Rob Sheppard

About Rob Sheppard

Rob has over 25 years of consulting and industry experience across a diverse set of clients in both private and public sector (State and Local Government, Higher Education), leading several budget and financial transformation programs. Lead projects involving assessment, discovery, implementation, and operation. Performed variety of leadership and technical roles, including project manager, team lead, functional lead, budget lead, and technical lead. Rob is a key partner to finance and financial planning and analysis departments and to the office of the CFO.Rob has led multiple large and diverse project teams across multiple time zones. He uses open communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain client relationships, inform executive stakeholder groups, and help clients through difficult decisions. His strong leadership skills allow him to manage complex and dynamic projects using agile methodologies and keep the client and team focused on efficiently producing project deliverables and meeting project deadlines.Areas of expertise include project management, finance transformation, budgeting, forecasting, trial balances, long-range planning, financial management reporting, general ledger structures, financial close processes, data integration, and business analytics. Focus areas are business process re-design and improvement, integrated business and technology transformation, implementation, modernization, cost reduction and profitability analytics, and solution adoption. Helps clients work through complex programs aligned to long-term strategies.

Experience

1. Epm Solution Architect

   Oracle

   Dec 2025 — Present · Mount Laurel, NJ, US

Education

• Rutgers University - Camden

  MBA, Finance

  1996 — 1999

• Rowan University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Accounting

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Budgeting
• Business Process Improvement
• Leadership
• Essbase
• Crm
• Financial Modeling
• Sdlc
• Hyperion
• Business Intelligence
• Management
• Project Management
• Forecasting
• Budgets
• Process Improvement
• Analysis
• Consulting
• Financial Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Financial Reporting