Financial Consolidation & Data Lead - Finance Transformation (Oracle FCCS)

Key Responsibilities

• Provide functional expertise across financial consolidation and group reporting.
• Define requirements for statutory, management and regulatory reporting.
• Work with complex group and subsidiary structures, including multi-entity and multi-currency environments.
• Support the design of future consolidation processes, including subsidiary trial balances, mappings, adjustments and reporting.
• Analyse and reconcile complex financial data across entities and systems.
• Support Chart of Accounts, entity structures, hierarchies and financial mappings from a consolidation and reporting perspective.
• Support financial data gathering, cleansing, mapping, validation and migration.
• Define reconciliation and validation requirements to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Work closely with Finance SMEs and the System Integrator to translate accounting and reporting requirements into the future solution.
• Review and challenge proposed designs to ensure they meet Finance, reporting and control requirements.
• Support testing, dry-runs, cutover and readiness for go-live.
• Engage with senior Finance stakeholders, subsidiary teams and programme workstreams to resolve issues and make clear recommendations.

Essential Experience

• Strong financial consolidation and group reporting experience within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of statutory and management reporting.
• Experience working with group/subsidiary structures and consolidated financial statements.
• Strong understanding of financial data, including Chart of Accounts, entity hierarchies, mappings and trial balances.
• Experience of financial reconciliations, consolidation adjustments and data validation.
• Experience supporting a major finance transformation, ERP implementation or financial systems change.
• Ability to translate Finance requirements into functional system/process requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to challenge solution designs and implementation partners.

Desirable Experience

• Qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Oracle Fusion Financials experience.
• Oracle FCCS experience.
• Experience migrating from Legacy consolidation/reporting systems.
• Higher Education, public sector or similarly complex regulated environment experience.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is likely to come from a Group Finance, Group Reporting, Financial Consolidation or Finance Transformation background and has subsequently worked on major finance systems transformation programmes.

We are not looking for a purely technical EPM/FCCS consultant.

The priority is someone who understands how consolidation works from a Finance perspective, how the underlying financial data needs to be structured and mapped, and how those requirements translate into a new finance system.

Experience of FCCS would be beneficial, but it is not the core requirement.