Financial Systems Program Manager
NerdWallet
CloudERPOracle
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
CloudERPOracleOracle ERP
About the role
- Design and deliver Oracle EPM cloud solutions for our Finance community.
- Provide input to help guide the development of project solutions, as well as address user questions and concerns regarding the functionality of their Oracle EPM suite - FCCS, EDMCS, TRCS
- Be comfortable with articulating solution proposals to all levels of management and end users.
- Develop credibility and relationships with client stakeholders.
- Cultivate strong business relationships with key stakeholders (mostly in the U.S.)
- You will be comfortable working with globally dispersed I.T. teams and senior business leadership being predominantly based in the U.S.
- Analyze functional and operational issues reported by our users with their Oracle EPM environment and provide the solution or workaround on time
- Perform root cause analyses and recommend meaningful updates to the following functional and operational items: dimensionality and hierarchies, business rules code, metadata properties, data forms and reports, data management processes and others as needed
- Provide input to help guide the development of project solutions, as well as address user questions and concerns regarding the functionality of their Oracle EPM suite - FCCS, EDMCS, TRCS
- Take a lead in system design and delivery, including release management, integration management
- Assist in testing, monthly patch validation, and environment refresh activities
- Be responsible for managing the quality and timely delivery of specified artefacts
- Lead daily, weekly and monthly interactions with senior stakeholders - both business and IT.
- Ideally, lead discussions, and articulate options and recommendations to complex issues.
- Confidently discuss technical and non-technical issues.
- Monitor and support junior EPM team members and accelerate their EPM knowledge development through coaching and mentoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field.
- Certifications in Oracle Fusion, EPM applications are a plus.
- A minimum 8+ years of leading Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Should have played Solution Architect role or a Work Stream Lead role in these projects for FCCS, EDMCS & TRCS. Supporting and building solutions in these EPM modules.
- Must have extensive experience of EPM modules - FCCS, EDMCS & TRCS. Plus advanced proficiency in SmartView reporting.
- Other Oracle Financials modules such as General Ledger & EPM areas such as Narrative Reporting and EPM Automate are a plus.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to lead the requirements elicitation, perform fit-gap analysis, write functional specifications, development, configuration, functional testing, and post-production support.
- Excellent communication - verbal / presentation and written plus interpersonal skills, English is a must. Must be able to lead discussions with senior stakeholders e.g. present solution options.
- Document the functional design, process flows, architecture diagram and solution approaches through analysis of business benefits/KPIs of recommended approaches
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and provide effective solutions.
- Strong adherence to SAFe delivery methodology / AGILE background
- Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills
- Design and collaborate with other IT technical team members to architect and drive projects - analyse business requirements, identify gaps, arrive at gap closure approaches, determine pros and cons of technical approaches and document design specifications
- Conduct meetings with business users and IT personnel and publish status and progress reports. During projects, clearly communicate project task status to key stakeholders.
- Comfortable in conducting large workshops and demos with business leaders and process owners and drive the design boards in a sprint tool with sufficient exposure to agile methodology
- Teamwork-oriented with a strong focus on customer satisfaction
- Comfortable to work across time zones – bulk of business community in US region
