Senior Anaplan Model Builder (LvL 3 Certified)

abrdn Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aberdeen's Finance Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office and is responsible for supporting and evolving the organisation's core finance systems. We are seeking a Senior Anaplan Model Builder to design, build and optimise enterprise-scale Anaplan solutions across key finance planning processes.

You will translate business requirements into robust models, supporting integrations and driving continuous improvement across the finance systems landscape.

Qualifications

• Anaplan Level 3 Model Builder certification with proven experience delivering complex enterprise-scale models.
• Strong understanding of DISCO, PLANS, model optimisation, scalability and sparsity management.
• Experience across finance planning processes including budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning and reporting.
• Knowledge of integrations, data hubs, APIs, CloudWorks, governance controls and change management.
• Ability to work effectively with Finance and Technology stakeholders while producing high-quality documentation and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise Anaplan models for budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders, Product Owners and SMEs to translate requirements.
• Deliver and support integrations using data hubs, APIs and CloudWorks with governance controls.
• Lead testing, issue resolution, release management and financial reconciliation across the Anaplan estate.
• Provide technical assurance, documentation and mentoring to promote best practice.

Skills

Anaplan Level 3

Model optimisation

Finance planning

Integrations & APIs

Mentoring others

Job description

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs:

• Interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.


• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.


• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

Aberdeen's Finance Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office andis responsible forsupporting and evolving theorganisation'score finance systems. The team manages strategic platforms including Anaplan, Oracle Financials, Oracle ERPCloudand Enterprise Performance Management solutions. Working closely with Finance and Technology stakeholders, the team delivers scalable,secureand efficient solutions that support business decision-making and help enable our clients to be better investors.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Anaplan Model Builder to design, build andoptimiseenterprise-scale Anaplan solutions across key finance planning processes. You will play a critical role in translating business requirements into robust models, supportingintegrationsand driving continuous improvement across the finance systems landscape. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a significant technology roadmap while mentoring colleagues and shaping best practice. The role offers exposure to strategic cloud technologies and complex transformation initiatives, helping you invest in your tomorrow while developing your technical and stakeholder management capabilities. This is a permanent role with blended working pattern in Edinburgh.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build andoptimiseAnaplan models supporting budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, scenariomodellingand management reporting.


• Partner with Finance stakeholders, ProductOwnersand SMEs to translate requirements into scalable solutions.


• Deliver and support integrations using data hubs, APIs, CloudWorks and related technologies withappropriate governancecontrols.


• Lead testing, issue resolution, releasemanagementand financial reconciliation activities across the Anaplan estate.


• Provide technical assurance,documentationand mentoring to promote best practice and team capability.

About the Candidate

• Essential: Anaplan Level 3 Model Builder certification with proven experience delivering complex enterprise-scale Anaplan models.


• Essential: Strong understanding of DISCO, PLANS, modeloptimisation, scalability, sparsitymanagementand maintainability principles.


• Essential: Experience across finance planning processes including budgeting, forecasting, workforceplanningand reporting.


• Essential: Knowledge of integrations, data hubs, APIs, CloudWorks, governance controls and change management practices.


• Essential: Ability to work effectively with Finance and Technology stakeholders while producing high-quality documentation and mentoring others.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, pleasenotify usby completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements - for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability - please let us know and we'll be happy to help.

We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.