Financial Planning Analytics Consultant (255742)
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"All candidates must be directly contracted by ASK Consulting on their payroll and cannot be subcontracted. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this moment".
Job Title: Financial Planning Analytics Consultant
Location: 100% Remote (Need candidates from EST only)
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Pay range: $61/Hr on W2
Job Description:
Role and responsibilities:
- Provide support to users of finance planning tool (IBM planning analytics) throughout the forecast cycle; including administration of the application, setting up new users, support for reports created via planning analytics for excel, resolution of ad-hoc queries, maintenance of documentation and delivery of end user training.
- Work with FP&A and technical teams to identify and implement systems improvements within IBM planning analytics.
- Work with development team to ensure planning seed data is updated within the tool (actual transactions, headcount information, depreciation forecasts) and dimensions & security update on a timely basis through the planning and reporting cycle.
- Project manage and deliver system upgrades and improvements based on change requests, provide testing of code updates and roadmap changes as required.
- Identify and implement best practices to improve operational efficiency.
- Understand data flows and make them more dependable/repeatable, strengthening links to other enterprise tools.
Skills & experience:
- Strong understanding of finance principals, with previous experience working on budgeting and forecasting process and interacting with finance analysts
- 7+ years IBM planning analytics development experience (to v2.0 or higher) with knowledge of:
- Server installation & system configuration
- Cube and application design
- Planning analytics TI + chores
- A minimum of 5 years IBM Planning Analytics experience is needed.
- Feeders
- Planning analytics security, including element security
- Planning analytics architect
- MDX
- Experience of uing planning analytics rest API (preferably via cube Wise s canvas product)
- Experience in prosject management of key financial initiatives within planning analytics
Additional skills (good to have)
- Exposure to master data management solutions
- Experience with Cognos bi integration
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