[Hiring] EPM Developer and Administrator Financial Systems @National Laboratory of the Rockies

Role Description

National Laboratory of the Rockies’ (NLR) Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) is seeking a full-time Financial Systems Professional. This role reports within the Business Systems group and supports Financial Planning & Analysis. The role focuses on direct support and maintenance of our financial planning system Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, developing enhancements, and service tickets, daily support, month end and year end close processes while also contributing to data governance, troubleshooting issues, and assisting with optimizing system structure for improved analytics and performance across the enterprise. As well as assisting and developing training materials for stakeholders.

The analyst will collaborate with NLR Information Technology Services (ITS) data team for data governance, delivery of OCFO data, and troubleshooting EPM system errors.

Key Responsibilities

• Administrator of EPM Systems. Take initiative to work collaboratively. Establishes positive working relationships across organizations.
• Manage the EPM system for OCFO to include security permissions, respond to user requests, systems updates, troubleshooting as needed.
• Ensure nightly, month-end, and yearly processes run smoothly, troubleshoot and update system as necessary to maintain operations as intended.
• Responsible for collaboratively working with ITS on software development activities including authoring of requirements, solution specifications, test plans; development and testing of custom software solutions.
• Provide technical input and recommendations on specific software solutions.
• Support business units by researching issues and questions to determine root cause, identify course of action and bring issue/question to resolution.
• Adhere to the software development process including utilizing iterative design approaches and concepts, creating, and filing appropriate documentation as prescribed by the process. Utilize the standardized support tools established for IT.
• Manage your time and daily activities to satisfy work assignments, performance, and deliverables. Communicate status of work assignments.
• Implement best practices for EPM administration.
• Adherence to Cyber Security guidelines for the proper security management and administration of EPM.
• Manage multiple purpose-driven EPM “pods” regularly.
• Coordinate and support regression testing of EPM monthly patching cadence.
• Coordinate and support major updates of EPM.
• Troubleshoot any process and integration issues between EPM and any other systems.
• Implement and follow proper approval workflows for user management.
• Rigorously manage EPM Identity Domain administrative accounts and access.

Qualifications

• Professional Level V - Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 14 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 12 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.
• Professional Level IV - Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.
• Eligibility requirements: This position will require access to Controlled Unclassified Information which may include restricted dissemination requirements based on citizenship.
• * Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

Requirements

• High level of experience in technical, administrative, functional, and development aspects Oracle EPM Cloud.
• Groovy scripting experience and understanding.
• Knowledge of SmartView and EPM Automate.
• Expertise in administering integrations between on-premises and Cloud EPM by leveraging available tools including EPM Automate.
• Ability to build positive working relationships across the organization, service oriented.
• Experience writing technical specifications for work to be performed by other developers.
• 5+ years of recent and relevant experience as an EPM technical, administrative, functional and development for on-premise (Hyperion) and Cloud EPM.
• Cloud EPM experience is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in leading full scope solutions delivery through analysis, design and development of integrations, extensions, user interfaces, reports and workflows within EPM.
• Understanding of full cycle SDLC or Agile methodologies, with a focus on quality, development standards, and change control.
• The candidate must have the ability to design and implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and perform at a high-level to meet the service levels associated with mission-critical EPM application.
• Excellent impact-analysis skills and discipline.
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and an ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences.
• Clear understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and respective experience with its application in design and development phases.
• Excellent understanding of coding methods and best practices.
• Familiarity with code management software including Git and familiarity of job scheduling in Github runner.
• 2 years of proven work experience with a wide base of knowledge of data management principles, methodologies, and frameworks including master data management, data security, data dictionaries, metadata management, data governance, and data quality.
• Proficiency in business process mapping, solution design, and data analysis.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience with reporting tools for analyzing datasets (Excel) and database languages (SQL).
• Excellent organization, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work well in a cross-organizational team environment.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter that gets excited about proactively solving problems.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Pension benefits.
• 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match.
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• Personal time off (PTO) and sick leave.
• Paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• NLR employees may be eligible for performance-, merit-, and achievement-based awards that include a monetary component.
• Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement.