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Oracle EPM Planning - Hyperion Planning Essbase Developer

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Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise,

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The primary objective of this role is to design, develop, and support Oracle EPM Planning and Essbase applications to enable financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes. The role bridges business requirements and technical implementation, ensuring scalable, high-performing, and well-governed planning solutions.

Own the full application lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, and support)
Translate business requirements into EPM Planning solutions and models
Drive continuous improvement and evolution of planning models

Develop Essbase cubes, outlines, hierarchies, and dimensions
Build and maintain business rules, calculation logic, and data forms
Optimise application performance (calculation efficiency, cube design)

Design and maintain data integrations using Data Exchange / FDMEE
Enable automated data pipelines between source systems and EPM
Ensure data quality, reconciliation, and auditability

Maintain metadata, security models, and application configurations
Execute regular data loads and manage planning cycles
Support upgrades, patches, and environment maintenance

Provide ongoing support to Finance users
Troubleshoot system, data, and performance issues
Gather new requirements and improve user experience

Train end-users on planning processes and Smart View usage
Maintain technical and functional documentation

Oracle EPM Planning / Hyperion Planning (Cloud and on-prem)
Essbase (cube design, calc scripts, MDX)
Calculation Manager (business rules, Groovy scripting advantageous)
Data integration tools (FDMEE / Data Exchange)
SQL (PostgreSQL or MS SQL)
Oracle Smart View (reporting and input templates)
Cloud platforms:
- OCI (user management, monitoring)
- AWS (S3, Glue, RDS)

2–3 years’ experience in Oracle Hyperion / Essbase / EPM Planning development
Exposure to financial planning, budgeting, or forecasting processes
Experience in end-to-end solution delivery and support

Preferred: BCom (Informatics) or BSc (Computer Science)
Alternatively: Relevant diploma or equivalent qualification

Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
Ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions
Effective stakeholder engagement and communication
Attention to detail, governance, and control mindset

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised