EPM Developer and Administrator Financial Systems

Posting Title

EPM Developer and Administrator Financial Systems

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Location

Remote

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NLR

Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NLR stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.

At NLR, you'll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.

Job Description

 National Laboratory of the Rockies’ (NLR) Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) is seeking a full-time Financial Systems Professional. This role reports within the Business Systems group and supports Financial Planning & Analysis. The role focuses on direct support and maintenance of our financial planning system Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, developing enhancements, and service tickets, daily support, month end and year end close processes while also contributing to data governance, troubleshooting issues, and assisting with optimizing system structure for improved analytics and performance across the enterprise. As well as assisting and developing training materials for stakeholders.

The analyst will collaborate with NLR Information Technology Services (ITS) data team for data governance, delivery of OCFO data, and troubleshooting EPM system errors.

Key Responsibilities

• Administrator of EPM Systems.  Take initiative to work collaboratively. Establishes positive working relationships across organizations.
• Manage the EPM system for OCFO to include security permissions, respond to user requests, systems updates, troubleshooting as needed.
• Ensure nightly, month-end, and yearly processes run smoothly, troubleshoot and update system as necessary to maintain operations as intended.
• Responsible for collaboratively working with ITS on software development activities including authoring of requirements, solution specifications, test plans; development and testing of custom software solutions.
• Provide technical input and recommendations on specific software solutions.
• Support business units by researching issues and questions to determine root cause, identify course of action and bring issue/question to resolution.
• Adhere to the software development process including utilizing iterative design approaches and concepts, creating, and filing appropriate documentation as prescribed by the process. Utilize the standardized support tools established for IT.
• Manage your time and daily activities to satisfy work assignments, performance, and deliverables. Communicate status of work assignments.
• Implement best practices for EPM administration
• Adherence to Cyber Security guidelines for the proper security management and administration of EPM
• Manage multiple purpose-driven EPM “pods” regularly
• Coordinate and support regression testing of EPM monthly patching cadence
• Coordinate and support major updates of EPM
• Troubleshoot any process and integration issues between EPM and any other systems
• Implement and follow proper approval workflows for user management
• Rigorously manage EPM Identity Domain administrative accounts and access

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Basic Qualifications

Professional Level V -
Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 14 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 12 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.

Professional Level IV-
Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.

Eligibility requirements: This position will require access to Controlled Unclassified Information which may include restricted dissemination requirements based on citizenship. As a result, applicants may be excluded from consideration based on citizenship in accordance with DOE O 471.7, Controlled Unclassified Information. https://www.directives.doe.gov/news/new-doe-o-471-7-controlled-unclassified-information

* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

Additional Required Qualifications

• High level of experience in technical, administrative, functional, and development aspects Oracle EPM Cloud
• Groovy scripting experience and understanding
• Knowledge of , SmartView, , and EPM Automate
• Expertise in administering integrations between on-premises and Cloud EPM by leveraging available tools including EPM Automate
• Ability to build positive working relationships across the organization, service oriented
• Experience writing technical specifications for work to be performed by other developers
• 5+ years of recent and relevant experience as an EPM technical, administrative, functional and development for on-premise (Hyperion) and Cloud EPM
• Cloud EPM experience is essential
• Demonstrated experience in leading full scope solutions delivery through analysis, design and development of integrations, extensions, user interfaces, reports and workflows within EPM
• High level of experience in technical, administrative, functional, and development aspects Oracle EPM Cloud
• Groovy scripting experience and understanding

• Knowledge of , SmartView, , and EPM Automate
• Expertise in administering integrations between on-premises and Cloud EPM by leveraging available tools including EPM Automate
• Ability to build positive working relationships across the organization, service oriented
• Experience writing technical specifications for work to be performed by other developers
• Understanding of full cycle SDLC or Agile methodologies, with a focus on quality, development standards, and change control
• The candidate must have the ability to design and implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and perform at a high-level to meet the service levels associated with mission-critical EPM application
• Excellent impact-analysis skills and discipline
• Carefully analyzes the existing code base as part of each design effort, to avoid redundancy and inconsistency and maximize code reuse.
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and an ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences.
• Clear understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and respective experience with its application in design and development phases
• Excellent understanding of coding methods and best practices. The SDE code must be worthy of being held up as an example for others to follow, in terms of readability, consistency, adherence to standards, and performance.
• Familiarity with code management software including Git and familiarity of job scheduling in Github runner
• 2 years of proven work experience with a wide base of knowledge of data management principles, methodologies, and frameworks including master data management, data security, data dictionaries, metadata management, data governance, and data quality.
• Proficiency in business process mapping, solution design, and data analysis
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience with reporting tools for analyzing datasets (Excel) and database languages (SQL)
• Excellent organization, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work well in a cross-organizational team environment
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter that gets excited about proactively solving problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Federal or National Laboratory experience a plus

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Job Application Submission Window

The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

Job Profile: Professional V / Annual Salary Range: $120,400 - $216,700

Job Profile: Professional IV / Annual Salary Range: $100,400 - $180,700

NLR takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

Benefits Summary

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short*- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement*. NLR employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

* Based on eligibility rules

Badging Requirement

NLR is subject to Department of Energy (DOE) access restrictions. All employees must also be able to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card as required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which includes a favorable background investigation.

Drug Free Workplace

NLR is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.

If you are offered employment at NLR, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NLR you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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