Senior Anaplan Analyst – FP&A & Financial Planning

Remote opportunity, Candidate needs to flexible working in pacific time zone, 40 hrs/week Top 3 experience: • Anaplan Expertise – Proven experience building, maintaining, and enhancing Anaplan models. • Strong Finance Acumen – Background in FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or related finance functions. • Revenue Planning Experience – Supporting revenue-focused processes, including ACV, bookings, billings, and topline planning. Summary: 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 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. • 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. • Courage to speak up with divergent views in productive ways, and inquisitively approach difficult conversations to drive solutions. • Responsibility for both good and bad results and take initiative in leading remediation, informing others of decisions and plans that affect them. Minimum Education Required: Undergrad degree in finance, accounting, business, or engineering or have a combination of other education and equivalent work. Certification: Achieved Anaplan Certified Model Builder Level 2 or above - required