Manager, FP&A Systems - Anaplan

Overview

The Finance team aims to be a trusted and collaborative partner to various business and functional teams by providing financial expertise, insights, and specialist advice to optimize decision-making, deliver value, and implement governance and controls to mitigate risk.

The FP&A Systems and Analytics team supports the strategic vision of becoming a digitally driven finance function by delivering forward-looking insights, agile service, and transparent financial management. This team enables better and faster decision-making through insight and transparency and drives new digitally enabled ways of working.

This role focuses primarily on managing the cloud-based financial planning tool, Anaplan. The ideal candidate will have significant hands-on experience building and supporting complex financial planning models on the Anaplan platform. The position involves supporting the execution of the Anaplan roadmap by recommending and implementing platform enhancements to meet business needs and improve processes. This is an internal customer-facing role requiring interaction with leadership within FP&A and other functions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements for enhancements or new Anaplan models supporting FP&A use cases
• Design, build, test, and deploy new features to complex Anaplan models following best practices
• Develop user-friendly experiences using Anaplan UX Apps, Pages, and classic dashboards
• Identify opportunities to leverage Anaplan for process automation, reducing time to insight, and improving the planning experience
• Configure and maintain Anaplan lists, modules, dashboards, actions, and other model settings
• Stay current with Anaplan best practices and new features, ensuring models are built consistently and organized
• Work with IT to develop data integrations between Anaplan and source systems
• Create user guides, instructional videos, and conduct live training to ensure user success
• Provide technical and functional support to end-users
• Contribute to expanding the connected planning environment

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field
• 4-6 years of experience building Anaplan models, particularly for FP&A use cases
• Level 2 Anaplan Model Builder certification required; Level 3 Model Builder, Certified Solution Architect, or Master Anaplanner certification preferred
• Experience with Polaris, Workflow, and Anaplan Data Orchestrator (ADO)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics to non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to build and maintain complex data models from concept through development
• Innovative problem-solving skills and ability to think outside the box
• Ability to modify existing models to add new functionality while maintaining model integrity
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment managing multiple projects
• Solid understanding of finance and accounting concepts
• Willingness to learn new technologies and business functions

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated base salary range: $120,000 - $160,000 USD, dependent on location, qualifications, and experience
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability
• Sleep care management program
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition assistance
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 11 paid holidays plus 3 floating days
• Primary caregiver leave of 14 weeks and secondary caregiver leave of 2 weeks for new family members

Location

This is a remote position. Candidates may need to be based in or available to work within specific locations or time zones.