The vacancy is a new position for a Business Application Specialist of our Cognos ecosystem: IBM Planning Analytics (a.k.a. TM1), IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), IBM Cognos Analytics, Cognos Disclosure Management (CDM), IBM Controller and a few more both for internal and external integrations with on-premise and cloud applications and environments. We keep the Cognos ecosystem applications up to date and update them at least once a year to the newest versions. You will be the main application specialist of the Cognos ecosystem, both supporting, developing and leading projects. Most of your time you will be spending on improving and developing TI processes and rules of our Planning Analytics model.
To handle issues and plan our work, we use Jira (with weekly sprints), ClickUp and Slack channels. Mostly you will work in Polish, however rarely (about a few times a month) there will be a meeting, user’s issue or case to face with using English only.
responsibilities :
From the technical side: work closely with such applications like SAP, Teta HR and SmartRecruiters (our HRIS), Google Workspace (including Google Cloud Platform projects), GitHub, SQL databases (MS SQL, Oracle, BigQuery, Snowflake), TIBCO (our enterprise service bus, ESB) and Salesforce CRM. You will be taking care of business data and its flow within both production and non-production environments
From the business side: work for over 700 users using the Cognos ecosystem applications from a few countries. Our customers are both finance teams (such as accountants, controlling, treasury or consolidation teams) and all the managers and team leaders. They use the Cognos ecosystem both for reporting actual, budget and forecast
Work on Windows Servers (the older version is 2016, the newest: 2022) on-premise both using RDP connections, by Excel add-ins and by a web browser. We have 15 virtual machines in the production environment and 5 in non-production. We have about 10 TM1 instances
Verify and analyze information from users and create solutions based on business requirements, including lead projects, develop and provide support for the business users
Work using two redundant data centers and work within two Active Directory domains (in both data centers)
Use git
Assume the role of coordinator of numerous tasks and projects that will be aimed at adapting solutions to the needs and requirements of our internal clients
Cooperate with third party vendors
Be responsible for cooperation with external suppliers
Be responsible for maintaining and managing the infrastructure and security of subordinate systems
Application support and involvement in new functionalities/rollouts implementations
Track and resolve your own tickets
Close cooperate with business/key users
Be preparing business documentations and functional specifications
Have access to professional tools and the opportunity to constantly develop your skills
requirements-expected :
We are looking for a specialist who:
Has experience in supporting, developing and managing Cognos ecosystems applications
Has understanding of accounting, controlling, treasury and financial consolidation processes
Has worked with many TM1 instances at once and can process data between them and different environments
Has experience in leading projects and change requests
Has experience in analysis of data from SQL databases and do CRUD on them
Has knowledge about user security management
Is familiar with Planning Analytics, CDM and Controller issues
Takes responsibility for their topics, pay attention to details, are independent and well organized
Shows initiative and dynamism in action, they can prioritize tasks
Speaks English at work to discuss at meetings about users’ cases (B2 level at least)
benefits :
sharing the costs of sports activities
private medical care
sharing the costs of foreign language classes
sharing the costs of professional training & courses
