Anaplan Senior Consultant

This role focuses on implementing and enhancing Anaplan models for enterprise planning, budgeting, and forecasting. It involves client advisory, solution configuration, data assessment, and supporting project workstreams using Anaplan and related technologies. The role is part of Deloitte's Finance Transformation offering, which leverages AI and next-gen processes to improve financial planning capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assess current-state finance processes and systems and design future-state solutions for planning, budgeting, and forecasting
  2. Build and enhance Anaplan models, including Data Hub architecture and integrations, to support scalable planning cycles
  3. Perform finance data assessments and analysis to generate insights for business and executive stakeholders
  4. Translate business requirements into technical designs, develop test plans, support user acceptance testing, and provide post-launch support
  5. Support or lead workstreams using agile delivery methods, develop client deliverables, and collaborate with Finance, Information Technology, Data, and Operations stakeholders to drive adoption and business outcomes

Skills

Required

  • Anaplan Model Builder certification (Level1 & Level 2)
  • 2+ years of experience applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, including requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment, and production support
  • 4+ years of professional experience, including 3+ years designing, building, and implementing Anaplan solutions for financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting in a consulting or corporate environment
  • Experience with Anaplan Data Hub architecture, integrations, requirements gathering, and implementation delivery
  • 3+ years of experience performing finance data analysis and delivering findings through dashboards, reports, or model outputs
  • Ability to travel 25–50%

Nice to have

  • 4+ years of consulting experience in a professional services environment or internal consulting function
  • Experience serving as an Anaplan Solution Architect, Delivery Manager, or both
  • Experience implementing enterprise financial planning processes using Anaplan and enterprise data platforms
  • Experience leading workstreams with responsibility for scope, schedule, and deliverables
  • Experience supporting proposals and requests for proposal responses
  • Experience developing presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint for executive stakeholders

What the JD emphasized

  • Anaplan Model Builder certification (Level1 & Level 2)
  • 3+ years of experience designing, building, and implementing Anaplan solutions for financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting in a consulting or corporate environment
  • Experience with Anaplan Data Hub architecture, integrations, requirements gathering, and implementation delivery