Beschreibung
My client is currently looking for a Cognos TM1 consultant to work in a long-term project in Switzerland.Start: 12.01.2015
Duration: 12 Mont + Extention
Location: Zürich
Language: English
Responsibilities:
• Work with business customers and IT Project Managers and Business Systems Analysts
to analyze information needs and functional requirements and design TM1 solutions
to meet business needs. Clarify requirements as needed to support sound technical
development principles.
• Work with business system analysts to ensure high level designs including architecture
requirements are accurately documented and mapped to approved requirements.
Communicate technical concepts back to business to verify requirements through
presentations, excel examples and other prototypes.
• Understand and document data calculation and data validation requirements
• Collaborate with external development partners to incorporate TM1 development best
practices into application design and development. Perform technical development
activities especially around high technical complexity
• Prepare and present architecture, design and code reviews to ensure technical artifacts
meet Finance IT and the clients standards.
• Develop plans and conduct tests to ensure application performance meets business
requirements
• Work with TM1 architects to ensure applications will fit within development, test and
production infrastructure footprint and meet best practices and standards for common
areas including security, backup, integrations and use of Master Data Management
• Participate in business requirements reviews for enhancements and provide feedback
to ensure requirements can be incorporated as best as possible into existing application
design
• Design and develop application enhancements and supervise contract resources and
review code
• Track and prepare the reporting of testing activities (e.g. testing results, test case
coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status) and prepare/update
UAT testing metrics
Skills:
• 5 or more years related experience in software development initiatives or projects
with internal finance planning, actuals and forecasting components. Hands-on work
developing, deploying and supporting TM1 applications for a global user base.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally
with a diverse group of business and technology managers and subject matter experts
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking required, including demonstrated ability
to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational
requirements
• 3-5 years design and development of Cognos TM1 applications, experience with version
10.1 required, experience with version 10.2 highly desired. i.e. the candidate should be
proficient in coding TM1 Rules, Turbo Integrator (ETL), TM1 Web, and MDX as well as
all TM1 administration functions and best practices.
• Experienced with TM1 server maintenance, environment setup, cube design, and
application design
• Knowledge of planning, budgeting, and forecasting functions and business processes
• Relational database development and design knowledge - very strong DB2, SQL skills
• Cognos TM1 Developer and User Certifications preferred
Do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Kind regards from Germany,
Chris