Financial Systems Analyst - Cognos

Role: Senior Financial Systems Analyst - Cognos Planning Analyst

Work Location: Bangalore

Travel: Occasionally as required

Exp: 3 Yrs to 10 Yrs

Job Specification:

Description:

- Maintains budgeting and forecasting models contained in the Cognos Planning financial application.

- Supports the ongoing development and deployment of new planning and forecasting models in the Cognos Planning financial application.

- Supports the daily administration of the Cognos Planning financial application.

Responsibilities:

- Supports the ongoing design, development, deployment and maintenance of new financial models and processes in the Cognos Planning application

- Completes financial model changes and enhancements in support of evolving business requirements.

- Maintains metadata and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity

- Resolves software related problems

- Coordinates with IT System Administrators to evaluate and install new software releases and system upgrades

- Supports the preparation and consolidation of the annual P&L budgets

- Supports the preparation and consolidation of the monthly financial forecast

- Supports the analysis of financial data using various structured and ad hoc analysis and reporting tools

Person specification skills

- The successful candidate will be newly qualified (CIMA, ACCA or similar) or be part qualified. The person should have strong systems skills, particularly Excel, be able to demonstrate an ability manipulate and summarise data, developing controls and validation to ensure complete accuracy. Extensive experience with Cognos Analyst and Contributor would be advantageous. Some Cognos 8 Business Intelligence experience would be useful.

The candidate will need to be able to take user requirements and translate these into working models, delivered under time constraints. Strong communication skills, the ability to work under time pressure and a fine attention to detail are prime requisites.

Interested candidates, please send me your updated resume to raj.pandit@misys.com