Senior Business Analyst, Oracle EPM Implementation

• 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 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 with implementation consultants and technical teams to translate requirements 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 while remaining primarily focused on functional Business Analysis.

Requirements

• 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.
• Recent implementation experience with one or more Oracle EPM technologies, including Oracle Cloud EPM, Planning/Planning Cloud, PBCS/EPBCS, FCCS, Narrative Reporting, ARCS/Account Reconciliation, Financial Reporting, Smart View, Hyperion Planning, Essbase, or other Oracle EPM modules supporting planning, forecasting, consolidation, or reporting.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in Business Analysis and Oracle EPM implementation, with a strong focus on requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and functional documentation. Proficient in translating business needs into actionable functional requirements and supporting system testing and user acceptance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Oracle EPM Implementation
• Requirements Elicitation
• Business Process Mapping
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Financial Reporting

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Business Analysis
• Functional Requirements
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• Process Documentation
• Testing Strategy
• Data Validation
• UAT Support
• Project Scope Definition
• Process Flows

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication
• Facilitation Skills

Industry Keywords

• Finance
• HR
• Enterprise Performance Management
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Planning
• Stakeholder Interviews
• Implementation Partners
• Functional Discovery
• Change Management

Tools & Technologies

• Oracle Cloud EPM
• Planning Cloud
• PBCS
• EPBCS
• FCCS
• Narrative Reporting
• ARCS
• Smart View
• Hyperion Planning
• Essbase