Senior Anaplan Specialist

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Ivy Chimneys; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Anaplan Specialist to join our Finance Enterprise Planning Systems team. You will lead the global financial planning infrastructure, delivering new functionality and maintaining critical models with a customer-centric mindset.

You'll automate data flows, integrate Anaplan with Workday, BigQuery, and other enterprise architectures, train users, govern models, and partner with cross-functional finance and data squads to keep planning robust and agile.

Qualifications

• Valid Anaplan Solution Architect or Master Anaplanner certification.
• Proven FP&A implementations experience across complex lifecycles.
• Strong planning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead rollout of enterprise-wide Anaplan features and finance initiatives.
• Develop and maintain robust data flows and model governance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional finance and data squads to drive excellence.

Skills

Anaplan

FP&A

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Certification: Anaplan Solution Architect or Master Anaplanner

Tools

Polaris

Anaplan Workflows

Workday

OneStream

Google BigQuery

GCS

Job description

Senior Anaplan Specialist

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

Join our Finance department's Enterprise Planning Systems team as a Senior Anaplan Specialist, where you will lead by driving our global financial planning infrastructure forward. In this role, you will champion a customer-centric approach to ensure our systems evolve alongside the needs of our business partners. You will deliver new system functionality and manage critical financial models through high-impact projects. Embracing our value of care, you will cultivate deep technical collaboration across a talented, supportive team.

Through continuous model enhancement and effective stakeholder empowerment, you will leverage teamwork to deliver seamless, efficient processes that keep our global planning robust and agile. These are some of the key components to the position:

• Contribute to the team's long-term vision while aiming high to lead the execution of our enterprise-wide system strategy.
• Continuously improve, extend, and maintain our Anaplan models, driving excellence across all core financial planning modules.
• Plan and execute the successful rollout of cutting-edge Anaplan features and critical Finance system initiatives.
• Set up, automate, and manage robust data flows and integrations connecting Anaplan with other key enterprise architectures.
• Develop and uphold strict team standards and best practices for highly effective model building and system governance.
• Facilitate engaging user training sessions and manage user queries with a focus on simplicity and process efficiency.

What will you bring to the team?

• Valid Anaplan Solution Architect or Master Anaplanner certification.
• Proven track record in FP&A implementations, showing how you stay committed to achieving goals across complex project lifecycles.
• Strong planning, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the team aim higher to drive excellence.
• Ability to develop an understanding of our internal and external partners to confidently navigate senior stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to simplify complex system structures and create clear documentation.
• A collaborative mindset to work independently and seamlessly alongside cross-functional finance and data squads.
• Technical familiarity with Polaris and Anaplan Workflows is preferred.
• Functional knowledge of enterprise systems such as Workday, OneStream, Google BigQuery, and GCS is preferred.
• Deep dedication to business integrity, helping us act responsibly while making a lasting impact on our infrastructure.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isn't just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable - our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers' loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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