Cognos and SSRS Specialist

Who are we

Fulcrum Digital is an agile and
next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation
and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services
have applicability across a variety of industries, including banking &
financial services, insurance, retail, higher education, food, healthcare, and
manufacturing.

The Role

The Financial Reporting Specialist will be
responsible for obtaining report requirements and preparing and delivering
insightful financial Advertising reports for Hearst Newspapers at the Corporate
level and the local market level.  The position will also need to
understand and modify existing reports as requested by the business
users.  Excellent communication skills are a must for the position
because of the need to directly interact with business users to gather
requirements and work with the users to validate and ensure the accuracy of the
reports. 

Specific Responsibilities: 

• Create/modify
  Cognos and SSRS reports as requested by the business users.
  
• Schedule queries
  to run automatically and set up to email reports to recipients.
  
• Modify the Cognos
  framework on an infrequent basis.
  
• Develop Informer
  queries to report on data from Naviga Ad.
  
• Explore and
  recommend other reporting tools that can replace Cognos.
  
• Prepares and
  presents written and oral presentations.
  
• Keeps management
  apprised of project status.
  
• Other duties as
  assigned.
  

Mandatory skills:

• Cognos 11 and SSRS
  with 5 to 6 yrs of relevant experience
  
• Experience in
  Informer queries
  
• Individual
  Contributor
  
• Excellent and
  Effective communication and presentation skills
  
• Client Interaction
  for requirement elicitation experience is must
  

 Desired skills:
PowerBI
Reporting, Database understanding (SQL Server, Oracle, UniData), Best practices
for creating reports

Requirements

 General Skills:

• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and
  problem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to effectively communicate with
  organizational personnel to define problems and present solutions at all levels
  of the organization.
  
• Strong interpersonal, presentation,
  written and oral communication skills.
  
• Ability to work in a team-oriented,
  collaborative environment.
  
• Ability to translate customer requirements
  into specifications.
  
• Detail oriented with the ability to meet
  deadlines.
  
• Comfortable in rapidly changing and
  sometimes ambiguous work situations.
  
• Possesses strategic thinking combined with
  tactical project planning and management skills.
  

Specific Skills:

• Strong skills creating and maintaining
  Cognos queries using Cognos 11 required.
  
• Experience developing/updating Cognos
  framework packages using Cognos 11.
  
• Possesses skills and experience using SSRS
  and SQL queries.
  
• Experience developing reports with PowerBI
  is desired.
  
• Skills using Informer and other reporting
  tools a plus.
  
• Understanding of databases (SQL Server,
  Oracle and UniData) is desired.
  
• Knowledgeable of best practices for the
  creation of reports.
  

Education Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information
  Technology or other related field.
  
• IBM Cognos Designer Certification a plus.
  
• 4+ years’ experience developing Cognos
  framework packages and Cognos queries.