EPM Consultant – Group Financial Reporting & Consolidation

Role Overview

Implementation Partnership & Solution Quality

• Work closely with the FCCS implementation consultant throughout all phases of the project — design, build, test, deploy, and hypercare.
• Proactively identify, assess, and escalate project risks and dependencies; ensure timely mitigation to keep the implementation on track.
• Critically evaluate proposed solutions and challenge any design choices that deviate from leading practice or are likely to result in excessive post-implementation maintenance, manual workarounds, or technical debt.
• Act as the bridge between Finance and the implementation team, ensuring business requirements are accurately and completely reflected in the system.

System Configuration & Mapping

• Drive and review chart of accounts mapping, entity structure, intercompany matching rules, ownership management, currency translation rules, and consolidation logic within FCCS.
• Translate group accounting policies and reporting requirements into effective and sustainable system configurations.
• Validate metadata, data loads, calculation rules, and reports against expected accounting outcomes.

Group Reporting & Consolidation

• Lead the design and review of the financial close and consolidation process within FCCS, including journals, intercompany eliminations, minority interest, equity pickup, and consolidation adjustments.
• Ensure multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation requirements are accurately configured and reconciled.
• Support the design of the group reporting pack and draft financial statements (including Excel outputs aligned with existing reporting templates).

Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate with both local and international business units to gather requirements, validate mappings, and ensure consistent application of group accounting policies.
• Liaise with auditors, group finance, and regional finance teams as required during design, UAT, and parallel runs.

Training, Enablement & Handover

• Deliver FCCS training and awareness sessions for finance users at group, regional, and entity level.
• Develop user documentation, SOPs, and reference materials to support adoption and ongoing operation of the platform.
• Support knowledge transfer to the in-house finance team to ensure self-sufficiency post go-live.

Technical Focus Areas — FCCS Solution Demonstration

Purchase Price Allocation (Ppa)

• Incorporation of PPA into the system at the time of acquisition.
• Handling of PPA adjustments and finalization changes occurring later (e.g., after the measurement period).

Foreign Currency Translation Reserve (Fctr)

• Automated calculation of FCTR within FCCS.
• Impact of FCTR on the Profit & Loss, OCI, Statement of Changes in Equity (SOCI/SOCE), and Statement of Cash Flows (SOCF).
• Line-wise FCTR reporting capability within the system.

Cash Flow Statement Preparation

• Generation of the cash flow statement with maximum automation from source data.
• Incorporation of FCTR impacts within the cash flow statement.

Disposal & Ownership Changes

• Treatment of subsidiary disposals within the consolidation.
• Management of changes in ownership percentages, including step acquisitions, partial disposals, and dilutions.

Acquisitions & Organizational Structure Changes

• Onboarding of newly acquired subsidiaries within the group structure.
• Organizational restructuring scenarios, including movement of a subsidiary from one parent to another within the group.

Reporting Pack & Financial Statement Outputs

• Generation of a detailed reporting pack aligned with our existing Excel-based consolidation reporting pack.
• Production of separate Excel outputs for draft financial statements.

Narrative & Notes Reporting Flexibility

• Flexibility in managing narrative reporting and financial statement notes across reporting cycles.
• Aggregation or disaggregation of note line items, insertion of new notes or tables, and incorporation of audit comments and adjustments.
• Ability for a standard finance user to perform such updates efficiently (within minutes) without heavy IT intervention.

Transition To Ifrs 18

• Approach to transitioning consolidation from IAS 1 to IFRS 18, recognizing that 2025 opening balances were prepared under IAS 1.
• Configuration approach to accommodate the transition without compromising historical comparability.

Flexibility In Financial Statement & Notes Design

• Adaptability of the solution to evolving FS structure and notes presentation during implementation.
• Ability to absorb changes driven by management alignment, audit feedback, and emerging market interpretations of IFRS 18.

Qualifications & Experience

• **Professional qualification:**
• Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA, or ACCA — required.
• **Experience:**
• 5–10 years of relevant post-qualification experience in group financial reporting, consolidation, and EPM consulting.
• **FCCS implementations:**
• Demonstrable involvement in at least 3–5 full-cycle Oracle FCCS implementations end-to-end (requirements through hypercare).
• **Industry preference:**
• Healthcare sector experience strongly preferred; multi-entity, multi-geography group exposure essential.
• **Technical accounting:**
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS, including IFRS 3, IFRS 10, IAS 21, IAS 7, and the transition from IAS 1 to IFRS 18.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Deep understanding of financial close processes, intercompany eliminations, multi-entity and multi-currency consolidations, and group reporting principles.
• Strong analytical capability — particularly the ability to translate complex financial processes into clean, sustainable system configurations.
• Hands-on familiarity with FCCS metadata, dimensions, rules, data management, Smart View, and Financial Reporting / narrative reporting tools.
• Working knowledge of integration touchpoints with source ERPs and feeder systems.
• Comfort working with FS templates, reporting packs, and notes design — including the ability to influence and refine these during implementation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently with senior finance leadership, auditors, and global business units.
• Project discipline — able to track progress, raise risks early, and hold both internal and partner teams accountable to plan and quality.

Engagement & Reporting

• The role will work in close partnership with the FCCS implementation consultant and report into Group Finance leadership.
• The candidate will be expected to coordinate across local and international entities throughout the project lifecycle.

Candidate Evaluation Note