Manager - Hyperion Financial Planning - IT Advisory Services

Job Purpose:

- Manager in the IT Advisory Services team to lead various business performance management implementation projects for our customers across the globe.

Technical Skills Requirements:

- Support the initial design and implementation of Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning & Essbase solutions.

- Understand and collect the requirements related to budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis and reporting.

- Assist with the technical design and development of the tools.

- Provide initial training to the team on the use of the Hyperion Planning/ Essbase solutions as well as appropriate user and technical documentation support.

- Lead future phases and implementations of Hyperion Planning | Essbase including but not limited to capital planning, roll-out of Hyperion Planning to the organization as well as future process improvements and reporting within Finance:

- Develop project plans and provide project management leadership.

- Lead the teams architecting financial model(s) leveraging Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning & Essbase

- Provide ongoing support, guidance and mentoring with respect to the Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning & Essbase solutions to the Financial Planning team as well as support to the organization following the roll-out of the solution.

- Perform technical and functional review of the solutions recommending performance optimization measures.

- General understanding of corporate finance and technical business solutions

- General understanding of key IT / Business systems, ERP (Sales/HR/Production), Financials (GL/AR/AP),, Reporting & Analytics, Data Warehousing, CRM, etc.

- Adapt to new environments and changing requirements in an exciting and fast paced consulting world. Candidates must exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills. They should be able to demonstrate experience with structured project management and/or the software package implementation process.

- Must be committed to their client's success and willing to do what it takes to help ensure that success. They actively seek knowledge and experience and share their experience with others.

Mandatory Skills:

- Excellent leadership skills

- Excellent client facing skills

- Excellent project management skills

- In-depth knowledge and expertise of Hyperion Planning and Essbase with a minimum of 5+ years experience as a Hyperion EPM consultant leading Planning | Essbase solution implementations.

- Experience in technical design of the Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning & Essbase solutions leading design sessions, preparing design document, project plan, supporting documentation, building planning applications, cubes, training and delivery of full the EPM solution.

- Advanced understanding of key business systems and processes - ERP, General Ledger, Data Warehousing, Reporting & Analytics, etc.

- Ability to drive all phases of the project life cycle from design to product launch.

- Experience leading small to medium sized implementation teams on an engagement, ability to manage multiple projects at a given point in time and work in a fast-paced environment.

- Financial Planning Package Implementation

- Leading platform knowledge such as: Hyperion Planning

- Financial Analysis and Reporting, Leading platform knowledge such as: Essbase, Crystal reports

- Accounting transformation using Oracle Financials Accounting hub (OFAH) Design and Configuration of Integration tools like Oracle Data Integration (ODI), FDQM/FDM,

- Should have understanding and experience of software development best practices.

Preferred Skills:

- At least 4 end to end implementation experience in products like Hyperion Essbase and planning/FDM/ODI etc.

- At least 1 project in the capacity of project lead

- Experience in Financial Services domain, preferably in performance management solutions.

- Prior Client facing experience.

Qualifications

- BE/BTech/MCA with MBA (Finance) or Chartered Accountants/ICWA's with an industry experience of 9-13 years.

Candidate should be involved in at least 4-5 end to end solution implementation