Anaplan Model Builder

Autodesk; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 12,00,000 - 18,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software company is seeking an Anaplan Model Builder to join their Finance Transformation team in Bengaluru, India. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining Anaplan solutions to enhance financial modeling. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in Anaplan, a strong finance background, and excellent communication skills. A flexible schedule is required for collaboration with teams in the United States.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Anaplan Model Building experience.
• Real-life experience in finance and sales planning.
• Strong finance, FP&A, sales forecasting background.

Responsibilities

• Translate business processes into Anaplan models.
• Maintain existing Anaplan models and develop new functionalities.
• Participate in scrum team activities and user acceptance testing.

Skills

Anaplan Model Building

Finance Language Proficiency

Quantitative and Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Undergraduate degree in finance, business, or engineering

Tools

Excel

Anaplan

Adaptive Insights

SAP BPC

Job description

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated person to join an award-winning Anaplan Center of Excellence to help shape the future of connected forecasting and planning in Finance. The Anaplan Model Builder is a key role in Autodesk’s Finance Transformation team and is responsible for the successful design, build, implementation, and maintenance of Anaplan-based solutions.

The ideal candidate is a team player that has experience building financial models and enjoys solving and streamlining complex business problems using Anaplan. A successful candidate enjoys detailed and challenging puzzles, thrives in a never-changing environment, and innovates without boundaries.

Working Hours: Requires flexibility to work evening shifts in India to accommodate collaboration and meetings with our team in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Translate existing business processes and problems into sophisticated multi-dimensional Anaplan models starting by building the underlying architecture, data schema, calculation methodologies, process improvements, model building, and reporting, to arrive at a great user experience.
• Maintain existing Anaplan models, incorporate new functionality in response to business-driven changes, develop new feature enhancements, and fix production issues to maintain accuracy and uptime, end-user trust, and satisfaction.
• Author technical documentation that explains how the model was built and why, deployment procedures, and instructions for run state/administrators.
• Participate in the development of data integration pipelines between source systems and Anaplan by partnering with other internal organizations to design data models, APIs, or other architectural elements.
• Identify and remedy technical debt to ensure high model health.
• Monitor and validate data processing workflows to and from Anaplan.
• Active participant of a scrum team, including user story definition and refinement, backlog prioritization, story estimation, sprint ceremonies (stand-up, demo, retro), and project status.
• Build relationships and trust with business model owners, team members, end-users, collaborating teams, and stakeholders.
• Participate in user acceptance testing, script writing, and deployment activities.
• Provide hands-on training and office hours to end-users to facilitate adoption of the Anaplan model.
• Use Anaplan model building best practices and standards established within Autodesk and the Anaplan Community.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of Anaplan Model Building experience.
• Can speak the finance language of the business, influence and advise on process optimization opportunities, and develop those improvements in Anaplan.
• Real-life experience that turned you into a subject matter expert in planning and modeling for Finance and Sales.
• Experience working in highly iterative software-focused work practices - Lean, Agile, Anaplan Way.
• You have walked-the-walk and have a strong finance, FP&A, sales planning, and forecasting background with the technical chops building solutions with Excel, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, SAP BPC, Planful, TM1, or other cloud solutions.
• Solving interesting problems motivates you to get to work each day. You have excellent quantitative and analytical skills, a high attention to detail, and scrutiny of discrepancies that sparks conversations to develop better solutions.
• Adaptability to work in a large team, small team, independently, remote, and in-person.
• Hungry to learn, adopt, and contribute to the Anaplan community.
• Learned how to learn. You have an undergrad degree in finance, business, or engineering or have a combination of other education and equivalent work.
• Excellent listening and communication skills with the ability to switch contexts between highly technical and business-focused topics quickly and easily.
• Actively foster an environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work.
• Courage to speak up with divergent views in productive ways, and inquisitively approach difficult conversations to drive solutions.
• You take responsibility for both good and bad results and take initiative in leading remediation, informing others of decisions and plans that affect them.
• Achieved Anaplan Certified Model Builder Level 2 or above.

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