Senior Financial Systems Analyst — Oracle EPM & FP&A Leader

Western Alliance Bank; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership stake

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401k matching

Tuition assistance

Employee volunteer program

Wellness program

Job summary

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a Senior Financial Systems Analyst to drive financial planning, budgeting, and strategic analysis. You will optimize EPBCS planning, manage data flows, and support Smart View reporting for FP&A and accounting teams.

You will collaborate with Finance leadership and IT to ensure data integrity, governance, and scalable system solutions while guiding monthly forecasts and annual budgeting cycles.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of related experience in Financial Analysis, Accounting, Finance (GL Mgmt., Public Reporting, Analysis) or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office with advanced Excel capabilities including Pivot Tables, SUMPRODUCT, INDEX/MATCH.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of financial planning and analysis concepts, financial reporting and disclosure concepts.
• Intermediate speaking and writing communication skills.
• Certified Public Accountant preferred.
• Chartered Financial Analysts preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support Oracle EPM Cloud administration and EPBCS planning and reporting environments.
• Maintain metadata, dimensions, hierarchies, forms, dashboards, reports, and business rules.
• Execute monthly, quarterly, and annual planning, forecasting, and reporting processes.
• Assist with testing Oracle EPM monthly updates, enhancements, patches, and configuration changes.
• Partner with Finance leadership and IT on security, access reviews, change management, and governance.
• Load, validate, reconcile, and certify financial and operational data in EPBCS.
• Support data integrations from Accounting, Treasury, ALM, HR, data warehouse, and other sources.
• Investigate data quality issues and reconcile differences between source systems, EPBCS, Smart View reports, and outputs.
• Document key data flows, dependencies, control points, and recurring monthly processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate data preparation, validation, and reporting activities.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Oracle Smart View templates, reports, ad hoc retrievals, and recurring analyses.
• Train and support FP&A, Accounting, and business users on Smart View functionality and standards.
• Troubleshoot Smart View connections, retrievals, submissions, formatting, and data refresh issues.
• Create documentation, user guides, SOPs for recurring financial systems processes.
• Support monthly forecast, annual budget, long-range planning, and variance analysis.
• Partner with FP&A to translate needs into scalable system solutions.
• Assist with financial data analysis and recurring management reporting packages.
• Support close and forecasting deadlines by coordinating data readiness and issue resolution.
• SOX, audit, access management, data governance and documentation for financial processes.
• Maintain documentation and evidence for recurring close, forecast, budget and reporting activities.
• Recommend and implement process improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy and adoption.
• Collaborate with IT, Oracle Support, vendors and business partners to resolve issues.

Skills

Financial analysis

Accounting

Finance (GL Mgmt., Public Reporting, ×

Banking operations knowledge

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Advanced Excel

FP&A concepts

Communication skills

CPA preferred

CFA preferred

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Masters or MBA preferred

Tools

Oracle EPM/EPBCS

Smart View

Job description

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a Senior Financial Systems Analyst to drive financial planning, budgeting, and strategic analysis. You will optimize EPBCS planning, manage data flows, and support Smart View reporting for FP&A and accounting teams.

You will collaborate with Finance leadership and IT to ensure data integrity, governance, and scalable system solutions while guiding monthly forecasts and annual budgeting cycles.