Senior Business Analyst | Oracle EPM Implementation
Location: Remote
Type: Contract
Start: ASAP
Focus: Oracle EPM Implementation, Financial Reporting, Requirements & Functional
Design
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with recent, hands-on Oracle EPM
implementation experience to support a client currently progressing through an Oracle
implementation and moving into the next phase of Enterprise Performance Management
(EPM) and reporting.
This role will sit at the intersection of business stakeholders, functional teams,
implementation partners, and technology teams. The ideal candidate is a strong functional
Business Analyst who can bring structure to an evolving implementation by leading
requirements discovery, defining scope, documenting future-state processes, and
translating business needs into clear functional requirements.
This is more of a BA role than a PM role. The client needs someone who can step into the
functional side of the implementation, ask the right questions, organize complex needs,
and help drive Oracle EPM and reporting work forward.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead requirements gathering sessions with Finance, HR, business stakeholders,
technical teams, and implementation partners.
- Define and document business, functional, and reporting requirements for Oracle
EPM.
- Help establish and refine project scope, priorities, dependencies, and functional
workstreams.
- Translate business needs into detailed functional requirements, user stories, use
cases, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
- Develop current-state and future-state process flows.
- Support the design and implementation of Oracle EPM functionality and reporting.
- Partner with business users to define reporting, forecasting, planning, budgeting,
and performance-management needs.
- Identify gaps between current processes and Oracle EPM capabilities.
- Work closely with implementation consultants and technical teams to ensure
requirements are correctly translated into system configuration and solutions.
- Support testing strategy, test scenarios, UAT, defect resolution, and implementation
readiness.
- Assist with data validation, reporting validation, integrations, and business process
alignment.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings and help drive decisions when requirements or
scope are unclear.
- Support change management, user readiness, documentation, and go-live
activities.
- Provide light project coordination where needed, while remaining primarily focused
on functional Business Analysis.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of Business Analysis, Business Systems Analysis, or equivalent functional
systems experience.
- Hands-on Oracle EPM implementation experience within the last 5 years.
- Experience participating in an Oracle EPM implementation from requirements and
scoping through testing and go-live.
- Strong experience with requirements elicitation, stakeholder interviews, workshops,
and functional discovery.
- Demonstrated ability to define and document project scope.
- Experience creating BRDs, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance
criteria, use cases, and process maps.
- Strong experience supporting system testing and UAT.
- Experience working directly with Finance and/or HR stakeholders.
- Strong functional understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting,
planning, or enterprise performance management.
- Ability to translate business needs into functional requirements for implementation
teams.
- Experience working with implementation partners, vendors, consultants, and
internal technical teams.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills.
- Oracle EPM Experience
- Candidates should have recent implementation experience with one or more Oracle
EPM technologies, such as:
- Oracle Cloud EPM
- Planning / Planning Cloud
- PBCS / EPBCS
- FCCS
- Narrative Reporting
- ARCS / Account Reconciliation
- Financial Reporting
- Smart View
- Hyperion Planning
- Essbase
- Other Oracle EPM modules supporting planning, forecasting, consolidation, or
reporting
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle Cloud implementations or migrations from legacy Hyperion
environments.
- Experience supporting financial reporting transformation.
- Experience with Finance and HR-related reporting requirements.
- Experience with integrations between Oracle EPM and ERP, HRIS, data warehouse,
or reporting platforms.
- Experience with data mapping, reconciliation, validation, or reporting design.
- Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid implementation methodologies.
- PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Oracle, or related certifications are a plus.