX required
• Strong understanding of Financial Statements (P/L, B/S, C/F)
• Team player and strong verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced skills in MS Excel

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.