Job Title: Anaplan Senior Analyst, Finance Transformation Location: Remote, must be able to flex to Pacific Duration: 6 Months
Top must haves: 1. Anaplan Expertise – Proven experience building, maintaining, and enhancing Anaplan models. 2. Strong Finance Acumen – Background in FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or related finance functions. 3. Revenue Planning Experience – Experience supporting revenue-focused processes, including ACV, bookings, billings, and topline planning.
Certification: Achieved Anaplan Certified Model Builder Level 2 or above – required
Job Description:
The Senior Analyst will join our growing FP&A Solutions team to partner alongside other finance teams for the successful design, build, implementation, and maintenance of Anaplan-based solutions.
As part of the team, the ideal candidate is a team player that has experience building financial models and enjoys solving and streamlining complex business problems using Anaplan. A successful candidate enjoys detailed and challenging puzzles, thrives in an ever-changing environment, and innovates without boundaries. The ability to listen and ask inquisitive questions that improve financial business processes and solution those with business stakeholders is essential.
? Responsibilities
Translate existing business processes and problems into sophisticated multi-dimensional Anaplan models starting by building the underlying architecture, data schema, calculation methodologies, process improvements, model building and reporting, to arrive at a great user experience
Maintain existing Anaplan models. Incorporate new functionality in response to business-driven changes, develop new feature enhancements, and fix production issues to maintain accuracy and uptime, end user trust and satisfaction
Author technical documentation that explains how the model was built and why, deployment procedures and instructions for run state/administrators
Participate in the development of data integration pipelines between source systems and Anaplan by partnering with other internal organizations to design data models, APIs, or other architectural elements
Identify and remedy technical debt to ensure high model health
Monitor and validate data processing workflows to and from Anaplan
Build relationships and trust with business model owners, team members, end users, collaborating teams and stakeholders
Participate in user acceptance testing, script writing, and deployment activities
Provide hands-on training and office hours to end users to facilitate adoption of the Anaplan model
Use Anaplan model building best practices and standards established within client’s and the Anaplan Community
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of Anaplan Model Building experience
Can speak the finance language of the business, influence and advise on process optimization opportunities, and develop those improvements within a financial system
Real life experience that turned you into a subject matter expert in planning and modeling for Finance and Sales
Experience working in highly iterative software-focused work practices - Lean, Agile, Anaplan Way
You have walked-the-walk and have a strong finance, FP&A, sales planning and forecasting background with the technical chops building solutions with Excel, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, Pigment, SAP BPC, Planful, TM1 or other cloud solutions
Solving interesting problems motivates you to get to work each day. You have excellent quantitative and analytical skills, a high attention to detail and scrutiny of discrepancies that sparks conversations to develop better solutions
Flexibility and adaptability to work in a large team, small team, independently, remote and in-person
Learned how to learn. You have an undergrad degree in finance, accounting, business, or engineering or have a combination of other education and equivalent work
Excellent listening and communication skills with the ability to switch contexts between highly technical and business-focused topics quickly and easily
Actively foster an environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work
Courage to speak up with divergent views in productive ways, and inquisitively approach difficult conversations to drive solutions
You take responsibility for both good and bad results and take initiative in leading remediation, informing others of decisions and plans that affect them
Achieved Anaplan Certified Model Builder Level 2 or above
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $90.00/hr - $105.00/hr.
