Senior Manager, Financial Systems, EPM

IRB USA Inspire Resources; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspire is seeking an experienced EPM Program Manager in the United States to lead the Oracle Fusion EPM Cloud environment (EPBCS, EPCM, FCCS, ARCS, EDMCS) for multiple brands. You will translate financial priorities into team goals, set delivery schedules, and supervise a growing EPM team across close, planning, budgeting and reporting functions.

Collaborating with Finance & Accounting, you will ensure data governance, metadata management, and effective SDLC documentation while driving

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of relevant EPM, accounting, or finance technology experience, including demonstrated ability to supervise, coach, and prioritize the work of a systems support team or project workstream.
• Bachelor’s or 4-year degree in Management & Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting, or Finance.
• Experience supporting financial systems in a multi-entity, multi-brand, or comparably complex business environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational support, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the assigned Oracle Fusion EPM Cloud applications (EPBCS, EPCM, FCCS, ARCS, and EDMCS).
• Translate Financial Systems priorities and functional plans into team goals, work assignments, operational processes, and delivery schedules.
• Set priorities for the EPM team, assign work, monitor commitments, and ensure timely completion of application support, close-cycle, enhancement, and project activities.
• Supervise and develop EPM team members through coaching, performance feedback, training, and adherence to established team expectations.
• Partner with Finance & Accounting stakeholders to support external reporting, management reporting, budgeting and planning, line of business reporting, and allocations reporting.
• Maintain a working understanding of EPM application design, integrations, metadata, accounting structures, and end-to-end data flows.
• Oversee execution of established metadata, hierarchy, data-governance, security, and control processes within assigned EPM applications.
• Ensure required SDLC documentation is completed and maintained to company standards for assigned changes, enhancements, and projects including, but not limited to, creating user requirements, system impact assessments, test plans, test scripts, training plans, communications plans, end user guides, standard operating procedures (SOPs), RAID logs, status reports, data migration plans, etc.
• Evaluate operational issues, coordinate root-cause analysis, and implement or recommend solutions consistent with established architecture, policies, and control requirements.
• Coordinate with Accounting, Finance, Project Management, IT, and other Financial Systems teams in the initiation and planning phases of new projects by gathering project data and requirements and providing input on project activities and timing.
• Help identify and resolve project-related risks and issues.
• Escalate material business, control, resource, or architectural concerns to leadership.
• Participate in the evaluation of the project by giving input for post-project evaluations and lessons learned.
• Recommend improvements to EPM processes, procedures, controls, and service delivery based on operational experience and stakeholder needs.

Skills

Finance systems

Stakeholder comms

Leadership

Analytical skills

GAAP knowledge

Organizational skills

Process improvement

Coaching

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/CS/Eng/Accounting/Finance

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manage operational support, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the assigned Oracle Fusion EPM Cloud applications (EPBCS, EPCM, FCCS, ARCS, and EDMCS) .
• Translate Financial Systems priorities and functional plans into team goals, work assignments, operational processes, and delivery schedules.
• Set priorities for the EPM team, assign work, monitor commitments, and ensure timely completion of application support, close-cycle, enhancement, and project activities.
• Supervise and develop EPM team members through coaching, performance feedback, training, and adherence to established team expectations.
• Partner with Finance & Accounting stakeholders to support external reporting, management reporting, budgeting and planning, line of business reporting, and allocations reporting.
• Maintain a working understanding of EPM application design, integrations, metadata, accounting structures, and end-to-end data flows.
• Oversee execution of established metadata, hierarchy, data-governance, security, and control processes within assigned EPM applications.
• Ensure required SDLC documentation is completed and maintained to company standards for assigned changes, enhancements, and projects including, but not limited to, creating user requirements, system impact assessments, test plans, test scripts, training plans, communications plans, end user guides, standard operating procedures (SOPs), RAID logs, status reports, data migration plans, etc.
• Evaluate operational issues, coordinate root-cause analysis, and implement or recommend solutions consistent with established architecture, policies, and control requirements.
• Coordinate with Accounting, Finance, Project Management, IT, and other Financial Systems teams in the initiation and planning phases of new projects by gathering project data and requirements and providing input on project activities and timing.
• Help identify and resolve project-related risks and issues.
• Escalate material business, control, resource, or architectural concerns to leadership.
• Participate in the evaluation of the project by giving input for post-project evaluations and lessons learned.
• Recommend improvements to EPM processes, procedures, controls, and service delivery based on operational experience and stakeholder needs.

Education & Experience Qualifications

Minimum 6 years of relevant EPM, accounting, or finance technology experience, including demonstrated ability to supervise, coach, and prioritize the work of a systems support team or project workstream. Bachelor’s or 4-year degree in Management & Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting, or Finance. Experience supporting financial systems in a multi-entity, multi-brand, or comparably complex business environment preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities

• Experience delivering effective finance systems solutions, including process, technology, and organizational considerations.
• Capacity to translate a technical/system challenge into a business conversation that leads to an actionable solution.
• Ability to understand organizational complexities, manage conflict, and influence changes.
• Strong organizational, problem solving, and analytical skills, including proficiency in finance analysis.
• Ability to manage multiple operational priorities and lead assigned project workstreams involving financial and accounting processes.
• Practical, adaptable problem-solver who can balance operational priorities, stakeholder needs, controls, and delivery commitments.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic work environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with excellent presentation skills and the ability to adapt to differing audiences.
• Understanding of GAAP accounting and its application to business activities.
• Working knowledge of financial and accounting processes relevant to EPM, including close, planning, forecasting, allocations, reconciliations, and management reporting.

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,300 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide. We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences. Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,400 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants across 55 global markets. In an industry facing increasing disruption, our leaders saw an opportunity to build a restaurant company unlike any other – one that brings together differentiated yet complementary brands and aims to make them stronger than they would be on their own. Found inherently in the purposes of our family of brands, we identified a common thread between our restaurants – the capacity to inspire. From guest experience to career development to community well-being, Inspire plays a role in the lives of millions of people every day. Our brands are diverse, distinctive, and fan favorites. In a sense, you could say we seek those who provide something different than the norm.

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,300 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide. We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences. Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,400 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants across 55 global markets. In an industry facing increasing disruption, our leaders saw an opportunity to build a restaurant company unlike any other – one that brings together differentiated yet complementary brands and aims to make them stronger than they would be on their own. Found inherently in the purposes of our family of brands, we identified a common thread between our restaurants – the capacity to inspire. From guest experience to career development to community well-being, Inspire plays a role in the lives of millions of people every day. Our brands are diverse, distinctive, and fan favorites. In a sense, you could say we seek those who provide something different than the norm.