Ralph Lauren Sr Analyst, Hyperion

Ralph Lauren; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralph Lauren seeks a Senior Analyst, Hyperion to optimize Hyperion Essbase (OCI) and FCCS, delivering BAU support and enabling advanced financial reporting across the global IT and business teams. The role focuses on performance optimization, documentation, and continuous improvements within a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities include managing daily operations, delivering analytics, and implementing automation with Calc scripts, MaxL, Smart View, and Python/Java/Groovy scripting to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Hyperion Essbase experience (OCI) and FCCS administration.
• Experience in financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and close processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily BAU operations and system performance.
• Provide SME-level support for Hyperion financial systems and analytical insights.
• Deliver system enhancements through improvements, automation, and upgrades.
• Develop and maintain documentation for requirements, design, and support; ensure compliant release management.
• Collaborate with global IT and business partners to gather requirements and drive improvements.

Skills

Hyperion Essbase OCI

FCCS Administration

Scripting (Python/Java/Groovy)

Calc scripts/MaxL/Smart View

Data integration & automation

Functional requirements & design

Tools

PowerShell

Windows batch

Job description

Position Overview

The Senior Analyst, Hyperion will join our Hyperion Team to optimize and collaborate with IT Team and stakeholders for maintaining and enhancing Essbase (OCI) and FCCS applications, driving performance and efficiency, and working closely with a diverse team to advance Financial Reporting capabilities for Business. Purpose & Scope:

• Work in a global IT team to manage Hyperion Essbase in OCI and FCCS applications to carry out Financial Reporting for Business
• Provide ongoing BAU (Business-As-Usual) support to ensure seamless system operations.
• Developing skills to contribute to Reporting, Forecasting and Budgeting initiatives.
• Oracle Hyperion capabilities include Reporting, Forecasting, Budgeting for Financial users. This system is used globally 24/7 by our financial users to do Reporting. It is a web-based application with upstream and downstream integration with various internal and external systems such as D365, SAP ECC, ADF, SAP BI.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations and maintenance ensuring seamless business-as-usual (BAU) operations and optimal system performance.
• Provide expert-level application support and serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in Hyperion financial systems, delivering sophisticated analytical support and insights that drive business planning excellence.
• Work schedule: This role requires working in general shift with being available to have a hand-shake calls with US team.
• Application Enhancements & Projects: Deliver system enhancements through continuous improvement initiatives, automation, upgrades, and process optimization. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for system requirements, design, and support. Ensure compliant release management, adhering to IT standards and regulations. Employ an agile approach, facilitating collaborative discussions, incremental releases, and stakeholder engagement to achieve prioritized business objectives.
• Application Infrastructure Management: Expertise in below modules of Oracle Cloud EPM, including Essbase, Planning, Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS).

Continuous Improvement & Training

Narrative Reporting Continuous Improvement: Drive IT continuous improvement initiatives by delivering quality and expertise, positioning the team as a strategic CoE for Ralph Lauren. Change and Training: Analyze and support stakeholder change and training needs for the Hyperion Essbase and FCCS application users, contributing to the development of a knowledge base and targeted training to optimize support efficiency. Collaborate with IT and business to gather feedback, recommend improvements, and ensure seamless communication. Deliver training sessions on new features, troubleshoot user issues, and provide expert application guidance. Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including Global IT, Regional IT, Corporate Reporting Teams, FP&A Teams, to ensure alignment and effective issue resolution.

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Hyperion Essbase (OCI) Reporting: 8+ years of deep experience with Oracle Hyperion; Design, develop, and maintain Essbase applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI); Administer and support Hyperion Essbase, ensuring that financial data is properly integrated, modeled, and reported; Maintain Essbase (OCI) cubes, data loads, and calculations and automation for data integration, Actuals load; Optimize cube performance, including development of calculation scripts, Essbase script tuning, and troubleshooting data load errors; Support financial reporting and analytics, including creation of custom Essbase reports and dashboards; Month‑end activities close & open period and related tasks; Technical Skills: Expert proficiency in Essbase scripting (Calc scripts, MaxL, Report scripts, PowerShell, Windows batch), Smart View, and administration; Strong skills in scripting that includes Python scripting, Java scripting, Groovy script, is a must.
• FCCS Administration: Administer and support the FCCS application, including configuration of consolidation, reporting, and data integration; Maintain and update FCCS settings such as hierarchies, metadata, and financial dimensions; Monitor FCCS application performance and troubleshoot issues related to consolidation, reporting, and data loads.
• Functional Skills: Collaborate with global business partners to gather requirements, perform gap analysis, and configure EPM solutions to meet business needs; Create functional and design documentation aligned with business requirements and Oracle best practices; Coordinate and manage change requests and enhance projects from initiation through completion; Drive business process improvements and automation using Oracle EPM capabilities; Partner with development teams to translate functional requirements into technical solutions and validate deliverables.