Ranzal designs and implements Business Performance Management solutions for a broad variety of industries in various locations. Most of our work is currently in North America using Hyperion Solutions software. We seek applicants who currently live in or are willing to relocate (at their own expense) to one of the following areas: Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Denver/Boulder, Florida, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

We offer an independent, dynamic, fast-paced business environment with opportunities for training, growth and advancement, along with a competitive compensation and benefits package. Our compensation plans are highly leveraged, rewarding top performers. Consultants have the opportunity to earn a substantial bonus based on their hours of billable client work. Bonuses are paid quarterly and the bonus can exceed 50% of the base compensation.

Our consultants typically work together with client resources and frequently with a team of other consultants to implement complex web-based Business Performance Management solutions. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience working in finance organizations, with a solid understanding of the nature of work performed by financial analysts, controllers, finance directors, and CFOs. 

The ideal candidate is committed to their client’s success and is willing to make personal sacrifices to ensure that success. They actively seek knowledge and experience and share their experience with others.

The ideal candidate easily adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Candidates must exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills. They should be able to demonstrate experience with structured project management and/or the software package implementation process. Knowledge of client server environments and experience with financial accounting processes is of great importance.

This position may require substantial travel to out-of-town clients, and the applicant must be willing to travel as required (as much as 80%+). When out-of-town travel is required, the consultant will spend weekends at home; weekend travel is rare.

FINANCIAL DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT - LEAD CONSULTANT AND SENIOR LEAD CONSULTANT

Ranzal is seeking Oracle Financial Data Quality Management consultants at various levels. These individuals will be responsible for implementing financial consolidation, budgeting and operational reporting solutions utilizing a variety of current Hyperion/Oracle products for new and existing clients. The ideal candidate must be committed to their client’s success and will actively seek knowledge and experience and share their experience with others.

Lead Consultants are responsible for project scoping, system design and documentation, project and resource planning, leadership, guidance, and quality assurance throughout the build, test, and rollout of a system, and project status and budget monitoring and reporting. They also participate in pre-sales activity working with prospective client helping Ranzal to win new business. Lead Consultants will be seen as best practice leaders in the company. They actively document and share knowledge and mentor consultants with less experience.

Requirements

  • Four-year college degree in fields such as (but not limited to) Accounting, Business, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, or CIS, or equivalent work experience.
  • Practical experience using Oracle’s Financial Data Quality Management.
  • Two years of full time experience (or equivalent):
  • Working directly with one or more of Hyperion Solutions’ products (especially Hyperion Financial Management);
  • Working with the budgeting, planning, consolidations, or financial analytics processes;
  • Working as lead consultant or project manager in finance-related software implementation(s).
  • Extensive experience with MS Project, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Internet Explorer
  • This position may require travel to out-of-town clients, and applicant must be willing to travel up to 80%.

Additional Qualifications Preferred

  • Product certification from Hyperion Solutions in Hyperion Financial Management.
  • Dual major, separate, or advanced degrees related to accounting/finance and information technology.
  • A professional accounting designation (e.g. CPA, CMA, CGA, CA), advanced degrees (MBA, MFA), and/or other professional designations or certifications (applicable to accounting/finance and information technology).
  • Experience with architecting of Oracle / Hyperion solution.
  • Experience with some or all of the core Oracle / Hyperion System 9 Applications: Financial Management, Planning and Essbase.
  • Experience with the Oracle / Hyperion BI+ toolset: Web Analysis, Financial Reporting and SmartView.
  • Understands business hierarchies, can utilize database tools and SQL to build and manage data. EDW implementation and ETL tool experience a plus.
  • Has integrated Master Data Management tool or data with data warehouse.
  • Can explain an overall approach which includes functional requirements definition, expression of those requirements in a design, fulfillment of those requirements in implementation, and confirmation of that fulfillment through thorough testing and recording of provable results.
  • Understands data governance concepts.
  • Understands multiple dimension designs, star-schemas, and data models.
  • Experience designing, developing complex business reports and dashboards.
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Four-year college degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Previous consulting experience a plus.
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 100% for client engagements on a nation-wide basis.

HYPERION DATA ARCHITECT

As an Hyperion Data Architect you will set and enforce the Data Delivery design, development, and architecture standards for our projects. You will serve as the leader of the Data Delivery development team. The architect will provide the deep technical leadership and define the overall application and technical architecture based on Hyperion Planning and Reporting solutions.

  • Ensure appropriate implementation and utilization of technology within both the development and production environments, according to best practices.
  • Design and develop overall application / technical architecture based on Hyperion Planning / Reporting and widely-accepted and proven Enterprise Data Warehousing strategies as appropriate to provide relational source system data to the Hyperion Solution.
  • Establish application and technical architecture strategy that aligns with our clients’ business strategy.
  • Provide technical architecture domain expertise and advice to IT leadership in the development of information technology strategic plan to support business strategies.
  • Establish, maintain and enhance relationships with business and IT partners.
  • Communicate status to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
  • Perform consultative selling and leverage business through superior delivery skills, good client relations, and subject matter expertise.
  • Participate in proposal efforts and sales calls.

