Anaplan is solving the most demanding challenges for finance teams by supporting financial planning, analysis, consolidation, and reporting. We have always had world-class flexibility and user adoption. Still, with our out-of-the-box Finance Applications and embedded Anaplan Intelligence platform, we are delivering more value than ever, faster. Our solutions drive some of the world's largest companies, provide real-time insights, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions that optimize performance and improve decision-making.

Within Anaplan's Finance and Workforce Center of Excellence as an Application Builder, 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.

As an Application Builder, you will be responsible for delivering applications based on requirements from our Application Solutions Architects and Finance Product Management teams. Additionally, this role will collaborate with our GTM and Professional Services teams to ensure they fully leverage the capabilities of the applications.

This role combines excellent collaboration skills, a deep understanding of Finance use cases, the Anaplan platform, Model Builder expertise, an innovative mindset, and strong attention to detail and deadlines.

Your Impact

• Build and deliver Finance Applications by leveraging the suite of Anaplan platform components (including model and UX building, user management, data integration, reporting, PlanIQ, etc.) by:
  
  
  
  • Partnering with Finance Product Management to ensure application requirements are understood and documented, updating as required.
  
  
  • Designing and building the application and UX to meet requirements, working with Solution Architects where the requirements are complex
  
  
  • Ensuring the user experience developed meets UX standards, is intuitive, and is easy to use.
  
  
  • Participating in quality assurance, updating, and refining as needed through successful delivery.
  
  
  • Upgrading applications with new Anaplan platform capabilities and features, as driven by prospects, customers, and partner feedback.
  
  
  
  


• 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.

Key Metrics

• 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.

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years of diverse experience as an Anaplan Model Builder, 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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