Financial Reporting Specialist-Cognos SSRS

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.

Description

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.

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.