Job Description

Our Purpose
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culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Hyperion Systems Analyst-1
The Senior systems Analyst, Financial Systems will be part of Mastercard’s Financial Systems Hyperion Systems Team and is expected to lead solution design, analysis, application development, and operational support across our Hyperion Planning & Essbase application platform. Hands on development skills combined with an ability to analyze and understand end user requirements are critical success factors within this role. This role requires the skills and desire to work as an individual contributor as well as, collaborate cross functionally with various business constituents. Daily interaction and work performance within the Financial Systems team necessitates a team player with a winning attitude. Significant dealings with FP&A, Tax, Human Resources and other Mastercard groups is routine and leading system initiatives/development across these teams is required.
This challenging role calls for an individual to balance a demanding work load and priorities which include application development, process improvements, operational support, and management reporting. A demonstrated ability to understand and align system and business strategies through the delivery of scalable and sustainable application design and development is key to successful performance.
This is a work from office job located in Purchase, NY and may require minimal (~5%) travel. During critical business periods this role may require 24 hour (on call) availability to support systems and financial processing.

Role:

• Analyze, design, develop, test & implement Hyperion planning/ Essbase applications
• Provide operational support in the areas of Hyperion Planning/Essbase.
• Perform & manage business as usual activities related to operational support associated with budgeting and forecasting, profitability analytics and management reporting systems.
• Process month end and quarterly forecast activities for management reporting, manage user provisioning, monitor system environment for optimal performance.
• Perform system changes and set up required to commence allocations, budget and forecast cycle, ensuring data integrity exists for internal and external reporting.
• Maintain focus on quality deliverables and effectively manage project tasks, participate in project analysis, prepare/deliver presentations and training and provide guidance and direction to business users.
• Identify process improvement opportunities with the process / application you support.
• Demonstrate a high level of familiarity and understanding of financial planning and reporting processes and their impact and integrations with technologies and systems.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with key business users and exhibit a solid understanding of basic financial concepts and practices.

All About You:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent - required
• Relevant Professional Certifications such as Hyperion or Essbase Certification, PMP, Six Sigma, etc. - preferred

Required Experience

• A positive track record in implementing and managing Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Essbase applications in a complex business environment.
• Knowledge of industry leading Enterprise Performance Management tools such as; Cognos TM1, Cognos Planning, etc.
• Prior hands on experience implementing Hyperion Planning and Essbase solutions.
• Thorough understanding of Hyperion Planning and Essbase including development and maintenance of complex allocation models and database management is required.
• Completed and led at least 3 Hyperion Planning full cycle implementations using structured methodologies and tools to support requirements, design, development, validation, deployment and training.
• Required:

o Hyperion Planning
o Essbase
o Calc Scripts / Business Rules
o Security Administration
o Smart View
o Financial Reports.
o EPMA
o Web Analysis
o FDM
o Workforce Planning

• Additional Skills Desired:

o ODI
o Capital Planning
Professional Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Maintain professional business like appearance and conduct
• Ability to develop training collateral and lead end user training sessions
• Act in a consultative and thought leadership manner
• Self-Motivated, personally accountable and quality driven
• Ability to develop formal and informal relationships across internal and external stakeholders
• Strong understanding of process improvement/redesign
• Excellent organizational, planning and multi-tasking skills

This position may be located in Pune, India
COVID-19 Considerations
In many locations, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in our NYC offices, as required by law, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be permitted inside Mastercard offices unless a reasonable accommodation has been approved in advance.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.