Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Oracle Fusion EPM Consultant with strong expertise in Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud and government business processes to support the analysis, design, , optimization, and continuous improvement of enterprise performance management solutions. The role requires a deep understanding of planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, close, reconciliation, reporting, metadata governance, and performance management, with a strong focus on public sector and government operating models.

The consultant will work closely with business users, finance teams, functional consultants, technical teams, solution architects, project managers, and implementation partners to translate government performance management requirements into effective Oracle EPM solutions that are compliant, efficient, scalable, and aligned with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and digital transformation objectives.

Key Responsibilities

EPM Strategy & Solution Leadership

• Lead end-to-end business and functional analysis activities for Oracle Fusion EPM Cloud implementations, enhancements, and support initiatives.
• Analyze current-state and future-state performance management processes across government functions and translate them into clear functional and business requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and working sessions with stakeholders to gather, validate, and prioritize planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and metadata governance requirements.
• Document business needs, process flows, use cases, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria for EPM solutions.
• Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, control weaknesses, and opportunities for automation, standardization, and improved performance visibility.
• Support business process reengineering initiatives to align government planning, reporting, and metadata governance processes with Oracle EPM best practices.
• Work closely with functional teams to ensure business requirements are accurately reflected in solution design and configuration.

Oracle Fusion EPM Application Support

• Support business analysis and solution design across Oracle Fusion EPM modules such as:
• Planning
• Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS)
• Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS)
• Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS)
• Tax Reporting Cloud Service (TRCS)
• Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service (PCMCS)
• Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS)
• Narrative Reporting
• FreeForm and custom EPM applications
• Understand Oracle EPM application capabilities and map them to government business requirements.
• Assist in defining configuration requirements, business rules, calculation logic, approval flows, metadata structures, and operational controls.
• Validate that Oracle EPM functionality supports statutory, operational, management, and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with functional consultants to ensure planning, consolidation, metadata governance, and reporting processes are configured correctly and efficiently.
• Support issue analysis, root cause identification, and resolution of business and functional defects.

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Expertise

• Analyze and document government-specific planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Support processes related to:
• Budget preparation and annual planning
• Multi-year financial forecasting
• Workforce and compensation planning
• Capital and operating expenditure planning
• Revenue and funding projections
• Scenario modeling and what-if analysis
• Budget allocation and version control
• Performance monitoring against approved budgets
• Understand public sector budget cycles, approval hierarchies, funding constraints, and fiscal governance requirements.
• Ensure planning processes align with government regulations, internal controls, and policy frameworks.
• Support transformation of manual or spreadsheet-based planning processes into standardized Oracle EPM workflows.
• Assist in defining controls for transparency, accountability, traceability, and compliance in budgeting and forecasting.

Consolidation, Close & Reconciliation

• Support financial close and consolidation processes using Oracle EPM Cloud solutions.
• Analyze and document consolidation requirements, including intercompany eliminations, ownership structures, currency translation, and journal adjustments.
• Support account reconciliation processes, balance validation, and close task management.
• Assist in defining close calendars, workflow dependencies, certification requirements, and exception handling.
• Validate that consolidation and reconciliation processes support auditability, accuracy, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with finance and accounting teams to improve close efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Support issue resolution related to consolidation logic, reconciliation mismatches, and close process delays.

Metadata Governance & Enterprise Data Management (EDMCS)

• Support enterprise metadata governance activities using Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS).
• Analyze and document requirements for chart of accounts, hierarchies, dimensions, reference data, and master data governance.
• Assist in defining metadata workflows, approvals, validations, and synchronization processes across EPM and source systems.
• Support the design and maintenance of dimension structures, node hierarchies, mappings, and version control processes.
• Ensure metadata changes are controlled, auditable, and aligned with enterprise governance standards.
• Collaborate with finance, master data, and technical teams to manage metadata lifecycle activities effectively.
• Support integration of EDMCS with Planning, FCCS, ARCS, and other Oracle EPM applications to maintain consistency across the enterprise.
• Identify opportunities to improve metadata quality, governance efficiency, and cross-application alignment.

Reporting, Analytics & Performance Management

• Support business reporting requirements including operational, management, statutory, and performance reports.
• Work with functional and technical teams to define reporting needs and validate outputs from Oracle EPM applications.
• Assist in designing dashboards, scorecards, management reports, and Narrative Reporting packs.
• Develop and maintain reporting structures that support executive summaries, commentary, variance explanations, and board-level reporting.
• Ensure business processes and system configurations support auditability, transparency, and regulatory compliance.
• Support preparation of evidence and documentation for audits, reviews, and governance checks.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting accuracy, timeliness, usability, and decision-making support.
• Support KPI definition, performance tracking, and variance analysis across planning and actuals.

