Essbase Developer V

Job Purpose

• To provide senior specialist development, support and technical capability for the Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) environment supporting FirstRand's critical financial consolidation, statutory and regulatory reporting processes.
• The role is responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting HFM applications, business rules, integrations and regulatory solutions, with particular focus on ongoing SARB and regulatory change requirements.
• A key strategic objective is to strengthen succession capability, transfer critical institutional knowledge and reduce key-person dependency within the HFM regulatory reporting environment.

Are you someone who can:

• Design, develop, enhance and support HFM applications and regulatory reporting solutions.
• Develop and maintain HFM business rules, calculations, consolidation logic, metadata and validation controls.
• Translate Finance, Regulatory Reporting and SARB-driven requirements into controlled technical solutions.
• Assess and implement regulatory changes within required reporting timelines.
• Support HFM integrations, data loads, reconciliations and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Provide senior Level 3 production support, root-cause analysis and permanent problem resolution.
• Support critical regulatory reporting cycles, month-end, quarter-end and financial year-end.
• Comply with SDLC, change management, audit, risk, access and segregation-of-duties controls.
• Support HFM upgrades, platform modernisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain technical, application, process and operational documentation.
• Participate in structured knowledge transfer, cross-skilling and mentoring to build sustainable internal HFM capability.

As a #Changeable you will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Work that is challenging
• Opportunities to innovate.
• Flexible working environment
• Deep focus on health and wellbeing
• Coaches and mentors to help with your professional development.
• A very Generous leave policy to cater for your individual needs.
• Preferential employee banking rates that include Vehicle and Home loans. For more details see attachment

We can be a match if you are:

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
• A team player - you believe in the power of teams so you're always part of one, building and leveraging your networks.
• Emotionally intelligent - you have a high EQ that enables you to truly connect with people, no matter how technical or specialist your role is.

You'll be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a BSC Computer Sciences, BSC Informatics or related degree.
• 5+ years' relevant enterprise application development/support experience, preferably including 3+ years' hands-on HFM experience.
• Strong knowledge of HFM application development, business rules and financial consolidation.
• Experience supporting business-critical financial, statutory or regulatory reporting applications.
• Knowledge of SDLC, change management, incident/problem management and technology controls.
• Financial services, regulatory reporting, SARB, Oracle EPM, FDMEE, SQL and integration experience would be advantageous.

End Date: November 17, 2026