Senior Finance EPM Analyst

The Senior Finance EPM Analyst is responsible for maintaining and developing the Group's consolidated reporting system (Oracle EPM), working with Finance teams across the Group and the IT Department. The role ensures current reporting requirements are met and delivers incremental development work, while supporting reporting teams during monthly, quarterly and annual reporting cycles. The successful candidate will also act as a subject matter resource, provide training where required, and play an instrumental role in Flutter's Finance System transformation project, migrating the current on-premise Planning solution to Oracle EPM Cloud and expanding it to include additional Consolidation, Tax and Account Reconciliation modules.

• Maintain and develop the Group's consolidated reporting system (Oracle EPM), ensuring current reporting requirements continue to be met.
• Administer finance consolidation system, plan and support the implementation of incremental change initiatives.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the systems, related architecture and processes involving Finance across the Group, including inputs and outputs.
• Manage master data and develop/maintain reports and related input forms, including updates for annual IFRS disclosures and regulatory reporting.
• Provide support to the Finance user community and troubleshoot issues encountered during monthly, quarterly and annual reporting cycles.
• Engage with relevant projects to ensure business readiness and smooth handover from project to business-as-usual.
• Liaise with Finance teams across the Group to identify and design incremental system improvements critical to developing processes owned by or involving Group and local Finance teams.
• Prepare and maintain clear documentation of relevant processes, procedures and controls.
• Develop excellent working relationships across the Group to ensure quality service to internal customers.
• Act as a subject matter resource and provide training to reporting teams where required.

• Proactivity and innovation, with the capacity to take the initiative to identify improvements in processes and assist management in implementation.
• Proven experience in development and implementation of process improvement in a similar environment.
• Considerable experience of working within an accounting environment including development of financial reporting systems, procedures and controls.
• Highly numerate and analytical, with ability to interpret and present data clearly.
• Excellent PC skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.) with a strong appreciation of general ledger and consolidation systems, in particular advanced Excel and a good understanding of databases, data uploads, extraction, and interfaces with other systems.
• Experience with relational and multidimensional databases.
• Experience with EPM Systems (Hyperion, Onestream, Anaplan, Adaptive Insight, IBM Cognos, SAP BPC) implementation and support.
• Good understanding of data warehousing, ETL, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Big Data principles and Data Visualization.
• Advanced knowledge of ETL tools (e.g. ODI, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, DataStage etc.) and expertise in process design, improvement and automation.

• Experience in transitioning to Oracle EPM Cloud solution.
• Qualified accountant with experience in financial accounting, reporting and consolidation (highly desirable).