BI Cognos Developer at Digital Outsource Services (Pty) Ltd

Job description

Purpose:

Reporting to the Team Lead, the successful candidate will as a member of the Software Development team develop, build and deploy to the existing Cognos TM1 environment.

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Creating, enhancing and maintaining Framework Manager models to support business requirements
• Prepare all designs and code for various Cognos reporting objects and ensure compliance to all best business practices in industry
• Documenting business requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications
• Building TM1 cubes, dimensions and rules and setting up ETL processes
• Working with business users to design and develop Cognos reports
• Prepare all reports for management and output of all system documentation
• Investigate and resolve all data issues and analyze all business requirements and perform interview with all stakeholders
• Direct support of FPM (Financial Performance Management) applications post go-live including debugging, report authoring and model maintenance
• Training of both Technical and business users in the system

Non-Negotiable Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS or Finance and Accounting with a technology concentration
• Working knowledge of MS SQL
• Excellent understanding and product use in MS Excel.

Advantageous Requirements:

• Proven experience with FPM (Financial Performance Management) technologies.
• 1-2 years utilizing FPM (Financial Performance Management) tools (e.g. TM1, Hyperion. Planning, Essbase)

Personal Competencies:

• Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of colleagues
• Stable, adaptable individual who is able to handle stress
• Must be flexible in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to multi task on a continuous basis
• Team player
• Solution and results orientated
• Be prepared to work in a 24/7 environment