Oracle EPBCS / Oracle EPM Cloud administration - Buffalo, NY- Contract

Oracle EPBCS / Oracle EPM Cloud administration
Location: Buffalo, NY- 3 days in office. NO REMOTE
Duration: 6-12 months 

Responsibilities:

Qualifications (Required)
•    8+ years of hands-on Oracle EPBCS / Oracle EPM Cloud administration and application support experience, including production support, incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, environment migrations, and release management.
•    Strong expertise in FP&A business processes, including budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, workforce planning, capital planning, management reporting, and month-end/quarter-end close support.
•    Demonstrated experience supporting Oracle EPBCS application components, including:
o    Business Rules (Calculation Manager)
o    Data Forms
o    Task Lists
o    Security and Provisioning
o    Dimensions and Metadata
o    Substitution Variables
o    Smart View reporting and templates
o    Data load and validation processes
•    Experience performing application administration activities, including:
o    Metadata deployments
o    Monthly and annual application rollovers
o    Security maintenance
o    Workflow administration
o    Migration of objects across Development, Test, and Production environments
o    Patch analysis and release coordination
•    Experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise financial system integrations, including data flows between Oracle EPM and upstream/downstream applications.
•    Hands-on experience executing and supporting:
o    User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
o    System Integration Testing (SIT)
o    Regression Testing
o    Production validation
o    Oracle monthly patch testing and impact assessments
•    Strong understanding of:
o    Financial planning data structures
o    Dimensional modeling
o    Metadata governance
o    Master data management
o    Financial hierarchies and reporting structures
•    Ability to analyze system defects, assess business impact, document solutions, and drive issue resolution through to production deployment.
•    Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
•    Bachelor''s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline.
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Preferred Qualifications
•    Banking or financial services industry experience.
•    Experience with Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS).
•    Experience supporting Oracle Smart View and management reporting solutions.
•    Familiarity with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and enterprise integration architectures.
•    Experience supporting large-scale Planning, Forecasting, Profitability, Performance Management, or Financial Reporting platforms.