Anaplan Senior Manager

Senior Manager role focused on Anaplan and Finance Transformation, involving end-to-end EPM engagements, stakeholder management, multi-workstream delivery, business development, and team leadership. The role leverages AI and next-gen processes for financial planning, forecasting, and analytics.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will lead end-to-end EPM engagements with Anaplan and other platforms, from strategy and roadmap through design, build, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
  2. You will manage executive stakeholder relationships, facilitate decision-making, and provide status, risk, and value realization updates to client sponsors.
  3. You will oversee multi-workstream delivery, including requirements, functional/process design (scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, and post-go-live support procedures.
  4. You will drive business development by shaping opportunities, leading pursuit teams, developing proposals, and contributing to pricing strategies.
  5. You will develop, coach, and staff high-performing teams; provide performance feedback; and support talent recruitment and retention.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 6+ years of hands-on EPM implementation experience with one or more: Anaplan, Hyperion Planning, HFM, PBCS/ePBCS, OneStream
  • 10+ years of consulting or industry experience in finance systems or finance transformation
  • 4+ years of experience leading multi-workstream teams and managing project delivery and change initiatives
  • Experience owning project or program budgets, including estimating, tracking, and variance management
  • Record of progressive responsibility, including client-facing leadership and delivery ownership
  • Ability to travel 25–50%, on average

Nice to have

  • 2+ full lifecycle Anaplan implementations (from use-case design through deployment and hypercare)
  • Experience integrating EPM solutions with ERP/data platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Snowflake) and ETL tools (e.g., Informatica)
  • One or more certifications: Anaplan Level 2 Model Builder or higher; OneStream or Oracle EPM certifications
  • 5+ years overseeing testing strategy, training development/delivery, and cutover/hypercare for EPM programs
  • Documented business development contributions (e.g., proposals, orals, solution proof-of-concepts) and account growth
  • Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS in Finance/Information Systems) or CPA

What the JD emphasized

  • Anaplan
  • Finance Transformation
  • EPM