Director, Financial Systems (anaplan)

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Finance

Lead and evolve the Anaplan financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function at Databricks, focusing on strategic ownership, optimization, and integration with the Databricks platform. This role involves leading a team, defining system roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with business needs and IT standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide end to end ownership of the Anaplan platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and alignment with business needs
  2. Partner across FP&A to define system roadmaps and lead the successful delivery of key initiatives
  3. Collaborate with the Sales Operations Anaplan team to ensure alignment and consistency across FP&A and Sales Operations models
  4. Identify and implement opportunities to standardize processes, improve efficiency, and increase automation within Anaplan
  5. Work closely with the Finance Data & Strategy team to develop and execute a strategy for integrating Anaplan with the Databricks platform, enabling next generation analytics

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering or Management Information Systems
  • 10+ years of experience in Finance / Financial Systems roles, preferably Anaplan
  • Experience defining systems strategy
  • Experience developing business and technical requirements
  • Experience designing and prototyping
  • Experience testing
  • Experience training
  • Experience deployment
  • Experience support procedures for Anaplan
  • Functional experience with core finance processes (planning, budgeting, forecasting, costing)
  • Experience assessing and supporting finance system implementations
  • Strong people leadership skills, including experience coaching and developing high performing teams
  • Intellectual curiosity and the ability to solve problems independently
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple objectives in a fast-paced environment while meeting deadlines

Nice to have

  • Anaplan Certified Solutions Architect or Certified Master Anaplanner

What the JD emphasized

  • Anaplan Certified Solutions Architect or Certified Master Anaplanner, a plus