EPM/ERP Transformation Lead – Finance, Cloud Transformation

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EPM/ERP Transformation Lead guiding the cloud finance transformation for enterprise clients. Driving complex, multi-year program with cross-functional teams in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 4/22/2026contractSan Diego • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $90 - $100 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudERPOracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the primary domain expert and program lead for the EPM/ERP cloud transformation, guiding strategy, sequencing, and execution across workstreams.
Lead cross-functional program team coordination across finance, technology, and business stakeholders, driving accountability and momentum throughout the transformation lifecycle.
Manage program roadmap, milestones, risks, and dependencies to maintain clarity and forward progress in a complex, matrixed environment.
Engage directly with senior leadership, preparing executive readouts, steering committee materials, and progress updates.
Bring deep, hands-on knowledge of EPM and ERP cloud implementations to guide process fit-gap analysis, design decisions, and vendor/platform evaluation.
Advise Chart of Accounts redesign and how it connects into the EPM and planning architecture (FP&A, forecasting, and reporting).
Help the steerco think through what to automate, what to rethink, and how to move from legacy processes to cloud-native best practices.
Speak credibly to Oracle Cloud EPM/ERP or equivalent platforms, drawing on prior implementation experience to inform solution design.
Drive a dedicated workstream focused on the connection of planning, forecasting, and reporting processes into a cohesive, cloud-native EPM architecture.
Partner with finance and FP&A stakeholders to align transformation solutions with operational, reporting, and compliance requirements.
Identify opportunities to improve process efficiency, reduce cycle times, and enable better decision-making through the new platform.
Support program mobilization efforts to ensure the work is ready to be executed on day one of FY27; standing up operating rhythms, governance structures, and building team norms.
Drive change management efforts to help business teams understand transformation impacts and build organizational readiness for the new system and processes.
Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder alignment forums across finance, technology, and executive leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in EPM/ERP cloud transformation, finance transformation, or enterprise technology consulting, with a strong track record of seeing complex implementations from strategy to execution.
Deep understanding of the EPM landscape: how planning connects to forecasting, reporting, and FP&A, and how to implement it the right way in a cloud-native environment.
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud EPM/ERP or equivalent platforms; Oracle experience strongly preferred.
Familiarity with Chart of Accounts redesign and how upstream ERP architecture feeds downstream EPM and reporting.
Demonstrated knowledge of finance domain terminology and processes across Record-to-Report, FP&A, and planning cycles.
Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional program teams through multi-year transformation programs in complex, matrixed organizations.
Experience in standing up program governance, operating rhythms, and mobilization plans from the ground up.
Strong executive communication skills with an ability to prepare and present materials to C-suite and senior leadership with clarity and confidence.
Comfortable managing ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving scope across a long-horizon program.
High degree of ownership and accountability, someone who takes initiative, follows through, and drives outcomes without waiting for direction.
Operates with velocity and a bias toward action, while maintaining breadth of view across a full program.
Strong cross-functional collaborator who can engage across finance, technology, and executive stakeholders, bringing everyone along through both push and pull.
Comfortable engaging with IST time zone on occasion to support global program coordination.
West Coast-based required; Mountain View, CA or San Diego, CA preferred.

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Hard Skills & Tools

EPMERPcloud transformationprocess fit-gap analysisChart of Accounts redesignOracle Cloud EPMFP&Aforecastingreportingprogram governance

Soft Skills

executive communicationcross-functional collaborationchange managementinitiativeaccountabilityproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadershipstakeholder engagementstrategic thinking