Essbase Developer

Position Summary

This is a key role supporting the day‑to‑day operation of one of our esteemed customers' core financial systems across the organization. In this role, you will support application configuration and best practices for systems including Hyperion, PeopleSoft, Concur, Oracle Transportation Management (TMS), Planview, Lucernex, and Coupa. The scope of this role will continue to expand as additional finance systems are shared across multiple business processes and application modules.

Reporting to the Finance Systems Manager and working closely with multiple business stakeholders as well as functional and technical application support teams across the enterprise, you will be responsible for ensuring the ongoing integrity, stability, and effectiveness of application functionality across the Customer's systems landscape.

This position provides an excellent opportunity to support change within a cross‑functional, multi–business unit environment, with exposure to all areas of Finance operations. The role offers a fast‑paced and challenging work environment, with regular interaction and visibility across multiple levels of management.

What you will do:

• Query, script and reporting writing within Finance applications such as Hyperion, PeopleSoft, Concur, Oracle Transportation Management (TMS), Planview, Lucernex, and Coupa
• Application configuration to support core business functionality of procure to pay (P2P)
• Ensure Finance standards are consistently achieved and proactively monitored within our core finance applications
• Engage with broader Finance Systems and Data Governance team members to perform root-cause analysis related to Finance application integrity and/or data fixes resulting from upstream system integrations
• Engage with broader Finance Business Analysts members to support in application enhancements and improvement initiatives.

What we are looking for:

• Demonstrated experience supporting financial and/or operational business processes, such as:
• Record-to-Report (close, consolidation, reporting)
• Procure-to-Pay (requisition → PO → invoice)
• Lease/real estate management and/or portfolio delivery processes
• Proven track record in incident/problem/change management with practical experience leading triage, RCA, and release coordination.
• Ability to elicit requirements and convert them into configuration recommendations and well-defined work items.
• Hands-on leadership of UAT, including test planning, execution, defect management, and go-live readiness.
• Strong understanding of integrations from a functional support standpoint (how data flows, common failure modes, reconciliation).

What you will bring:

• 5+ years in functional application support or functional analyst roles supporting enterprise applications (ERP/EPM/SaaS).
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Information Systems, Supply Chain, or equivalent experience.
• Strong functional support mindset: restore service quickly, prevent repeat issues, and improve stability over time
• Functional support experience with one or more of:
• Coupa (P2P, catalog/invoicing, supplier enablement, matching rules)
• Lucernex (leases, escalations, CAM, critical dates, lease reporting)

Good to have any of the following skills:

• PeopleSoft Financials (ChartFields, AP, GL, workflow, batch processes)
• Concur (expense policy, audit rules, corporate card feeds, ERP posting)
• OTM/TMS (tendering, execution, rating, freight settlement/audit)
• Planview (demand intake, portfolio/resource mgmt., governance workflows)
• Hyperion (planning, consolidation, metadata/hierarchies, Smart View support)
• Ability to read and validate file layouts/mapping documents, troubleshoot integration logs, and run basic queries (SQL) for investigation.
• Experience with structured intake forums, prioritization frameworks, product ownership, or ITIL-based service management.
• Experience partnering with data governance teams or supporting data quality controls and stewardship processes.

Work time: Eastern time zone (US Shift)

Strong Senior Developer – PL/SQL, SQL & ETL (Microsoft SSIS) Profile

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in PL/SQL and SQL development, including complex stored procedures, functions, queries, joins, data manipulation, and query/performance optimization.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong hands-on experience in ETL development using Microsoft SSIS, including building, maintaining, optimizing, and troubleshooting SSIS packages for large-volume data movement and transformation.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have solid experience working with Data Warehousing concepts and architectures, including data models, fact/dimension structures, ETL data flows, and enterprise reporting/data warehouse environments.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have experience managing batch jobs, scheduling, and data pipelines, ensuring timely and reliable execution of enterprise ETL workflows.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have hands-on experience in production support for SSIS/ETL and data warehouse jobs, including monitoring job execution, troubleshooting failures, performing root cause analysis, and implementing preventive fixes.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience with data quality, validation, and troubleshooting, including identifying and resolving data discrepancies/issues affecting downstream reports, dashboards, and analytics.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience with unit, integration, and regression testing of SQL, PL/SQL, and ETL components, along with strong documentation of technical designs, data mappings, data flows, and deployment processes.

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Mandatory (Location) – Must be willing to work in a hybrid model from a city where Cognizant has an office.

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Mandatory (Notice Period) – Immediate joiners or candidates who can join within 2–4 weeks.