Oracle EPM / FCCS

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Principal Business Systems Analyst Oracle EPM Cloud

FCCS 4+ years must

Shift type : UK

Remote work

About Equinix

Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the leading global interconnection platform and the world's largest data center provider. With more than 145 data centers on five continents and $3+ billion in annual revenue, we dream big and hire people who want to help us build a historically significant company.

We are looking for a bright and enthusiastic Manager with Cloud EPM application skills. Join the team and shape the future SAAS ecosystems for Enterprise applications at one of America's Fastest Growing Technology Companies (Forbes).

Opportunities

Equinix offers wide-ranging opportunities in Information Technology. It is currently implementing Oracle SaaS-PaaS ERP application ecosystems. This position will allow work in a culture that thrives on innovation and delivering results while building solid relationships with technologists and the Business community.

About The Group

Enterprise Applications -The corporate team at Equinix focuses on implementing the next-generation software applications for Equinix to scale and support Equinix's internal ecosystems.

About The Position

Works with Business Groups to define their global technology roadmaps. Manages projects from inception to completion with matrix, and global teams Reports the status of projects or issues to upper management. contributes input to budget planning. Responsible for hiring, developing his teams, and managing business stakeholder relationships.

This position acts as a critical liaison between the company's financial functions including Corporate Controllership, Regional Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Business Assurance, and the company's IT organization.

Responsibilities

• Partners with team members and vendors to gather requirements
• Is respected by business for deep, cross functional business process expertise and innovative solutioning across platforms and systems/architectures
• Able to distill executive level requirements into appropriate discovery work plans and guide team members on good requirements gathering

• Partners with team members and vendors to model business processes
• Is respected by business for driving innovative process improvements
• Able to communicate process improvements at implementation and executive level

• Supports senior stakeholders and management team in identifying, communicating to senior stakeholders
• Is recognized by senior managers as a skilled communicator, trusted to recognize and proactively manage key impacts and drive issue resolution
• Demonstrates value from realized projects

• Responsible to design strategic cross-functional and global solutions that align with long-term organizational goals and roadmaps
• Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, to ensure that good design practices are followed
• Is recognized as expert within the industry
• Establishes standards

• Supports senior management by creating architecture, project management and roadmap documentation

• Develops functional design standards and methodologies to deliver robust, agile functional designs that may span multiple functional areas and applications
• Recognized for innovative, deep, and long-term designs
• Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities
• Develops functional designs in line with an Enterprise Architecture and the long-term business roadmap
• Collaborates with cross-functional business and IT teams to ensure business needs are addressed in the functional designs
• Manages delivery scope and risks, and sets right expectations with stakeholders
• Mentors junior BSAs to produce functional designs

• Application/integration architecture; constructs solutions across multiple functional areas and applications

• Develops test strategy and execution to cover testing in an optimal amount of time
• Ensures cross-functional testing coverage
• Organizes test labs for repetitive testing
• Drives methodology and best practices for defect resolution and triaging
• Ability to manage multiple cross-functional projects running in parallel
• Optimizes release management to strike a good balance between business goals and delivery capacity
• Ability to logically split bigger projects into value-added releases to gain business value in progression
• Identifies and manages risks in release delivery

• Designs configurations methodology to drive consistency, robustness, speed, and good governance

• Monitors and manages support metrics and trends for functional areas
• Drives team toward root cause identification and resolution

• Drives appropriate practices through collaboration with business
• Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve

• Manages/leads individual consultants or consulting teams as assigned
• Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups
• Is accountable for creating and negotiating vendor contracts, MSA/SOW, License Agreements, and driving through internal reviews with GTS leadership and Legal teams

• Executes and guides large-scale vendor evaluations by BSA staff, vets recommendation, and negotiation communications for executive review
• Responsible for executive communications and cross-functional stakeholder buy-in
• Brings thought leadership to influence technology roadmap and decisions

Minimum Qualifications:

• Worked as IT Leader, IT Principal Analyst, Lead Business Partner, and Client related to Oracle EPM Applications.
• Hands-on experience in designing, configuring, and scripting for FCCS application implementation and maintenance
• Participated in multiple implementation projects in EPM applications
• 8 to 15 years of experience in the Consolidation/EPM/Hyperion applications
• Designed and delivered multiple end to end Solutions in EPM applications
• Worked in a couple of other Oracle fusion EPM application modules like EDMCS, TRCS, ARCS, and PCMCS
• Have in-depth finance functional knowledge to understand business requirements and convert them into technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's / Master's in Engineering, Accounting or Business preferred
• Expertise in implementing and supporting financial systems
• Expertise in implementing and supporting Oracle ERP Cloud
• 10+ years of experience working within the finance and accounting organization of a large multinational company
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Willingness to travel occasionally if needed