Senior Manager, IT Finance Projects

Job Overview

A Senior Manager of the IT Finance - Projects will lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise-wide Anaplan models and oversee the Workday Professional Services Automation (PSA), serving as the subject matter expert for financial planning (FP&A) transformation. This role oversees model optimization, data integration, and user adoption.

• Strategy & Governance:
  Establish, maintain, and enforce best practices for Anaplan models, ensuring adherence to governance frameworks and the "Anaplan Way" methodology.
• Project Financial Tracking Transformation:
  Be the lead IT partner on the technology transformation to transition to our align way of tracking project work in Workday.
• Solution Architecture & Build:
  Oversee the design and development of complex Anaplan models, and Workday project module
• Model Development & Architecture:
  Lead the design, building, and enhancement of complex, connected Anaplan models for forecasting, budgeting, and planning.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Collaborate with finance, IT, and business partners to translate business requirements into functional Anaplan technical specs. Oversee the requirements for the Workday PSA Module.
• System Maintenance & Support:
  Oversee model performance, data integration, user acceptance testing (UAT), and root-cause analysis for system issues.
• Leadership & Training:
  Mentor, coach, and manage a team of developers/analysts while facilitating training for end-users, and a consultant-based support team.
• Process Improvement:
  Identify opportunities for automation and optimization within the FP&A landscape.

• Proven experience in IT business consulting (generally gained over 7+ years), including 2 years' hands-on experience in Anaplan model maintenance for finance/FP&A.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Deep knowledge of Anaplan architecture, data modeling, and user experience (UX) design.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in finance, IT, or related field.
• Proven leadership of large, cross-functional Anaplan programs (multi-model ecosystems, complex integrations, ALM) and/or Workday PSA module
• Strong grasp of financial processes: budgeting/forecasting, close-to-forecast alignment, management reporting, cost allocations, scenario modeling.
• Skills:
  
  Strong communication skills to interact with executive-level stakeholders.

• Experience in complex, global process transformations.
• Understanding of financial process taxonomy (e.g., Capital Planning, Workforce Planning).
• Ability to lead, mentor, and build high-performing teams.
• Anaplan Solution Architect or Master Ana planner certification.
• Experience with driver-based planning, zero-based budgeting, and advanced scenario/sensitivity analysis.
• Background with data warehousing (Snowflake/Redshift/Databricks), iPaaS/ETL (Informatica, Mule Soft, Boomi, Fivetran), and BI (Power BI/Tableau).
• Exposure to SOX/compliance in financial systems, and ITGC controls.
• People leadership of hybrid teams (FTE + SI/contractors) across time zones.

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