Role Focus & Challenge

• Having vast experience on commercial/business planning is a must have to be able to quickly understand the planning system in use and/or other systems which interact with it (experience in as a business/planning analyst role).

• While Finance is under transformation in the company (on project mode) the candidate will require to proactively support key milestones in different work streams: testing, training and Hypercare.
• Ideally the job holder will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on one or more of the Financial systems including Hyperion Planning.  
• Work as a support analyst for the Reporting financial systems, including assessing the impact, developing user requirements for changes, and configuring reporting systems to deliver these changes or working with our IT GTC team to ensure the changes are delivered to the highest quality.
• Work as a Planning IT Support Analyst for the Hyperion financial systems, planning and actual, including assessing the impact, developing user requirements for changes, and configuring the group planning systems to deliver these changes or working with our IT GTC team to ensure the changes are delivered to the highest quality.
• During the critical days of the statutory month/quarter-end the person will support the Global users and liaise with business customers. Provide 1st line of support.
• Helpdesk support for the different SET areas (Commercial, Science, Operations, etc) and monitoring of Financial Planning & Reporting mailbox (FPRS Financial Planning & Reporting Systems).
• Contribute as an expert to various projects taking different roles.  
• To understand, capture and deliver business requirements from the wider finance community across a variety of teams. 
• Problem solving inaccuracies in the data model that prohibit the timely update of the financial information either via consultancy to production support teams
• To work within agreed development and support standards and processes, supporting the business capability and technology roadmaps set by SEUIT. Ensuring Service Management principles are followed for the management of the corporate information model (e.g. ITIL standards for the recording of incidents, problems, requests and changes).
• Monitor system activity and usage tracking to deliver recommendations to increase performance of data entry forms and reports (e.g. speed of response) or additional capability or information to increase user adoption. Perform Deployments, aggregations, integrations etc. in line with the business process.
• Provide Business Support to the Business Planning team, and the Hyperion end user community.
• Assist in developing training content, and provide end user Hyperion & Smart view training to the end User community
• Provide timely communications on behalf of the Hyperion business support team to the Hyperion user community and stakeholders regarding outages, data loads etc.
• Communication of release changes and service status
• Testing including coordination of UAT and business sign off

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