Financial Analytics Developer
12 Months Fixed Term Contract
London - 3 days per week in the office.
This is part of the Financial Analytics team within IT, support the ongoing digital transformation of my client, primarily the development of the IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) system to meet new business requirements and continuously improve existing processes. The role requires collaborating on projects within a small team and working closely with stakeholders to understand their data, upstream systems, and associated processes.
Alongside TM1 development the role is required to support with various systems testing, documentation, model maintenance, running processes, end user queries and building advanced reports. In future there will be scope to support a Power BI platform and other new systems and data initiatives deriving from the bank's digital transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Support the development and maintenance of the IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) system including requirement analysis, design, testing, deployment, maintenance, and documentation
- Work closely with key stakeholders across the bank to understand business logic and proactively identify system enhancement opportunities
- Support from a systems perspective Finance's regular planning and reporting cycles
- Work collaboratively within the Financial Analytics team on wider transformation projects
- Make full use of TM1's capabilities to automate processes and Excel models
- Support Finance with complex ad-hoc system queries and regular report builds
- Support with defining requirements and testing of changes to upstream systems
- Monitor regular data loads, troubleshoot, and fix issues
- Follow development best practices, relevant IT policies and controls
- Train TM1 user base by sharing relevant knowledge and providing documentation
- Support TM1 user access control via joiners, movers, and leavers process
Experience:
- Architect development skills - cubes, dimensions, advanced TI processes, rules, dynamic reporting (active forms), workflows
- Data modelling and warehousing principles
- Familiar with FP&A activities
- Advanced Excel including VBA
- Strong user interface and experience design principles
- Sufficient SQL to query source databases and build new ETLs and reports
- MDX for building dynamic subsets and views
- Development lifecycle, TM1 coding best practices and change management
- Experience with Cubewise tools such as Arc, Slice & TM1Py.
- IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAX) and Workspace (PAW)
- Power BI data modelling and dashboard development
- Financial and Regulatory Reporting principles within banking
- 5+ years TM1 development experience, working on end-to-end projects ideally within small team within Financial Services
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