Requirements

  • Experience with architecting of Oracle / Hyperion solutions
  • Experience with some or all of the core Oracle / Hyperion System 9 Applications: Financial Management, Planning and Essbase.
  • Experience with the Oracle / Hyperion BI+ toolset: Web Analysis, Financial Reporting and SmartView.
  • Understands business hierarchies, can utilize database tools and SQL to build and manage data. EDW implementation and ETL tool experience a plus.
  • Has integrated Master Data Management tool or data with data warehouse
  • Can explain an overall approach which includes functional requirements definition, expression of those requirements in a design, fulfillment of those requirements in implementation, and confirmation of that fulfillment through thorough testing and recording of provable results.
  • Understands data governance concepts.
  • Understands multiple dimension designs, star-schemas, and data models.
  • Experience designing, developing complex business reports and dashboards.
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Four-year college degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Previous consulting experience a plus.
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 100% for client engagements on a nation-wide basis.

HFM - LEAD CONSULTANT AND SENIOR LEAD CONSULTANT

Ranzal is seeking Hyperion Financial Management consultants at various levels. These individuals will be responsible for implementing financial consolidation, budgeting and operational reporting solutions utilizing a variety of current Hyperion products for new and existing clients. Implementation work includes process redesign skills, application and system design, software installation/ troubleshooting and application development. Our consultants typically work together with client resources and frequently with a team of other consultants to implement complex web-based Business Performance Management solutions. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience working in finance organizations, with a solid understanding of the nature of work performed by financial analysts, controllers, finance directors, and CFOs. The ideal candidate will easily adapt to new environments and changing requirements. Candidates must exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills. They should be able to demonstrate experience with structured project management and/or software package implementation process. Knowledge of client server environment and experience with financial accounting processes is of great importance.

Lead Consultants are responsible for project scoping, system design and documentation, project and resource planning, leadership, guidance, and quality assurance throughout the build, test, and rollout of a system, and project status and budget monitoring and reporting. Lead Consultants understand and are responsible to satisfy both the functional and technical requirements for a system design. Lead consultants also participate in pre-sales activity working with prospective client helping Ranzal to win new business. Lead Consultants will provide guidance and direction to more junior consultants and client resources. They are independent in nature. They take and give direction well and work well in a team environment. They are natural leaders. Lead Consultants have substantial experience designing and implementing one or more products and/or technologies offered by Hyperion Solutions (especially Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management and/or Hyperion Essbase). Lead Consultants will be seen as best practice leaders in the company. They actively document and share knowledge and mentor consultant with less experience. .

  • Four-year college degree in fields such as (but not limited to) Accounting, Business, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, or CIS, or equivalent work experience.
  • One year of full time experience (or equivalent) working directly with one or more of Hyperion Solutions’ products (especially Hyperion Financial Management)
  • One year or more of full time work experience and/or six months of full time experience working as an administrator or power user with one or more of Hyperion Solutions’ products (especially Hyperion Financial Management).
  • Extensive experience with MS Project, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Internet Explorer

Additional Qualifications Preferred

  • One year or more of full time consulting work experience and/or one year of full time experience working as an administrator or power user with one or more of Hyperion Solutions’ products (especially Hyperion Financial Management).
  • Product certification from Hyperion Solutions in Hyperion Financial Management.
  • Dual major, separate, or advanced degrees related to accounting/finance and information technology.
  • A professional accounting designation (e.g. CPA, CMA, CGA, CA), advanced degrees (MBA, MFA), and/or other professional designations or certifications (applicable to accounting/finance and information technology).


FINANCIAL DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT - JR. CONSULTANT

Ranzal has a great opportunity for a Junior level person with Oracle Financial Data Quality Management experience. This individual will work with and learn from a team responsible for implementing financial consolidation, budgeting and operational reporting solutions utilizing a variety of current Hyperion/Oracle products for new and existing clients.

Requirements

  • Four-year college degree in fields such as (but not limited to) Accounting, Business, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, or CIS, or equivalent work experience.
  • 1+ years experience with Oracle’s Financial Data Quality Management.
  • This position may require travel to out-of-town clients, and applicant must be willing to travel up to 80%.
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 100% for client engagements on a nation-wide basis.

ORACLE/HYPERION DATA RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - LEAD CONSULTANT AND SENIOR LEAD CONSULTANT

Ranzal is seeking Oracle/Hyperion Data Relationship Management consultants at various levels. These individuals will be responsible for supporting existing DRM implementation along with designing and implementing DRM for both new and existing clients.

The ideal candidate will easily adapt to new environments and changing requirements in an exciting and fast paced consulting world. Candidates must exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills. They should be able to demonstrate experience with structured project management and/or the software package implementation process. Most importantly, candidates must be open to learning new skills and advancing their portfolio of knowledge.

The ideal candidate must be committed to their clients success and willing to do what it takes to help ensure that success. They actively seek knowledge and experience and share their experience with others.

This position requires substantial travel to out-of-town clients; applicants must be able to travel 80% nationwide. All efforts will be made to keep consultants regionally based.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the project implementation team on the day to day implementation tasks on an engagement.
  • Communicate any project related issues immediately to the Project Lead / Principal.
  • Provide ongoing support and guidance to all members to the project implementation team.
  • Develop and promote governance, stewardship, and frameworks for managing master data.

Requirements

  • Experience with implementation or administration of Oracle|Hyperion DRM / MDM / Razza.
  • Experience with some or all of the core Oracle|Hyperion System 9 Applications: Financial Management, Planning or Essbase.
  • Experience with the Oracle|Hyperion BI+ toolset: Web Analysis, Financial Reporting and SmartView.
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Basic understanding of corporate finance and technical business solutions
  • Basic understanding of key IT / Business systems  ERP, General Ledger, Reporting & Analytics, Data Warehousing, CRM, etc.
  • Four-year college degree in fields such as (but not limited to) Accounting, Business, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, or CIS, or equivalent work experience.
  • Previous consulting experience a plus.