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NTI 98745   Hyperion Administrator (contract-to-hire)

Date Posted: Apr 25 2008 Rate Range: Negotiable Job Duration: Job location: New York USA:New York Citizenship: US or perm residents Security: None   Listed By: Niche Technologists, Inc. Philadelphia, PA Contact Name: Daniel Barber E-Mail: dbarber@nichetech.com Telephone: 610-847-2143   Contract to Permanent Position Willing to Relocate Candidates

List of Skill sets required: Applications:Database:OLAP/Data Warehousing Applications:Decision Support Systems Data:Data Warehouse Industry:Broadcast TV/Radio Management:Decision Support Systems

This is one of our end clients looking to hire for this full-time position on a contract-to-hire or direct hire basis.

I have a lot of experience with this client and can talk in some depth about the company, culture, management, environment, career path, benefits, etc. The starting base salary is negotiable based on qualifications for direct hire. The hourly pay on a contract-to-hire basis is also negotiable based on qualifications.

Responsibilities for this position include
• performing production maintenance activities for the Hyperion applications on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis
• supporting the forecast and long-term planning cycles, and working directly with clients
• managing hierarchy changes as well as updating substitution variables, calc scripts, run time prompts, business rules, web forms and reports
• working closely with IT personnel and the Hyperion Development Team
• functioning as a single point of contact for the clients on all production related support and maintenance issues
• managing the disaster recovery and beta environments
• managing the migration process from production to the disaster recovery and beta environments, and keep all three environments in synch
managing all upgrades to the beta, production, and disaster recovery environments using processes documented and tested in the development environment.

Qualifications
• 3 or more years experience in Business intelligence environment(s)
• 2 or more years experience administering Hyperion applications
• 1 or more years experience with Hyperion System 9
• Some exposure to installing Hyperion software (e.g., Essbase, Planning, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and able to interact with credibility at all levels

Desirable qualifications
• Experience working in a finance/accounting area
• Knowledge of Oracle
• General knowledge of Essbase API functionality
• Some VBA experience

I appreciate your time and ask that you contact me with any questions.