Senior Oracle Analyst - EPM

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Analyst to enhance financial planning and reporting capabilities using Oracle EPM Cloud. This role requires extensive experience with Oracle tools and the ability to lead implementation projects. The candidate should possess strong problem-solving skills and be able to mentor junior colleagues. Benefits include substantial annual leave, a significant pension contribution, and multiple flexible work options.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits like gym discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Oracle EPM Cloud.
• Working knowledge of Hyperion Planning and Essbase is highly desirable.
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead full lifecycle Oracle EPM Cloud implementations.
• Serve as SME for Oracle EPM and legacy Hyperion environments.
• Drive system optimisation and governance.

Skills

Oracle EPM Cloud

Proficiency in Smart View

Data integration tools (e.g., Data Management, FDMEE)

Scripting (e.g., Groovy, SQL)

Job description

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 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 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 full lifecycle Oracle EPM Cloud implementations from requirements gathering through to post-go-live support.
• Serve as SME for Oracle EPM and legacy Hyperion environments, advising stakeholders and managing upgrades and migrations.
• Design and maintain financial models, business rules, and calculation scripts to support planning, forecasting, and consolidation.
• Develop and manage integrations between EPM and ERP systems, ensuring seamless data flow and process alignment.
• Drive system optimisation and governance, including performance monitoring, impact assessments, and alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Facilitate user engagement through UAT, training, and workshops, while staying current on product updates and industry trends.

About the Candidate

• Extensive experience with Oracle EPM Cloud.
• 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.
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvements and achieving efficiencies.
• Experience in leading and supporting more junior colleagues.
• Experience with scripting (e.g., Groovy, SQL) and automation tools.

We’re 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.

Our benefits

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 benefits here.

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 do here.

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

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.