IBM Planning Analytics Developer (m/fd) at StepStone · Dusseldorf

Company Description

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.

Job Description

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for driving the development, stability, and continuous improvement of our IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) ecosystem, enabling reliable planning, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

Working in the Group Finance Solutions department, you will collaborate with international stakeholders, corporate controllers, and financial analysts to design and deliver innovative technical solutions, optimize planning and reporting processes, and ensure efficient integration between TM1 and key corporate systems.

You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of the day-to-day management, administration, monitoring, and continuous optimization of the system landscape, including server administration and issue resolution.
• Partner closely with international stakeholders, corporate controllers, and financial analysts to translate complex global business requirements into scalable and efficient technical solutions.
• Design, build, and enhance complex IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) cubes, dimensions, rules, and TurboIntegrator (TI) processes to support enterprise-wide planning and reporting processes.
• Develop, maintain, and improve intuitive user interfaces within Planning Analytics while ensuring robust data integrations and data flows between IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) and key corporate systems.
• Provide end-user support, training, and documentation, while establishing best practices and ensuring adherence to governance standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in a finance systems, financial planning, or consulting environment.
• Strong expertise in multidimensional data modelling, particularly within IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), including TurboIntegrator (TI), rules, and MDX.
• Solid understanding of relational databases; experience with other reporting and planning solutions such as Anaplan or Lucanet is considered an advantage.
• Basic knowledge of FP&A and accounting processes in a corporate environment, combined with strong written and verbal communication skills in English and/or German.

Additional Information

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 30 days of holidays + 1 Cultural Heritage Day + 2 extra days for Christmas and New Year's Eve
• Hybrid working model
• Company pension scheme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Volunteering days
• Job bike
• Discounted parking or job ticket
• Discounted Well Hub membership
• In-house gym
• In-house barista
• And you can bring your dog to the office!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.