Vice President, Financial Consolidation Reporting Applications Lead
On-siteWilmington, Delaware, United States
Job Summary
Own and manage systems and applications supporting the financial consolidation process, ensuring platform availability, data integrity, and timely execution across close, forecast, and planning cycles. Act as the primary liaison between Finance teams, application support, and technology peers to align priorities and drive delivery outcomes. Oversee day-to-day application operations including data loads, hierarchy management, and reporting readiness while monitoring workflows to proactively identify risks. Lead production incident triage and escalation for consolidation failures, coordinating cross-functional resolution and root-cause remediation during critical close periods. Produce process documentation, operational runbooks, and stakeholder communications while reporting on consolidation health and improvement metrics. Demonstrate flexibility to work extended hours during month-end and quarter-end close windows.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related field
- 5 years of experience in the job offered or as an Essbase Administrator, OLAP Technical Lead, Business Intelligence Lead, Senior Application Analyst, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, or related occupation
- Hands-on experience owning and supporting Oracle Essbase in a production environment, including operational monitoring and issue resolution
- Demonstrated experience supporting financial consolidation, forecast, and planning cycles from a systems and applications perspective
- Working knowledge of multidimensional data concepts (for example, cubes, hierarchies, dimensions) and how they impact consolidation and reporting outputs
- Experience performing data validation and reconciliation support to ensure accuracy and completeness of consolidated results
- Proven incident management skills, including triage, escalation, stakeholder updates, and driving root-cause remediation under time constraints
- Strong partnership and communication skills, with the ability to align Finance stakeholders and technology teams on timelines and readiness
- Experience creating and maintaining runbooks, operational procedures, and control-oriented documentation
- Proficiency using Jira to manage work, including writing clear epics and user stories with acceptance criteria
- Demonstrated flexibility to work extended hours during month-end and quarter-end close periods, including handling escalations during critical processing windows
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with other online analytical processing technologies such as Cognos or Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
- Familiarity with business intelligence and analytics platforms (for example, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Atoti) and how they consume consolidated finance data
- Experience supporting Finance teams within a large financial institution, including management reporting expectations and close-cycle execution rhythms
- Understanding of data lake and lakehouse concepts and tools (for example, Databricks, Snowflake) as they relate to finance data pipelines
- Familiarity with automation and integration tooling (scheduling frameworks, scripting, extract-transform-load or extract-load-transform platforms) to reduce manual intervention
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