I design, build and repair the Oracle Cloud EPM applications that listed and regulated groups close their books on. Having a finance background, I read the group structure, the GAAP differences and the disclosure requirements first, and let those decide what the system has to do — rules, ownership, integrations. So the numbers land on time and hold up in the audit.
FCCS applications that survive reality: multi-currency, multi-GAAP, equity pickup and ownership that changes mid-year, with intercompany and movement logic your auditor can follow.
Planning, forecasting and cash models your own team can maintain — driver-based where that helps, including Predictive Cash Forecasting, and built on the same data the close runs on.
Management, statutory and tax reports built inside the applications themselves — FCCS, Planning and TRCS — so the board pack, the annual accounts and the tax position all draw on one set of numbers.
My background is in finance, not in IT. I know what a consolidation has to prove before I know what the application has to compute, and that is what most EPM problems turn out to be about: the accounting question underneath the technical symptom.
I work as an independent consultant, usually alongside a group controller or an internal EPM team. Sometimes that means a build from scratch. More often it means an application that was implemented years ago and no longer matches the group it has to report on.
Engagements run from a two-day diagnosis of a close that keeps slipping, to leading a full consolidation redesign. I stay hands-on in the application — rules, ownership, integrations — rather than writing recommendations for someone else to build.
Thirty minutes, no charge. Tell me where the close hurts and I will tell you whether I am the right person for it.