Model Builder - Finance

Overview

Principal Application Architect - Finance Applications role plan is focused on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Our Winning Culture emphasizes diversity of thought, ambitious goals, and celebrating wins. Anaplan serves customers including Fortune 50 companies such as Coca-Cola, Linked In, Adobe, LVMH, and Bayer.

Anaplan is solving challenging Finance challenges by supporting financial planning, analysis, consolidation, and reporting. Our Finance Applications and embedded Anaplan Intelligence platform provide real-time insights and enable smarter, data-driven decisions that optimize performance and decision-making.

Within Anaplan's Finance and Workforce Center of Excellence as a Principal Application Architect, you will build out-of-the-box and extendable applications on the Anaplan platform for planning, forecasting, and reporting use cases across industries, including Revenue, Cost of Sales and Margin, Operating Expense, Capital, Profitability, Financial Statements, and Strategic Finance Planning. You will deliver applications based on requirements from our Application Solutions Architects and Finance Product Management teams, and collaborate with GTM and Professional Services teams to ensure they fully leverage the capabilities of the applications.

This role requires collaboration, deep Finance use-case understanding, platform expertise, and attention to detail and deadlines.

• Build and deliver Finance Applications by leveraging the Anaplan platform components (model and UX building, user management, data integration, reporting, PlanIQ, etc.) by:
• • Partnering with Finance Product Management to understand and document requirements, updating as required.
  • Designing and building the application and UX to meet requirements, working with Solution Architects when needs are complex.
  • Ensuring the user experience meets UX standards, is intuitive, and easy to use.
  • Participating in quality assurance, updating and refining as needed through successful delivery.
  • Upgrading applications with new Anaplan platform capabilities and features based on feedback from prospects, customers, and partners.
• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services, and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Finance COE delivers:
• • Compelling conceptual demos and all supporting content, including training and guides.
  • Full configuration and implementation of content, documentation, and best practices for Anaplan's delivery Teams.
  • Ongoing Finance Application improvements and optimizations.
• Act as a trusted internal and external knowledge expert for your Finance Applications.
• Potentially support Sales and Customer Success with prospect and customer opportunities and escalations, including enabling Anaplan partners.

• Meet the new release and upgrade project deadlines for Finance Applications.
• Adoption and successful deployment of Finance Applications from enablement by Anaplan Teams through to Customer implementations.

• 3+ years of diverse experience as an Anaplan Application Architect, deploying Finance use cases. At least Level 3 Certification.
• Able to bring an engineering discipline to Anaplan applications - ensuring scalability, configurable functionality, and the ability to manage your application build activities through to completion and delivery.
• Ideal but not required:
• • Experience with some of the broader facets of the Anaplan platform (PlanIQ, Workflow, Polaris, etc).
  • Experience with Financial Close, Consolidation, and Reporting.
  • Understanding of product management, GTM operations, and enablement.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a results-driven perspective, ability to collaborate across teams, and a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science, Business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

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