Financial Systems Administrator

Metropolis Metropolis · Vertical AI · New York, NY +1 · Finance and Accounting

This role is for a Financial Systems Administrator who will manage Oracle Cloud EPM (EPBCS) and act as a liaison between FP&A and Data Engineering. The administrator will integrate non-financial KPIs from a data warehouse into financial forecasting models, requiring strong EPM architecture, SQL, and communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the end-to-end administration, configuration, and continuous optimization of the Oracle Cloud EPM suite (EPBCS)
  2. Design, build, and troubleshoot Essbase ASO/BSO cubes to support large-scale operational scenario planning
  3. Act as the primary technical translator between Finance and centralized Data/IT teams; partner with Data Engineering to define technical requirements, ensuring that data models in our data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake) are properly structured for seamless EPM ingestion
  4. Collaborate with data teams to ingest high-volume non-financial KPIs (e.g., transaction counts, location churn) into EPM planning cubes
  5. Troubleshoot integration workflows and perform root-cause analysis on data discrepancies using SQL and Python

Skills

Required

  • Oracle EPM (EPBCS/Planning) System Administration and development experience
  • SQL
  • Python
  • data integration tools (EPM Integration Agent, Data Management, EPM Automate)
  • modern cloud data structures
  • bridge the gap between technical data architecture and functional financial insights

Nice to have

  • Groovy scripting

What the JD emphasized

  • Must understand modern cloud data structures well enough to perform "handholding" and meaningful collaboration with Data Engineers