Senior Oracle Engineer

Business Unit:

Information Technology

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Overview

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Scope:

As a Senior Oracle Software Engineer, you play a critical role in designing, owning, and operating Houlihan Lokey’s core financial systems across Oracle Fusion Financials and Oracle EPM. You serve as the primary design authority for GL‑centric financial processing, including payroll allocations, intercompany accounting, and management and statutory reporting.

You act as a trusted partner to Finance, Accounting, and IT stakeholders, combining deep Oracle configuration expertise with hands‑on troubleshooting, project leadership, and disciplined documentation. Your work bridges transactional finance in Oracle Fusion with analytical and allocation‑driven finance in Oracle EPM, ensuring accurate data flow, audit readiness, and scalable financial insights that support the firm’s global operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Oracle Fusion Financials – Design Authority & Ownership

• Lead functional and technical ownership of Oracle Fusion Financials with primary focus on General Ledger, supporting AP, AR, FA, CM, Expenses, and related modules.

• Act as the design authority for accounting configurations, chart of accounts structures, hierarchies, calendars, and governance standards.

• Translate complex Finance and Accounting requirements into robust Oracle configurations that balance automation, control, scalability, and audit compliance.

• Ensure all system setups meet SOX, ICFR, and internal audit requirements, including complete documentation, approvals, and traceability.

• Own end-to-end configuration standards, troubleshooting approaches, and system best practices.

Oracle EPM – Payroll, Allocations & Reporting

• Own payroll-related allocations and reporting within Oracle EPM, ensuring accurate cost distribution across legal entities, cost centers, and business dimensions.

• Support and document integrations from Workday Payroll to Oracle GL, including payslip and payroll cost postings.

• Design, maintain, and enhance allocation models used for:

  • Management reporting

  • Statutory reporting

  • Internal performance and profitability analysis

• Manage EPM cubes, metadata, hierarchies, dimensions, and data flows, ensuring alignment with Oracle GL structures and accounting rules.

• Enforce strict reconciliation and data integrity controls between Oracle Fusion GL and EPM outputs.

Intercompany & Multi-Entity Enablement

• Configure and support intercompany rules, balancing, eliminations, and reporting structures.

• Ensure intercompany activity is accurately reflected across transactional systems and EPM reporting layers.

• Partner with Accounting to support complex close, consolidation, and reconciliation processes.

Expense & Management Reporting

• Support EPM-driven expense reporting and analysis, enabling Finance leadership with timely, accurate, and actionable insights.

• Ensure expense data flows cleanly from source systems → GL → EPM, with proper validations and controls.

Integrations & Cross-Platform Collaboration

• Lead and support integrations between Oracle Financials and platforms such as Workday, Concur, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and other upstream/downstream systems.

• Partner with technical and integration teams to ensure data consistency, monitoring, reconciliation, and error handling across interfaces.

• Own documentation, testing, and validation for any system changes that push or pull data into Oracle GL or AR.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex functional and technical issues across Oracle Fusion and EPM environments.

• Lead Oracle quarterly update readiness:

  • Analyze release notes

  • Assess business and system impact

  • Coordinate tes