EPM Consultant – Group Financial Reporting & Consolidation

About This Role

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced EPM Consultant with deep Group Financial Reporting and Consolidation expertise to support the implementation of Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) across our healthcare group. The successful candidate will work alongside the FCCS technical consultant as the finance subject-matter authority — translating group reporting requirements into robust system design, safeguarding implementation quality, and ensuring the solution remains aligned with IFRS, group accounting policies, and long-term maintainability.

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role that combines technical accounting depth with strong system configuration and project oversight capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

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

The candidate must be fully comfortable working with — and able to demonstrate, configure, and validate — the FCCS solution across the following areas, which form the core of our consolidation and group reporting requirements:

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

Preference will be given to candidates whose finance technical expertise demonstrably aligns with the focus areas listed above. During screening and interview stages, candidates should be prepared to walk through specific FCCS configurations and prior implementation scenarios covering PPA, FCTR, cash flow automation, ownership changes, IFRS 18 transition, and flexible notes/narrative reporting.