Senior Essbase Developer – Finance Domain

Location: Houston, TX
Position Type: Contract 
Experience: Senior Level

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Essbase Developer with strong expertise in Oracle Essbase and a solid background in the Finance domain. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing, developing, enhancing, and supporting multidimensional financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and analytical applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support Oracle Essbase applications and cubes.
• Develop and maintain BSO/ASO cubes, dimensions, hierarchies, calculation scripts, business rules, and data load rules.
• Build and optimize Essbase calculation scripts, member formulas, allocation logic, and aggregation processes.
• Support financial applications related to budgeting, forecasting, planning, consolidation, management reporting, P&L, balance sheet, and financial analysis.
• Work closely with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, and business stakeholders to understand reporting and planning requirements.
• Develop and troubleshoot MaxL scripts, automation jobs, batch processes, and data integrations.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Essbase.
• Experience with Oracle Hyperion Planning / Oracle EPM / Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
• Experience with Smart View.
• Experience with Essbase BSO and ASO applications.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Calculation Scripts
  • Business Rules
  • MaxL
  • Data Load Rules
  • Dimension Builds
  • Member Formulas
  • Allocations and Aggregations
• Strong understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.
• Good knowledge of P&L, Balance Sheet, General Ledger, financial statements, and accounting concepts.
• Experience supporting Finance or FP&A applications.
• Strong SQL scripting skills for data analysis, reconciliation, and integration.

Domain Requirement

Strong Finance domain experience is required, preferably supporting financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, accounting, or management reporting applications.