Oracle EPM Lead Consultant (FCCS) in Manchester

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high‑profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in‑demand skills development, and long‑term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities:

As a Senior Consultant working as an integral part of a project team, you will contribute to all phases of the consulting lifecycle. You will play a customer-facing role and be involved in Requirement Analysis, Business Process Documentation & Solution Design. You will work with and support your peers to develop, configure and deploy the solution, and ensure project processes and deliverables in your area are met. In addition to project related activities, you will also contribute to proposal development, demonstrating the application to potential customers and play an important role in building our Oracle Cloud capabilities and offerings.

As an experienced consultant you will be a self-starter and have strong functional skills in the implementation of Oracle EPM Cloud, backed up by proven hands‑on experience, ideally across different industries. You will have the ability to work under pressure and must be able to communicate effectively with customer stakeholders. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of our premier consulting firm working on the cutting edge of Cloud Implementations.

Required education: None

Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Up to 10 Years of functional experience delivering Oracle EPM Cloud Applications.
• Multiple full Oracle Cloud Implementations cycles.
• Demonstrated experience in Solution Design, Requirements Analysis, Functional Workshops Design, Configuration Documentation, Troubleshooting and Integration Architecture.
• Experience working with technical teams for interface design, development and testing.
• Ability to multi-task and to work independently.
• Strong client-facing, communication and client management skills.
• A good understanding of Application Implementation methodologies.
• Demonstrable functional skills in at least two of: Planning and Budgeting Cloud (Financial Planning, Workforce Planning, Capex, and Projects), Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience working with technical teams for interface design, development and testing.
• Good domain knowledge of: Enterprise Data Management (EDMCS), Account Reconciliation (ARCS).
• Oracle Cloud Implementation Certification(s).
• Experience in Oracle Cloud Implementations and integrating them with other on‑premise or cloud applications.
• A good understanding of the broader Oracle Cloud functional areas e.g. Finance, HCM and Payroll, SCM, CX, Logistics.
• Good knowledge of the reporting and analytical tools available as part of Oracle Cloud.
• Some experience in pre‑sales activities such as contributing to proposals, conducting Proof of Concepts & Configuring Sandbox environments for functional demonstrations.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, including the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment. IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.