Oracle EPM Cloud Planning Functional Consultant

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Shape the future of finance transformation by designing scalable Oracle EPM Planning solutions and driving automation with a focus on AI and complex planning environments.

Oracle EPM Cloud Planning Functional Consultant

You must be eligible for CTC Clearance (UK residency required for the past 3 years)

Drive Smarter Planning. Transform Finance. Deliver Real Impact.

Version 1 — the UK & Ireland’s leading Oracle ERP & Cloud partner — is seeking an experienced Oracle EPM Cloud Planning Functional Consultant to help shape the next generation of finance transformation.

This is a role for someone who understands finance at its core, thrives in complex planning environments, and wants to work at the forefront of FP&A, Oracle EPM, and AI-enabled finance transformation.

Why This Role at Version 1?

Make Finance Better — Not Just Different

You’ll design and deliver driver-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting solutions that give finance teams clarity, confidence, and control.

Work as a Trusted Finance Partner

You’ll collaborate closely with FP&A teams, Finance Business Partners, and senior stakeholders, translating business challenges into elegant, scalable Oracle EPM Planning solutions.

Lead End-to-End Delivery

From requirements and process design through configuration, testing, go-live, and optimisation — you’ll play a hands-on, visible role across the full lifecycle.

Build the Future of FP&A

Version 1 is investing heavily in AI-driven finance transformation. You’ll help clients adopt smarter automation, improve forecasting accuracy, and unlock deeper insights from their data.

Work with a Market Leader

As an Oracle EMEA Innovation Partner of the Year, Version 1 delivers complex, enterprise-scale programmes — giving you exposure, challenge, and genuine career progression.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be:

  • Leading the functional design and implementation of Oracle EPM Planning solutions
  • Defining requirements, performing gap analysis, and designing robust planning models
  • Configuring forms, dashboards, workflows, approvals, and security
  • Providing functional leadership for integrations, business rules, mappings, and automations
  • Facilitating design reviews and validation workshops with finance stakeholders
  • Supporting testing cycles, training delivery, go-live readiness, and post-implementation support
  • Managing priorities, risks, and stakeholder expectations to ensure successful delivery

What We’re Looking For

You will have:

Finance-First EPM Expertise

  • A strong background in FP&A or a commercial finance role
  • Hands-on experience designing and improving planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes

Oracle EPM Planning Experience

  • Solid functional experience with Oracle Planning Cloud
  • Familiarity with Oracle EPM out-of-the-box planning frameworks is highly beneficial
  • Experience with other FP&A tools (e.g. Anaplan) is advantageous

Process-Led, Delivery-Driven

  • Proven ability to analyse, optimise, and redesign end-to-end finance processes
  • Experience delivering financial systems in either a consulting or client-side environment
  • Comfortable managing multiple workstreams in fast-moving programmes

Forward-Thinking & Collaborative

  • A genuine interest in applying AI and emerging technologies to finance transformation
  • Strong communication and workshop facilitation skills
  • Organised, proactive, and outcomes-focused

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to additional Oracle EPM Cloud modules such as FCCS, ARCS, PCMCS, EDMCS, Narrative Reporting, or Tax Reporting
  • Accountancy qualification or equivalent finance background

Why Version 1? 

  • Strong career progression & mentorship through our Strength in Balance and leadership programmes, including quarterly Pathways Career Development reviews
  • Significant training budget for certifications and further education. 
  • Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & Call-Out recognition platform celebrating achievement. 
  • Moments that matter & enhanced maternity/paternity leave policies to support your journey. 
  • Active ESG & CSR initiatives, allowing you to give back through fundraising, volunteering, and diversity, inclusion & belonging programmes. 

Benefits include: 

  • Quarterly performance-related profit share 
  • Hybrid / Remote working flexibility 
  • Pension, private healthcare, life assurance cover 
  • Certified Great Place to Work for 10+ years running 

Ashley Billington, Head of Talent Acquisition – Enterprise Applications (Oracle Cloud - ERP, HCM, EPM) 

+447840839370 

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We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers 

Please note: We have an internal recruitment team and do not accept agency candidates. If you want to join the team here at Version 1, get in touch with us directly! 

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • ESG & CSR initiatives: Active ESG & CSR initiatives, allowing you to give back through fundraising, volunteering, and diversity, inclusion & belonging programmes.

Version 1 has celebrated over 26 years in the IT industry and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver IT solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We’re also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1. We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023. As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Services Reliabilities Group (SRG) team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally.

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