Senior Analyst - Oracle

Aberdeen; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Analyst with expertise in Oracle EPM Cloud to enhance their financial planning and reporting processes. The role involves leading implementations and supporting stakeholders, promoting an inclusive culture and flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and relevant certifications.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits including gym discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Oracle EPM Cloud.
• Solid understanding of financial planning processes.
• Experience with Hyperion Planning and Essbase is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead Oracle EPM Cloud implementations.
• Support legacy Hyperion Planning environments.
• Optimize financial planning and reporting capabilities.

Skills

Oracle EPM Cloud

Problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Agile Practices

Education

Oracle EPM or Hyperion certifications

Tools

Smart View

SQL

Job description

time left to apply End Date: August 21, 2025 (16 days left to apply)

job requisition id R0073084

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.

Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the department:

Aberdeen’s Finance Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office, this is responsible for managing Aberdeen's core Finance systems with Oracle being its Strategic tool of choice. Aberdeen is live with Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA) & Oracle EPM Cloud solutions, including Planning, Financial Consolidation & Close (FCCS), and Enterprise Data Management (EDM). We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us to further enhance our systems architecture over the next 3 years and embed and enhance ways or working.

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Analyst with proven experience in Oracle EPM Cloud and preferably Hyperion Planning to support our enterprise performance management initiatives. This role will be central to enhancing financial planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities, working closely with finance and IT teams to deliver scalable and efficient solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of Oracle EPM Cloud implementations, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.

Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for Oracle EPM modules, advising finance and IT stakeholders on best practices and system capabilities.

Support legacy Hyperion Planning and Essbase environments, including maintenance, upgrades, and migration planning to Oracle EPM Cloud.

Design and maintain complex financial models, business rules, and calculation scripts to support planning, forecasting, and consolidation processes.

Develop and manage integrations between EPM and ERP systems (e.g., Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle Data Management, FDMEE).

Conduct impact assessments for system changes and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and governance standards.

Monitor system performance and proactively identify opportunities for optimization and automation.

Lead user acceptance testing (UAT), training sessions, and workshops for finance teams and business users.

Collaborate with external consultants and Oracle support to resolve complex technical issues and implement new features.

Contribute to the development of the EPM roadmap and participate in strategic planning for enterprise performance management initiatives.

Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across planning and reporting environments.

Stay informed on Oracle EPM product updates, industry trends, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and continuous improvement.

About the Candidate:

Extensive experience with Oracle EPM Cloud (e.g., PBCS, EPBCS, FCCS, EDMCS).

Solid understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and consolidation processes.

Proficiency in Smart View, EPM Automate, and data integration tools (e.g., Data Management, FDMEE).

Working knowledge of Hyperion Planning and Essbase is highly desirable.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

Strong stakeholder management and effective communication skills

Knowledge of Agile Practices

Ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvements and achieving efficiencies

Ability to manage competing demands and work across multiple projects

Strong organisational skills, with an ability for problem solving

Experience in leading and supporting more junior colleagues

Oracle EPM or Hyperion certifications.

Experience with scripting (e.g., Groovy, SQL) and automation tools.

Familiarity with Agile or hybrid project delivery methodologies

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere .

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture , where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.

time left to apply End Date: August 21, 2025 (16 days left to apply)

time left to apply End Date: August 22, 2025 (17 days left to apply)

About Us

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. You can find out more about what we dohere .

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs.