Oracle Essbase Specialist – Accenture Australia
Accenture is a leading global skilled services company dedicated to helping clients build and optimize their digital core. We are looking for a highly skilled Essbase Specialist to join our Finance Technology / EPM team in Melbourne, Victoria.
Position Overview
As an Essbase Specialist you will design, develop, and optimize complex analytical and reporting solutions for financial consolidation, reporting, forecasting, and analytics. You will partner with finance stakeholders, IT teams, and business leaders to translate requirements into Essbase designs, support planning and budgeting cycles, administer security and upgrades, and advise on migration to Oracle EPM Cloud.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Essbase cubes for financial consolidation, reporting, forecasting, and analytics.
- Develop calculation scripts, business rules, partitions, outlines, and load rules.
- Implement data integration processes from ERP (Oracle Fusion, E-Business Suite, SAP, etc.) into Essbase.
- Monitor and optimize cube performance, aggregation, and calculation times; tune load rules, dimension structures, and database outlines.
- Work with Finance, FP&A;, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into Essbase design.
- Administer user security, application backup, patching, and version upgrades; troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data loads, calculations, and reporting.
- Advise on Essbase roadmap, including migration to Oracle EPM Cloud (EPBCS, FCCS, PCMCS, OAC Essbase).
- Explore opportunities to integrate Essbase with modern reporting and analytics tools (Smart View, Narrative Reporting, BI Publisher, OAC).
Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Oracle Essbase development and administration.
- Strong knowledge of MDX, calc scripts, load rules, report scripts, and Essbase partitioning techniques.
- Experience with Smart View and financial reporting tools.
- Proficiency in data integration tools (ODI, FDMEE, Data Management) and SQL.
- Good understanding of financial processes (budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, management reporting).
- Knowledge of EPM Cloud applications (EPBCS, FCCS, PCMCS, EDMCS) is a strong plus.
- Experience with performance optimization and troubleshooting of large Essbase applications.
- Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or related field (preferred).
- Oracle EPM / Essbase certifications (preferred).
- Exposure to cloud migration projects (on‑prem Hyperion to Oracle EPM Cloud / OAC Essbase) – nice to have.
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