Anaplan Model Builder

Attentive Attentive · Enterprise · United States · Finance

This role focuses on building and optimizing Anaplan applications for financial planning and reporting within a corporate FP&A team. It involves developing and maintaining Anaplan models, supporting data integrations, driving user adoption through training, and enabling executive reporting. The role requires strong financial modeling skills and experience with Anaplan, with a focus on improving existing systems and automating processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support Anaplan Application Delivery: Develop and maintain Anaplan applications across Finance, Go-To-Market, and HR from end-to-end, including: building user experience pages, building or enhancing back-end models, supporting user acceptance testing, coordinating deployment, and providing post go-live maintenance and support.
  2. Build as a Team: Leverage best practices for Anaplan development work, align with shared development guidelines and quality standards, and document work to enable seamless development across the team.
  3. Power Planning with Data: Support and monitor data integrations between Attentive source systems and our Anaplan tool, ensuring data is accurate, complete, and timely. Proactively identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and strengthen data flows.
  4. Drive User Adoption: Develop training materials and enablement assets, and lead hands-on training for end users to support user adoption of new features and enhancements.
  5. Enable Executive Reporting: Leverage Attentive’s Anaplan environment to empower Finance team members to easily develop and maintain recurring reporting outputs including executive performance decks, monthly close materials, Board reporting, and metrics reviews.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Financial Systems, Investment Banking, Strategy Consulting, or Business Intelligence
  • 1+ years actively developing Anaplan applications and planning models
  • Advanced proficiency using Excel and Google Sheet for financial modeling, reporting, and analysis
  • Experience mining and analyzing data to support Anaplan development, reporting, and business insights efforts
  • Ability to work in a high growth and fast-paced environment
  • Excellent written and visual communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Anaplan Solution Architect certification or higher
  • Experience with alternative EPM tools (Pigment, OneStream, Adaptive, etc.)
  • Experience using Looker, Snowflake, SQL, and Python
  • Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, ADP Workforce Now, Greenhouse, Crunchr, Looker, and Snowflake
  • Strategic Thinking

What the JD emphasized

  • Anaplan model builder
  • actively developing Anaplan applications
  • actively certified Anaplan Solution Architect or higher
  • financial modeling expert
  • advanced proficiency using Excel and Google Sheet
  • Experience mining and analyzing data
  • building and implementing scalable EPM solutions
  • Strong Communicator & Presenter
  • Ability to comfortably present complex concepts to team members and internal stakeholders in a simple and concise manner to drive alignment is critical.