Associate Manager, Application Management, Data Management, Global EPM Cloud Systems COE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Facilitate data governance processes across the enterprise, ensuring the integrity, consistency, and adherence to internal controls and reporting standards.

• Supervise and conduct regular system and data integrity assessments, including the maintenance of governance files, monthly validation efforts, and monitoring the consolidation calendar.

• Organize and implement annual restatement and data conversion projects, encompassing historical validation, reconciliation, and documentation of reporting effects.

• Examine, address, and manage the resolution of data discrepancies stemming from close submissions, changes in metadata, system integrations, and reporting modifications.

• Maintain and oversee governance tools, metadata frameworks, calendars, and associated documentation.

• Manage the development, testing, and deployment of system enhancements and process improvements, including regression testing and user validation.

• Gather business requirements and convert operational needs into system and reporting solutions.

• Provide support for audits, handle documentation, manage evidence repositories, and address SOX compliance/testing requests.

• Perform reconciliations and validations for intercompany eliminations, equity accounting, cash flow, non-controlling interests, and constant currency reporting.

• Create, sustain, and manage SmartView, Ad Hoc, and reporting book outputs.

• Offer ad hoc reporting, analysis, and data support to Accounting, Legal, Tax, Treasury, and Business Development teams.

• Act as a subject matter expert on EPM governance processes, operational workflows, reporting standards, and Narrative Reporting.

• Train users on data governance, metadata management, and reporting procedures.

• Oversee the annual data restatement cycle, which includes evaluating, validating, loading data, and communicating impacts and outcomes.

• Coordinate special projects and future-oriented process improvement initiatives related to enterprise reporting and data governance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Generally requires 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience in financial systems, enterprise data governance, financial reporting, or EPM administration.

• Solid understanding of Oracle EPM Cloud applications (FCCS, Planning, EDM, Narrative Reporting), including metadata management, data governance processes, SmartView reporting, and reconciliation tasks.

• Experience in coordinating and supporting enterprise financial closing and consolidation processes in a global reporting context.

• Advanced comprehension of financial reporting concepts, such as intercompany processing, legal entity reporting, data presentation in P&L and Balance Sheets, restatements, and historical reconciliations.

• Experience in coordinating and executing data validation, variance analysis, and reconciliation tasks across integrated financial systems using SmartView.

• Capability to coordinate the gathering of business requirements, testing coordination, and process documentation initiatives.

• Strong knowledge of SOX controls, audit support processes, and governance documentation prerequisites.

• Experience in managing and maintaining metadata structures, reporting calendars, and governance tools aligned with financial reporting schedules.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting validation techniques.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to conduct root-cause analysis.

• Ability to balance operational accountability with strategic continuous process improvement efforts.

• Excellent grasp of industry practices.

• Strong proficiency with tools, systems, and procedures.

• Effective planning and organizational skills and techniques.

• Strong decision-making abilities, analytical and problem-solving skills with the capacity to manage multiple tasks.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong presentation and public speaking abilities.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Strong conflict resolution capabilities and the ability to communicate difficult messages.

• Ability to cultivate partnerships at all levels within the organization and externally.

• Good negotiation skills.

• Project management and consultative skills, with the ability to oversee a budget.

• A Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.

• Travel typically less than 10%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage.

• 401K Plan with Company Match.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) [or sick leave if applicable].

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Income Protection.

• Work-Life Assistance Program.

• Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Educational Benefits.

• Worldwide Scholarship Program.

• Volunteer Opportunities.