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Position overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Essbase Specialist to join our Finance Technology / EPM team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Oracle Essbase (on-premises and/or Cloud) and related Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools, with the ability to design, implement, and optimize complex analytical and reporting solutions. This role requires a strong blend of technical capability, financial acumen, and communication skills to partner effectively with finance stakeholders, IT teams, and business leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Development

  • Develop, enhance, and maintain Essbase cubes for financial consolidation, reporting, forecasting, and analytics.

  • Design calculation scripts, business rules, partitions, outlines, and load rules.

  • Implement data integration processes from ERP (Oracle Fusion / E-Business Suite / SAP, etc.) and other source systems into Essbase.

• Performance Optimization

  • Monitor and optimize cube performance, aggregation, and calculation times.

  • Conduct tuning of load rules, dimension structures, and database outlines.

• Business Partnering

  • Work with Finance, FP&A, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into Essbase design.

  • Support planning, budgeting, and reporting cycles by ensuring timely and accurate data availability.

  • Work at any stage on a business and technology transformation project.

  • Identify scope, define requirements and create functional and/or technical specifications. Use expertise to develop and support proof of concepts, estimates, and conceptual designs.

  • Coordinate the implementation of the solution and support change efforts.

  • Recognized for their deep functional, industry or offering expertise and domain knowledge.

• Support & Administration

  • Administer user security, application backup, patching, and version upgrades.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data loads, calculations, and reporting.

• Innovation & Roadmap

  • Advise on Essbase roadmap, including migration to Oracle EPM Cloud (EPBCS, FCCS, PCMCS, OAC Essbase).

  • Explore opportunities to integrate Essbase with modern reporting and analytics tools (Smart View, Narrative Reporting, BI Publisher, OAC).
     

Skills and Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle Essbase (ASO/BSO cubes) development and administration.

• Strong knowledge of MDX, calc scripts, load rules, report scripts, and Essbase partitioning techniques.

• Experience with Smart View and financial reporting tools.

• Proficiency in data integration tools (ODI, FDMEE, Data Management) and SQL.

• Good understanding of financial processes (budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, management reporting).

• Knowledge of EPM Cloud applications (EPBCS, FCCS, PCMCS, EDMCS) is a strong plus.

• Experience with performance optimization and troubleshooting of large Essbase applications.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or related field.

• Oracle EPM / Essbase certifications.

• Exposure to cloud migration projects (on-prem Hyperion to Oracle EPM Cloud / OAC Essbase).

• Familiarity with GenAI/agentic AI use cases in EPM for automation and reporting (nice to have in forward-looking roles).
   

Key Attributes

• Strong financial and analytical mindset.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a global team.

• Passion for continuous improvement and leveraging best practices.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
 

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