Overview
This role involves managing Anaplan planning solutions and supporting key finance planning processes, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, corporate cost support, and Long-Range Planning. The position also helps drive alignment between functional finance, field finance, and Senior Finance leadership on key assumptions, process inputs, and process timing.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key member of the Finance Anaplan Admin Support Team, delivering connected financial planning solutions.
- Drive technical architecture and design work, including prototyping, scenario design, flow mapping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and supporting implementations.
- Evaluate new design specifications and raise quality standards; address architectural concerns.
- Translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems into sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models.
- Modify existing models for connected solutions, optimization, or to incorporate new functionality.
- Provide timely, candid feedback and progress updates to business partners and Anaplan SMEs.
- Create and run financial reports using PeopleSoft, Anaplan, and other relevant software packages on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
- Use systems strategy to develop systems requirements, design and prototype, test, train, define support procedures, and implement practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
- Apply independent judgment within defined policies and procedures; lead a small team to achieve outcomes and model value-add, sustainable solution delivery.
- Contribute hands-on to the development of optimization products.
- Develop model documentation and ensure adherence to company standards.
- Author, document, and maintain the associated code base and unit tests; follow industry standard coding practices.
- Lead data integration and migration solutions, including UAT testing and deployment of designed solutions.
- Proactively prioritize projects, manage customer expectations, and organize the team’s effort and effectiveness.
- Act as a source of technical expertise and mentor across development teams.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5–8 years’ experience building relevant system models.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology (requirements gathering, design, build/test, training, change management, and deployment). Agile methodology preferable.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- 1+ years Anaplan experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and execute multiple responsibilities simultaneously with a “roll-up your sleeves” approach.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, MIS, or Computer Science.
Preferred Qualifications
- Domain expertise in planning and modeling in Finance.
- Passion for business analytics, modeling, and planning.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Results-oriented, motivated, self-driven.
Compensation & Benefits
- This role will also receive an annual incentive plan bonus.
- Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.
- Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law. The expected base rate for this role is between $85,000 - $135,000.
Location
Remote Anywhere in the U.S. (work completed 100% remote anywhere in the U.S.), except Hawaii or United States Territories.
Equal Opportunity
EOE – Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age/Genetic Information/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***