Senior Oracle Fusion EPM Consultant

About this role

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…