Oracle Functional Lead

Sumitomo Mitsui Finance Dublin Limited (SMFD)
is a wholly owned subsidiary of SMBC and is growing rapidly as a Centre of Excellence for the bank's universal banking business across EMEA. It provides a range of technology and operational support services, aligned to SMBC's growth, innovation, and transformation strategies.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Oracle EPM Cloud Product Owner to join a leading financial institution in Dublin. You will play a central part in ensuring operational efficiency, data integrity, and seamless planning, budgeting, and reporting experiences across Oracle EPM Cloud platforms.

What you'll do

As an Oracle EPM Cloud Product Owner based in Dublin, you will be at the heart of the finance technology function. Your role will involve providing expert guidance on the use of Oracle EPM Cloud-covering Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Consolidation-while ensuring that all related systems operate seamlessly. You will collaborate with both technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver enhancements that drive efficiency and maintain accuracy in financial planning and reporting. Your responsibilities will include managing end-to-end implementations of new features or modules within the EPM Cloud environment, including
hands-on design and configuration duties
. You will also play a key part in troubleshooting complex issues, developing robust test plans for new releases or updates, and delivering tailored training sessions to empower end users. By maintaining close communication with various teams across the organisation as well as external partners, you will help ensure that all finance technology solutions align with evolving business requirements. Your ability to translate business needs into technical specifications will be crucial in delivering successful outcomes.

• Provide day-to-day functional support for Oracle EPM Cloud modules with a primary focus on Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Consolidation, ensuring smooth operations across EMEA offices.
• Lead the implementation, enhancement, monitoring, and maintenance of Oracle EPM Cloud solutions, driving operational efficiency and data integrity.
• Manage production support activities including
  hands-on design, configuration duties
  , troubleshooting issues, and resolving user requests promptly.
• Support all EPM-related integrations by collaborating closely with business users, IT staff, and external vendors to resolve issues efficiently.
• Deliver comprehensive training sessions to business users to ensure effective utilisation of EPM Cloud applications.
• Participate actively in EPM Cloud project implementations, rollouts, upgrades, and enhancements from inception through to completion.
• Gather, analyse, document, and manage business requirements; convert these into actionable system specifications that meet organisational needs.
• Develop test scripts and scenarios for user acceptance testing as well as system validation to guarantee robust solutions are delivered.

What you bring

• Extensive industry experience, including circa 15 years working with Oracle EPM solutions within finance organisations-ideally in the banking sector.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification demonstrating strong academic background relevant to finance or information technology.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following Oracle Cloud EPM products:
  EPBCS, ARCS, EDMCS
  .
• Proven track record of full life cycle implementation projects involving Oracle EPM Cloud with deep hands-on expertise in Planning, Budgeting, and Consolidation modules.
• Experience in the design and development of integrations between EPM and Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP, as well as other third-party applications and files.
• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise performance management processes including financial planning, forecasting, and close/consolidation cycles.
• Demonstrable experience in system implementation, production support activities, and ongoing maintenance of enterprise-level EPM applications.
• Solid knowledge of EPM Cloud features combined with basic SQL or data integration skills for troubleshooting.
• Ability to gather detailed business requirements from stakeholders; analyse them thoroughly; document clearly; manage throughout project lifecycle; convert into practical system specifications.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills enabling effective collaboration between business users and technical teams alike.

If you're interested, please apply

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