Director, EPM Systems

Description:

• Lead projects and be the liaison with Finance and Accounting process owners to manage system capabilities, and enhancements.
• Solution design and execution of a long-term systems solution for Consolidations supporting US GAAP, FP&A covering modeling, planning, and reporting needs.
• Manage and lead cross functional teams in the identification of business requirements workshops, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures.
• Responsible for diagnoses and resolving application issues as part of the on-going support and maintenance of Hyperion suite of applications.
• Assess potential new systems and technical tools options for the business, providing guidance on the most relevant solution for each business scenario.
• Continuously improve data quality and integrity within systems and links with other internal systems.
• Perform historical data verification and reconciliation of results and support FP&A, and accounting team with planning and close cycles.

• Deep process, technical, and development experience in any of the two Hyperion modules (Hyperion Planning, FCCS, and Tax Provision) and motivated to learn and take responsibilities in other process areas.
• Demonstrated experience with external (US GAAP) and management reporting process.
• Ability to develop Hyperion Planning and or Consolidation environments, including outlines, load rules, calculation scripts, allocations, partitions, web forms, reports, and security.
• Working knowledge of Accounting and Finance processes especially interunit eliminations, planning allocations etc.
• Understanding of underlying ERP processes and informational flow that support Consolidations, Tax Provision and FP&A process.
• Experience in explaining process and data reconciliation challenges to Finance users and executives in their own terms.
• Minimum 12 years hands on experience with implementation and supporting the process and systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting is preferred or equivalent required.

• Understanding of Data warehouse BI Systems
• Exposure to Statistical tools like SPSS, SAS, MATlab
• Consulting background
• PMP Certification