Hyperion Financial Management Lead Consultant

Contract Duration: 08 Months

• Hyperion Financial Management Lead Consultant
• Remote role
• Must have 1-2 years of Hyperion (HFM) experience (Minimum) and hands-on experience with company divestitures (splitting companies, manipulating data).
• Combination of functional and technical knowledge needed
• Ability to lead and guide - not just execute tasks
• Understand data loading and applying business logic for divestiture processes
• Leadership not expected but must know what needs to be done and expected to guide the team.

Role

• Client is establishing a joint venture which will require enhancement of their Financial Management and Reporting system (Oracle EPM/Hyperion) to be able to manage the consolidation of the legal entities of this joint venture and produce required reporting. This will be an on-premises (i.e. not SaaS) based project in which the client will provide the required hardware, software and supporting infrastructure.

Goal: Create processes for splitting legal entities and loading data with business logic

The following tasks/skills need to be provided during this engagement:

• Leverage expert knowledge on HFM to create/modify rules and perform metadata changes.
• Perform technical functional validation of applications and objects.
• Update existing FDMEE custom scripts supporting functional changes.
• Support Production HFM applications prior and during go-live.
• Provide insights based on previous experiences on how to deliver the project scope and required development.
• Automate where possible the work on the business rules to help with the business functionality.
• Possess HFM functional expertise to update Webforms, Hyperion Financial Reporting tool.

Application Services

The following application tasks will be provided during this engagement as required:

• Document updating metadata using the .app file process in HFM
• Expertise in HFM Rules file for creating and updating logic.
• Create training curriculum for Admin and user training covering
• How to manage metadata using the .app or .xml file or provide new technology or methods on updating HFM Metadata
• If applicable, new features in SmartView excel add-in
• Provide Train the Trainer sessions based on curriculum

Testing Services

The following testing tasks will be provided during this engagement as required:

• Assist client as required with SIT (system Integration Testing).
• Support client with UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Disaster Recovery Services

The following business continuity related tasks will be provided during this engagement as required:

• Review existing DR plan for HFM platform and provide suggestions and revisions based on new version.
• Assist client in a Disaster Recovery test of the new HFM Platform prior to Go live. Up to 24 hours.

Documentation

Standard migration/upgrade project documentation includes but is not limited to the following:

• Environment Architecture Diagrams (all environments)
• Installation and configuration document (all environments except sandbox)
• Application & Artifact Migration Guide
• Technical validation document for each Oracle built environment

Training & knowledge transfer

Standard training topics includes but is not limited to the following:

General sessions to cover enhancements made to:

• HFM (including metadata update process)
• SmartView
• Reporting (FR tool
• Security
• FDMEE
• HFM Rules file creation and updating