Application Manager - Oracle Hyperion Administrator

Job description

• Apply technical knowledge (e.g. SAP, Java, .NET) to solve application issues with moderate risk/complexity.
• Analyze business application and data processing problems/limitations.
• Working knowledge of Oracle EPM Cloud applications (ARCS) or strong understanding of Hyperion Account Reconciliations.
• Work with the client's executive and financial leadership teams to gather/analyze business requirements.
• Identify business solutions necessary to expand/improve existing systems.
• Utilize knowledge of financial reporting, forecasting, and consolidations process to assist with implementation of customized business applications.
• Identify and document designs in a business intelligence environment.
• Work as part of a team to implement Hyperion business applications to assist with budgeting, financial reporting, forecasting.
• Develop and modify rules to translate data into business reports. Modify reports to provide efficient technical solutions for end users.
• Exercise independent judgment within defined practices and procedures to determine appropriate action.
• Contribute to projects from own responsibility area.
• Resolve most technical incidents independently within technical area.
• Work with team members to resolve more complex or cross-technology incidents.
• Document known errors and workarounds.
• Identify potential escalations and alert management proactively.
• Manage basic escalations with customer.
• Independently review, implement, and verify changes/solutions of moderate complexity and risk to meet customer needs within area(s) of technical responsibility.
• Understand and escalate scope changes per change control process.
• Provide continual improvement recommendations/direction setting and advice within work team.
• Balance internal needs against customer requirements and/or internal businesses/end user's needs within defined parameters.
• Work as part of a team, which may be virtual, global, and/or multi-functional.
• Act as an informed team member providing analysis of information and limited project direction input.
• Demonstrate basic understanding of business contract to support and meet contractual metrics and obligations in area of responsibility.
• Analyze service performance data involving response time, throughput, and utilization across all customers for standard services to detect trends and to generate forecasts of capacity growth.
• Provide solutions to prevent problems from occurring in area of responsibility proactively.
• Conduct analysis of data and trends to define changes to increase application reliability, reduce maintenance costs, etc.

Personal skills

• Excellent team player.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent command of English.

Technical skills

• Customer service oriented with strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and ability to convey technical information in an understandable manner.
• Experience with both ASO and BSO Essbase cubes, preferred knowledge of MDX.
• Write complex business rules, multi-step allocations.
• Experience in developing the different Hyperion Planning artifacts (dimensions, webforms, menus, reports, task lists, workflow).
• Must have a bachelor's degree in computer science, IT or related field.
• Apply knowledge in Hyperion Planning and Essbase to deliver/develop solutions.
• Work with Hyperion Planning versions starting from 9.3.1 to 11.1.2.
• Solid functional design experience - designed the budgeting system, reports such as P&L, balance sheet and cash flow and enabled the funds management capability in the budget.
• Solid technical design experience - designed the integration with the ERP (Oracle EBS) to pull the dimensions and trial balance data to Hyperion and budget write back.
• Proven communication skills are a must.

Education

MS / BS degree in computer science, engineering.