Assistant Manager

Summary

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise.  The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution. Alongside world-class legal careers, Clifford Chance offers excellent opportunities in business professional functions that underpin its business operations.

​We are a purpose-driven business with core values at the heart of everything we do, we actively demonstrate what it means to do the right thing both internally and externally. We want to create a space where everyone feels respected, included, valued and listened to and our values are demonstrated through our behaviour. Our Code of Conduct is value based and embodies five Principles – Act with Integrity, Be Inclusive, Embrace Challenge, Speak Up and Act Responsibly.

We have an established presence in India for more than ten years, delivering value and supporting Clifford Chance offices across the globe in the areas of Information Technology, Finance, Business Research, HR Services, Legal Support, Document Production, Project Management and Continuous Improvement. We have been certified as a 'Great Place to Work' in India for implementing people practices that foster collaboration and enable employees to reach their full potential. We are proud of the colleagues who work for us and of the service that together we provide, many of whom are experts in their own sectors. Join us and you will experience, first-hand, the one firm, one team approach that makes working at Clifford Chance so different.

Job Overview

Assistant Manager – HFM will support the administration of the global Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) application including future enhancements as well as the metadata management across the Corporate Hyperion Applications. 

Key Responsibilities

Our key priorities for this role are:

• HFM and Hyperion Planning - V11.1.2.4, Plus with experience in: creating and maintaining business rules, calculation scripts, web forms, mappings and reports, using the following tools:
  • FDMEE
  • Financial Reporting Studio
  • Calculation Manager
  • Life Cycle Manager
  • Smartview 
  • System Maintenance
• Maintain HFM applications across all active environments (Production, Test and Development)
• Perform maintenance of HFM Apps including the execution and monitoring of extract and load processes
• Roll forward of Systems
  • Managing Applications
• Manage consolidations and integrations; perform validations from source systems and ensure source data flows downstream as required to Hyperion Planning applications
• Perform data reconciliation and maintain data integrity of what is being loaded into the HFM application and downstream Planning applications
• Maintain key processes used to support the consolidation and financial reporting with HFM and other applications
• Ability to perform monthly metadata maintenance
• Open to learn other New Technology – Oracle R12 , etc.
• Experience in creating and maintaining workflows (for Hyperion Planning and HFM)
• Financial Reporting Studio
• Experience and understanding of the importance of controlled environments used for tracking changes, with experience of using LCM to migrate artefacts across environments.
• Develop various reports (Financial Reporting Studio and Smart View) as needed by business
• Maintain financial information within various applications
• Expert in data mining & Adhoc analysis and routine financial close tasks
  • User Support
• Troubleshoot end user issues
• Ability to manage user security roles and access
• A deep understanding of Hyperion Reporting products
• Finance and accounting background, with a firm understanding of the structure and functionality of the General Ledger (Oracle Financials would be preferred) and accounting knowledge (fully/part qualified would be beneficial).
• A work ethic which provides consistent hours of work to provide support to all offices during their busiest times.
• Experience with Chart of Accounts setup and performing monthly metadata maintenance through EPMA
• Understanding shared services for provisioning users via groups and knowledge of Life Cycle Manager
• Providing support/answer questions and resolving issues from the end users during Month, Quarter and Year ends and also Forecasting and Budgeting cycles (end users , FP&A team and Financial Controllers and their teams around the globe)
• Maintain functional administrator and end user documentation and checklists
• Ensuring user process documents are up to date and working efficiently
• Maintain end user training documents and deliver training where necessary
• Build working relationships with the end user community to deliver a high level of support
• Assist with system testing after maintenance and service patches
• Maintain Service Now tickets
• Update and maintain Oracle FSG reports
• Should understand and work on Advanced/Smart excel formulaes.
• Update and maintain Mass Allocation routines in Oracle Financials
•  During quieter periods assist the larger team with development/project tasks where appropriate

Skills and Experience

• A minimum of three (4-5) years of hands-on Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) experience with an overall five (5-7) years of relevant experience
• Ability to analyze financial data and financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flows)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including the ability to understand and manipulate basic spreadsheets Highly skilled in Excel.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Knowledgeable of General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable systems.
• Knowledgeable of Oracle ERP and General Ledger applications
• Knowledgeable of other Hyperion applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a must.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely express ideas both verbally and in writing
• Absolute discretion and confidentiality regarding sensitive information
• Positive attitude and dedication
• Strong analytical, organizational and data gathering with documentation skills
• High level of Integrity
• Practical approach to solving problems 
• Strong Analytical and decision-making Skill
• Organizational and Strategic thinking 
• Ability to adapt any process changes in minimal time period

Equal opportunities

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. We believe that each and every one of us should experience an equality of opportunity and an equality of experience here. We are always working to develop and deliver the best and most innovative approaches to make that happen. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are therefore committed to treating all employees and job applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

The firm will regularly review its procedures and selection criteria to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated according to their relevant individual abilities and merits.

We have a a number of initiatives and networks that support our aspiration to be the Global Law Firm of choice. These include our LGBT, Gender Parity, Ethnicity and Disability networks.