Application Development Specialist

Summary

Join Anaplan as a Delivery Advisor within the Finance Center of Excellence and play a pivotal role in ensuring consistent, scalable delivery of Finance Applications. You will focus on technical excellence, from implementation to deployment, combining Anaplan platform expertise with finance process knowledge and project management skills. Key activities include defining implementation standards, creating documentation, enabling internal/external teams, providing architectural guidance, and measuring implementation metrics. This role requires strong collaboration, deep understanding of finance use cases and the Anaplan platform, and experience with Professional Services best practices. You will partner with various teams, empower partners, support sales opportunities, and act as a trusted advisor to customers. Success will be measured by enablement adoption, presentation frequency, and Finance Application sales value.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Anaplan’s platform and its application to solve complex business challenges
• Proven experience as an Application Architect and as a technical expert in the Anaplan platform and implementation methodologies
• Strong understanding of Anaplan functionalities, including model building, UX dashboard creation, and data required processes and best practices, and the key stakeholders and decision-makers integration
• Deep expertise in financial planning and analysis, and implementing performance management, planning and reporting solutions – ideally including experience with Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting
• Understanding of product management, GTM operations and enablement
• Excellent project management, communication, facilitation, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a demonstrated ability in presenting compelling content, performing product demonstrations, leading workshops, and developing enablement programs
• A results-driven mindset, able to collaborate across teams, with a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact

Responsibilities

• Partner with Anaplan’s Product Management, Professional Services, and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure seamless integration of Finance Applications into Anaplan’s GTM and delivery motion
• Serve as the subject matter and technical expert for Finance Applications, guiding effective implementation strategies
• Develop and oversee technical enablement programs, including training, guides, comprehensive technical documentation for internal and partner use. Drive ecosystem enablement by developing scalable knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Ensure Finance Applications demos and content are clearly aligned with Anaplan technical and implementation standards
• Uphold and enhance implementation standards to maintain Anaplan’s brand integrity
• Work with the Finance Center of Excellence application builders and architects to provide technical guidance and enforce standards for Finance Applications, including ensuring best practices, integration of new product features, and realizing Anaplan’s Connected Planning vision
• Empower partners through training, advisory and supporting services, scaling Anaplan's service delivery capacity and driving implementation success, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
• Support key and late-stage sales opportunities as a technical, process and architectural expert, guiding customers on best practices for implementing Finance Application. Deliver actionable feedback from the field to the Product Team to improve our applications
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, including presenting Anaplan’s Finance Applications technical and implementation vision, and demonstrate the solutions at key internal and external events

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Anaplan APIs, connectors, and scripting languages
• An Anaplan certification

Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $144,000 — $207,000 USD
• #LI-REMOTE