Senior Oracle EPM Specialist

Job Title: Senior Oracle EPM Specialist

Role Summary This critical role is responsible for ensuring smooth financial operations throughout the close cycles by maintaining the stability, security, and high performance of Oracle GL and Oracle EPM environments. The EPM Specialist will absorb knowledge transfer from implementation partners and serve as the primary operational lead for Financial Consolidation and Close - FCCS, Account Reconciliation - ARCS, Profitability and Cost Management - PCMCS, and Enterprise Data Management - EDMCS. A core aspect of the job involves collaborating cross-functionally with IT and business teams to understand downstream system impacts, manage critical system handshakes, and oversee regular maintenance. Partnering closely with Financial Systems leadership, you will help translate the strategic roadmap into reality. 

Key Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional System Execution: Work closely with finance, IT, and cross-functional teams to implement roadmap initiatives and evaluate downstream impacts.


• Troubleshooting & Resolution: Investigate and resolve data load, mapping, validation, and calculation issues. Track and resolve recurring or critical issues through Oracle Service Requests


• Financial Module Ownership: Define and own the functional configuration roadmap for key financial modules, including General Ledger.


• Compliance and System Configuration: Directly design and configure Oracle Fusion to ensure enforcement of critical financial compliance standards (e.g., ASC 606/IFRS 15, SOX).


• Data Integration Management: Administer Data Exchange pipelines, import/export definitions, and update EDM subscriptions to keep metadata aligned. Manage calculation rules, consolidations, and cash flow mappings.


• Maintenance & Patching: Review release notes and perform patch regression testing on monthly EPM patches, promoting updates safely across DEV, TEST, and PROD pods.


• System Support & Operations: Manage and monitor user access control, including assigning predefined and application roles. Provide functional support during close cycles, assisting users with application navigation, workflows, and Smart View queries.


• PCMCS & Profitability Management: Maintain and configure Profitability and Cost Management (PCMCS) applications, managing allocation rules, cost assignment logic, and data model builds.


• Solution Architecture & Development: Partner with leadership to design, build, and optimize scalable EPM data models and solutions. Translate business requirements into technical architecture and execute complex development work across FCCS, ARCS, PCMCS and EDMCS.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

• Active Oracle Cloud EPM Certification(s) (e.g., Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS), Account Reconciliation (ARCS), Enterprise Data Management (EDMCS), Profitability and Cost Management (PCMCS) or EPM Data Integration).


• Strong hands-on experience managing and supporting core Oracle Cloud EPM modules, specifically FCCS, ARCS, EDMCS, and PCMCS.


• Proven ability to manage daily operations, including integrations, consolidations, and reconciliations.


• Exceptional troubleshooting skills, specifically regarding Smart View installations, connection settings, and resolving setup conflicts.


• Experience managing user security, access roles, and maintaining compliance governance.


• Ability to perform monthly/quarterly close operations and execute environment health checks.


• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional IT and business teams to evaluate inbound and outbound data flows and build architectural solutions.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).


• Familiarity or experience with Oracle Tax Reporting (TRCS), as future roadmap capabilities may expand into this area.


• Experience with Risk Control Matrix (RCM) functionality to monitor Segregation of Duties (SOD) controls between ERP and EPM systems.


• Prior experience with other Finance Planning tools (e.g., PBCS, Adaptive Planning, Planful, Pigment, OneStream, etc is a plus).

• Conceptual understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), or Agentic AI frameworks