The consultant must have personally performed federal budget formulation, planning, and forecasting work in a prior role — building budget submissions, running planning cycles, developing forecasts — and brings that firsthand functional expertise to lead solution design on Oracle Cloud EPM Planning. Own the functional design of annual and multi-year budget formulation cycles: initial budget requests, program submissions, baseline estimates, spend plans, workforce and compensation projections, capital and investment planning, scenario modeling, and budget reviews/approvals.