This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Min Experience: 8 years
Location: Bengaluru, Bangalore
JobType: full-time
Requirements
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Hyperion EPM Administrator to join our finance technology team. The ideal candidate will have in-depth expertise in Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools and a solid understanding of finance and financial processes. This role is critical in supporting the organization’s planning, forecasting, budgeting, and financial consolidation systems. If you have a strong technical background and are passionate about enabling data-driven financial decision-making, this opportunity is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Hyperion EPM Administration:
- Maintain and administer the Oracle Hyperion suite including Hyperion Planning, Essbase, Financial Data Quality Management (FDMEE), and HFM.
- Manage the daily operations and ensure availability and performance of EPM systems.
- Perform configuration, patching, upgrades, and performance tuning of Hyperion applications.
- Coordinate with infrastructure and database teams to maintain system stability and optimal performance.
- Implement and manage security controls within the EPM environment, including user provisioning and role assignments.
2. Financial Systems Support:
- Collaborate closely with the Finance and FP&A teams to gather requirements and implement financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting solutions.
- Assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes by ensuring data integrity and timely system availability.
- Provide production support during financial planning cycles and help troubleshoot data and performance issues.
- Automate and optimize integrations between EPM tools and other source systems such as ERP or BI tools.
3. Development and Enhancements:
- Design and develop business rules, calculation scripts, and data load rules.
- Build and maintain reports and dashboards to support financial planning and analysis.
- Participate in EPM roadmap discussions, contribute to architectural decisions, and evaluate new technologies or tools to enhance financial systems.
- Lead the testing, documentation, and deployment of enhancements and new functionality within Hyperion systems.
4. Governance and Documentation:
- Ensure compliance with financial and IT controls, including SOX requirements if applicable.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, processes, and configurations.
- Develop and deliver training sessions and user guides for financial users and system stakeholders.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience working with Hyperion EPM applications.
- Strong understanding of financial processes including budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation.
- Experience with Essbase, Planning, HFM, FDMEE, and integration tools like ODI or Data Management.
- Solid knowledge of scripting languages used in EPM (e.g., MaxL, SQL, Calc Scripts).
- Familiarity with ERP systems such as Oracle EBS or SAP is a plus.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.