Description
Role: Hyperion ConsultantDuration: 6 months daily rate contract
Rate: DOE
Location: Dublin
X-Factor: Greenfield with lots of responsibility and decision-making
The Hyperion Administrator role serves as the supplemental support person and subject matter expert for Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Essbase Systems Analyst. Responsibilities include development, maintenance, governance, testing, troubleshooting, and process administration functions required to support the enterprise wide reporting environment on a daily basis.
Serves as the primary point of contact for the Hyperion Financial Report Studio and Hyperion SmartView Reporting applications; supports the FP&A team running the annual budget, monthly forecast, and long-range forecast processes in Hyperion Planning and Essbase; runs interfaces using FDMEE (Finance Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition) from Oracle EBS and various other external data systems.
Initially the Hyperion Administrator will be a key team member on an enterprise wide Hyperion implementation of the following Hyperion functionality: Hyperion Suite version (Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning, Essbase, Finance Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition, DRM/DRG). The Hyperion Administrator will be involved in all the aspects of this implementation including integrations to Oracle ERP and other various data sources.
Job Duties:
- Backup the Financial reporting team running the monthly close (cross-training to be provided) reporting and development
- Troubleshoot Essbase/SmartView issues and coordinate issue resolution with development and, infrastructure using documented procedures
- Ensure business-as-usual operation of the production environment on a daily basis, escalating issues to management and service desk when necessary
- Create and run MaxL scripts as needed to move data within the Essbase Environment
- Hyperion user administration
- Expert in Hyperion application administration, including HFM, FDMEE, Hyperion Planning, DRM/DRG
- Provide system development and improvements to streamline, standardize and automate reporting processes; take ownership of maintaining and managing applications and processes once set in place
- Assists in providing Hyperion support and impromptu training for Hyperion users
Desired Skills and Experience
- Bachelors' degree required, preferable in accounting, IT or related field
- Must have 3+ years' experience with Hyperion Financial Management
- Must have 2+ years' experience working with ERP systems, preferably Oracle EBS
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including data reconciliations required
- Experience understanding, designing and managing master data hierarchies and members required
- Experience implementing and supporting each of the following areas preferred: Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDMEE), Hyperion Data Relationship Management (DRM), Hyperion Financial Reporting, Hyperion Smart View
Other Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Solid leadership, training, and teamwork capabilities
- Able to demonstrate analytical and trouble-shooting skills
- Travel: <10% to Ireland and the UK.