
Senior Systems Analyst, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Crown Castle
- Houston, TX
- $106,400-146,200 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- EPM Solution Implementation: Lead the design, configuration, and implementation of EPM solutions to meet the organization's financial reporting and analysis needs. Participate in vendor analysis and selection.
- Financial Transformation: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for financial process improvement and transformation initiatives.
- Requirements Gathering: Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their financial reporting requirements and translate them into EPM system specifications.
- Data Integration: Manage data integration efforts to ensure seamless data flow between EPM systems and other financial applications and databases.
- Training and Documentation: Develop training materials and provide training sessions to end-users to ensure efficient utilization of EPM tools.
- Financial Modeling: Build and maintain financial models for forecasting, budgeting, and scenario analysis.
- Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough testing and quality assurance to ensure the accuracy and reliability of EPM reports and data.
- Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve technical issues, system errors, and user inquiries related to EPM systems.
- Best Practices: Stay current with industry best practices and emerging trends in EPM and financial analytics to provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Project Management: Provide accurate estimates of effort, help manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful EPM system implementations. Communicates updates and escalates issues which may affect project success.
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of EPM system configurations, processes, integrations, and workflows.
- Application Ownership: Continuously monitor and optimize EPM systems to enhance performance, usability, and reliability
- Continuous Improvement: Manage the ongoing vendor releases and work closely with business partners to ensure timely testing, issue resolution and release to the production environment
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to technical teams and business users across multiple levels of the organization
- Work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business challenges from strategy to execution
- Disrupt, continuously improve, scale efficiencies, and evolve ways of working
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive as well as the ability to promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams
- BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, or other related technical discipline
- Certification in relevant technologies and EPM systems is a plus
- Certifications in relevant Finance & Accounting disciplines is a plus
- 8+ years’ experience leading implementations for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Functional domain knowledge in Finance: operating models and supporting organization structures, reporting, analysis, and process best practices
- EPM software experience such as Oracle Cloud EPM, Oracle Hyperion, SAP BPC, Anaplan, or similar platforms.
- Knowledge of data extraction/integration tools such as Oracle Integration Cloud, BICC, Visual Builder, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, SAP Integration Services or AWS Glue
- Solid scripting knowledge for writing consolidations, translation logic, business rules, data management, and EPM automation
- Development experience in building metadata, business rules, data reconciliation and others
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Project management experience and familiarity with Agile methodologies.