Senior Product Support Specialist (IBM Cognos Stack)

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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Eurofins IT Delivery Center India - Eurofins Scientific

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Job Description

Position Title: Senior Product Support Specialist (IBM Cognos Stack)

Work location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid (8.00 AM to 5.00 PM OR 12.00PM to 9.00PM IST)

Department: Financial Consolidation, Controlling & Reporting

Team Scope: IBM Cognos Controller, IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), IBM Cognos Analytics

Position Purpose:

• We are seeking an experienced Financial Systems Support Engineer to join our core Financial Consolidation, Controlling, and Reporting Platform team. In this role, you will be pivotal in maintaining high system availability, driving rapid ticket turnaround times, and elevating our Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Working within a hybrid ecosystem of permanent specialists and rotational Top Graduates, you will actively engage in continuous job rotation and cross-functional knowledge sharing. This position offers a balance of functional financial support, technical troubleshooting, support reporting optimization, and continuous application maintenance across our entire IBM software suite.
• Work Location will be Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd, which is one of our Service Delivery Centres based in Bangalore. Since the application has a global footprint and functions for all management levels as a decision-making source, you will have a considerable high exposure to the Eurofins Headquarters, based in Brussels (Belgium), from which the overall road map of the platform is defined.

Key Responsibilities

1. Incident Management & SLA Excellence

• Act as a Tier-1 to Tier-3 escalation point for user inquiries, system bugs, data discrepancies, and performance issues across IBM Cognos Controller, IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), and IBM Cognos Analytics.

• Drive ticket resolution from triage to closure, ensuring strict adherence to established target response and resolution SLAs.

• Conduct root-cause analyses for recurring incidents and implement permanent resolutions to prevent repeat tickets.

2. Support Process Streamlining & Reporting

• Design, refine, and automate weekly/monthly Support KPIs and SLA Reporting dashboards (measuring ticket volume, turnaround times, backlog trends, and resolution rates).

• Standardize incident categorization, escalation pathways, and documentation to make support operations transparent and reproducible.

• Identify bottlenecks in the end-to-end support workflow and implement continuous process improvements.

3. Knowledge Sharing & Team Job Rotation

• Participate actively in the team’s Job Rotation Framework, gaining hands-on maintenance, development, and support exposure across all three IBM core applications.

• Mentor and guide the team’s Top Graduates, facilitating fast onboarding and structured skill transfer in financial systems administration.

• Maintain and expand the team’s Central Knowledge Base, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and user troubleshooting guides.

4. Application Maintenance & Minor Enhancements

• Assist with month-end and quarter-end financial closing support activities (data loads, consolidation runs, dimension maintenance, security updates).

• Perform continuous maintenance, small system enhancements, and script updates in collaboration with the Development and Administration teams.

• Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) and post-deployment validation for platform updates or release cycles.

5.Proactive & Assertive Communicator

• Articulate complex financial-technical concepts clearly and concisely in written English (SOPs, ticket updates, reports).

• Confidently drive discussions, set expectations, and interact with business users and technical teams with clarity and constructive tact & diplomacy.

Required Qualifications & Skills

1. Experience: 4 - 6 years of hands-on technical/functional support or development experience in enterprise financial systems.
2. Core Stack Software: Solid working knowledge of at least two of the following tools, with a willingness to learn the third:
   • IBM Cognos Controller (Financial consolidation, multi currency, closing)
   • IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 (TI Processes, Rules, Active Forms, PAW)
   • IBM Cognos Analytics (Data modules, Report Studio, Reporting, Dashboards, Security)
3. Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of Financial Accounting, Controlling, Group Consolidation workflows, and Month-End Close processes.
4. Process & ITSM: Practical familiarity with ITIL / Service Desk principles (Incident Management, SLA tracking, Change Management, Ticketing tools like Jira/ServiceNow/BMC Helix).
5. Soft Skills: Strong analytical problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication, and a genuine passion for continuous learning and peer mentoring.
6. Communication: C1/C2 professional fluency in written and spoken English, paired with an assertive, confident, and persuasive communication style suitable for business and technical stakeholders.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience building automated reports or SQL queries to track service desk metrics.
• Basic experience with scripting (Python, PowerShell, TM1 Calculation Rules and Turbo Integrator scripts) or ETL processes.
• Background in mentoring junior analysts or graduates within an IT or Finance environment.

Qualifications

BE Computer Science/MCA or any other Bachelor’s degree with the right experience