Top 3 Must have skills / Primary skills
- IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 Cognos
- Good knowledge in Finance budgeting processes
- Experience in application support and development work

Responsibilities:
- Good understanding of the budgeting & forecasting process.
- Quick learner and able to understand implemented system functionality.
- Perform impact analysis and resolve production defects.
- Manage daily operation chores/nightly data refresh in the IBM PA project and share observations if any.
- Fix data load failure, errors and warnings.
- Variance analysis/ data validation on monthly or quarterly close.
- Ensure data archival, restore and backup procedure.
- Upgrade and apply patches for IBM PA application (on premise IBM PA on GCC Cloud).
- Experience in cutover activities and well verse in executing the steps.
- Experience in deployment activities post fixes and enhancement.
- Work closely with infrastructure team for any environment issues, security, and concerns.
- Working hours: 8am to 7.30pm on weekdays, 9am to 12.30pm on Saturday (for deployments/upgrade work).

Technical Skills:
- Fundamental concepts:
- Cube, Dimension, element and hierarchy.
- Rules and feeders
- TI Process
- Data Type (numeric, string, consolidation)
- PAW, PAX, Pafe, TM1

PAW:
- Creating and managing cubes, dimensions, hierarchies, and subsets directly from PAW
- Defining relationships, attributes, and aliases
- Writing and testing rules within PAW’s rule editor
- Building and executing TI (TurboIntegrator) processes
- Managing feeders efficiently

UI/UX:
- Designing intuitive PAW books and sheets
- Using widgets, tabs, selectors, and quick reports
- Best practices for layout, formatting, and usability

Security:
- Object security (cube, dimension, element, process, chore)
- Cell-level security rules and application security

Admin:
- Backup and recovery of PAW books and assets
- Deployment and upgrade

Others:
- Python Scripting (Good to have)
- Advance TI & Rule debugging
- Conditional Rule
- Feeder optimization
- Debugging feeders