Government Business Process Expertise

• Analyze and document government-specific business processes, policies, and compliance requirements.
• Support processes related to:
• Budget preparation and control
• Public expenditure management
• Financial planning and forecasting
• Fund allocation and utilization tracking
• Grants and program funding analysis
• Statutory reporting and compliance
• Performance monitoring and management reporting
• Multi-entity and multi-fund consolidation
• Understand public sector governance structures, approval hierarchies, audit requirements, and segregation of duties.
• Ensure business processes align with government regulations, internal controls, and policy frameworks.
• Support transformation of manual or legacy government processes into standardized Oracle EPM workflows.
• Assist in defining controls for transparency, accountability, traceability, and compliance.

Requirements Gathering & Documentation

• Prepare detailed business requirement documents, process maps, gap analyses, fit-gap assessments, and solution summaries.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements that can be used by functional and technical teams.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, solution design, testing, and deployment deliverables.
• Document business rules, calculation logic, exception handling, approval matrices, metadata governance rules, and reporting needs.
• Support preparation of training materials, user guides, and operational procedures.
• Ensure documentation is clear, complete, accurate, and aligned with project governance standards.

Testing & Validation

• Support unit testing, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and regression testing activities.
• Develop test scenarios, test scripts, and expected results based on business requirements.
• Validate Oracle EPM configurations, workflows, calculations, reports, metadata changes, and data loads against business expectations.
• Coordinate with business users during UAT and support defect logging, triage, and resolution.
• Verify that data integration, planning models, consolidation logic, metadata governance, and reporting outputs meet business and compliance requirements.
• Support cutover, go-live readiness, and post-implementation validation activities.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, functional teams, technical teams, and project leadership.
• Facilitate communication and alignment across departments, agencies, and implementation teams.
• Support change impact assessments and identify business readiness requirements.
• Assist in user adoption planning, training coordination, and stakeholder communication.
• Participate in governance meetings, design reviews, and project status updates.
• Build strong working relationships with government users and leadership teams to ensure successful solution adoption.

Data Integration, Controls & Compliance

• Support data integration requirements between Oracle EPM and source systems such as ERP, HCM, procurement, payroll, and external data repositories.
• Work with technical teams to define data mappings, transformation rules, validation checks, and reconciliation controls.
• Ensure business processes and system configurations support auditability, transparency, and regulatory compliance.
• Assist in defining controls for approvals, access, data integrity, calculation governance, metadata synchronization, and transaction monitoring.
• Support preparation of evidence and documentation for audits, reviews, and governance checks.
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, integration reliability, and control effectiveness.

Continuous Improvement & Support

• Monitor planning, consolidation, metadata governance, and reporting process performance and identify opportunities for optimization and automation.
• Support post-go-live stabilization, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Analyze recurring business issues and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain business process documentation, knowledge repositories, and support materials.
• Contribute to lessons learned, process standardization, and best practice adoption across programs.
• Support future enhancements, release impact assessments, and business readiness activities.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, Public Administration, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 8–12+ years of experience in business analysis, functional analysis, finance transformation, or enterprise application support.
• 5+ years of experience working with Oracle Fusion EPM Cloud applications or similar performance management platforms.
• Proven experience supporting government, public sector, or regulated enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reconciliation, reporting, and metadata governance processes.
• Experience in at least 2–3 full lifecycle Oracle EPM implementations or major transformation programs.

Mandatory Technical and Functional Expertise

• Oracle Fusion EPM Cloud application knowledge
• Planning, budgeting, and forecasting process design
• Financial consolidation and close process understanding
• Account reconciliation and close management knowledge
• Requirements gathering and documentation
• Fit-gap analysis and solution assessment
• Oracle EPM Planning, EPBCS, FCCS, ARCS, EDMCS, or Narrative Reporting exposure
• Government business process understanding
• Public sector governance and compliance awareness
• UAT planning and execution support
• Test scenario and script preparation
• Data validation and reconciliation
• Workflow and approval process understanding
• Metadata governance and hierarchy management
• Reporting and dashboard requirement analysis
• Change impact assessment
• Stakeholder management and workshop facilitation
• Strong documentation and presentation skills
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Understanding of controls, auditability, and segregation of duties

Preferred Skills

• Experience in government ministries, agencies, municipalities, authorities, or public sector enterprises.
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reconciliation, metadata governance, and performance reporting in government environments.
• Familiarity with Oracle EPM Cloud modules and their business process implications.
• Exposure to Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, Oracle SCM Cloud, or Oracle Analytics Cloud.
• Understanding of statutory reporting, audit requirements, and public financial management processes.
• Experience with process improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, or BPM.
• Knowledge of change management, training coordination, and user adoption strategies.
• Familiarity with data migration concepts and validation processes.
• Experience working in Agile, Hybrid, or Waterfall delivery environments.
• Ability to support business case development, benefits realization, and transformation planning.
• Exposure to Oracle reporting tools such as Smart View, OTBI, BI Publisher, or Narrative Reporting is an advantage.
• Understanding of integration concepts and how EPM processes interact with external systems.
• Experience with enterprise governance, policy compliance, and control frameworks.
• Experience with EDMCS for metadata governance, hierarchy management, and cross-application consistency.

Behavioral Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear requirements
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Collaborative mindset with a customer-focused approach
• Strong ownership, accountability, and follow-through
• Ability to work effectively in politically sensitive or regulated environments