Remote Solution Architect

Summary

Join Planful as a Solution Architect, DACH, and lead customer implementation projects, assuming responsibility for application design and providing oversight to the team. The successful candidate must have strong technical aptitude, passion for working with customers, and ability to travel at least 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Must be based out of Germany
• 5+ years of Accounting or FP&A experience focusing on financial reporting and budgeting and /or close management as well as experience dealing with multi-currency environments
• Hands-on experience with financial planning, close management, reporting and analysis
• Advanced Excel skills are essential
• Experience with enterprise planning systems
• Executive presence to interact with senior-level executives
• Customer-centric with a strong sense of urgency for customer care
• Consultative style
• Strong project management, problem-solving skills and analytical skills
• Extremely organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple concurrent customer implementations
• Function as the project functional/technical lead and lead a team of consultants and customer staff in the delivery of a value added solution to the customer
• Function as a mentor to the Planful Professional Services delivery team for solutioning best practice of large, complex projects to account for overarching Planful architecture, performance and scalability, and change management impacts
• Follow Planful’s Agile Deployment Approach to lead discovery workshops, prototype and validate solutions with our customers to develop a solid solution supporting customer requirements
• Proven architecture experience in defining, designing and implementing integrated architectures for complex planning, reporting and analytic solutions
• Deep experience as a solution architect in the Finance functional vertical. 2-3 other functional competencies are a plus (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Distribution, Professional Services)
• Working knowledge of process architecture to know how to design technology/data architectures to support ‘to-be’ process designs
• Change management experience to support the deployment and adoption activities of solutions
• Be cognizant of project economics and metrics to deliver on-time and on budget projects
• Be a trusted adviser and subject matter expert to customers in areas such as change management, business process design and redesign, process improvements and analytics
• Work with Planful’s Sales team to sell success, share customer use cases at customer meetings, selling services, leading scoping discussions and developing/presenting services proposals
• Lean on a strong accounting and or finance background as well as experience implementing and managing planning and consolidation applications
• Learn the Planful product and deployment best practice
• Contribute to and improve the Services team’s best practice methodology and library

Benefits

• 2 Volunteer days
• Birthday PTO
• Quarterly company Wellness Days
• 3 months supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your Maternity/Paternity leave
• Annual Planful Palooza, our in-person, company-wide culture kickoff held in cities like San Diego, Denver, and most recently - Palm Desert, California!
• Team-specific offsites in cities like New York, Sonoma, or our brand new HQ based in downtown San Francisco
• Office hubs in San Francisco, Toronto, and London. We also offer benefits such as home office setup, and monthly wifi and cell phone reimbursements for all employees, in-office or remote
• Company-wide Mentorship program with Executive sponsorship of CFO and Manager-specific monthly training programs
• Employee Resource Groups such as Women of Planful, Parents of Planful, and many more. We encourage our teammates to bring their authentic selves to the team, and have full support in creating new ERGs & communities along the way