Senior Application Architect

Summary

Join Anaplan's Finance and Workforce Center of Excellence as a Senior Application Architect! Build and deliver out-of-the-box and extendable Anaplan applications for planning, forecasting, and reporting across various finance use cases. Collaborate with product managers to define requirements, design applications, and ensure a seamless user experience. Work with model builders to bring applications to life and partner with other teams for successful delivery and ongoing optimization. Leverage your expertise in the Anaplan platform and finance to become a trusted knowledge expert. Meet project deadlines and contribute to the successful adoption and deployment of Finance Applications. This role requires strong collaboration, finance expertise, and Anaplan platform knowledge.

Requirements

• 5+ years of diverse experience as an Anaplan Model Builder, deploying Finance use cases. At least Level 3 Certification. Master Anaplanner preferred
• 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
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Business, or a related field

Responsibilities

• 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.)
• Create and define detailed application requirements with Finance Product Management. Translate business requirements to technical terminology to ensure the product is built to follow best practices
• Work with complex requirements to design and build the application and UX to meet agreed upon standards
• Ensure the user experience developed meets UX standards, is intuitive, and easy to use
• Participate in quality assurance, updating and refining as needed, through successful delivery. Guide performance testing and tuning to ensure the application can scale
• Upgrade 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
• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Finance COE delivers: Full configuration and implementation content, documentation, and best practices to Anaplan’s delivery Teams
• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Finance COE delivers: 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with some of the wider facets of the Anaplan platform (PlanIQ, Optimizer, ADO, Workflow and 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, able to collaborate across teams, with a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact
• Advanced degree

Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $177,000 — $255,000 USD
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