Senior Business Analyst | Oracle EPM Implementation

Job Type: 6-mo-contract

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

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.

• 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.

• 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

• Experience supporting Higher-Education institutions

• 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.