Anaplan Manager

Grant Thornton; Kansas City (KS); On-site; USD 147,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton in the United States is seeking an Anaplan Manager to deliver advisory and implementation services within the Transformation Practice. You will join a driven team to help clients realize their vision and grow professionally.

You will lead full life cycle implementations, document requirements, configure applications, train users, and provide post-production support. Strong communication, leadership, and travel up to 40% are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required; Master’s degree is a plus.
• Minimum 4 years of related consulting experience serving cross-industry clients.
• Experience with 4 full life cycle implementations of Anaplan.
• Industry-recognized professional certification required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, metrics, and reports.
• Experience with application integration and back-end data connectivity.
• Exposure or training on Anaplan Applications.
• Knowledge of Anaplan Applications.
• Proven ability delivering complex and time-sensitive projects.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to lead meetings and write technical documents.
• Able to understand current state processes and define future state aligned to business objectives.
• Willingness to travel up to 40%.

Responsibilities

• Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, and build phases.
• Document business requirements, system design and transformation goals.
• Configure applications and perform iterative unit testing.
• Create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption.
• Deliver end-user training for deployment and provide post-production support.
• Identify business requirements and design future state processes.
• Aim to meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Anaplan expertise

Project leadership

Client communication

Requirements gathering

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field

Master’s degree is a plus

Tools

Anaplan Applications

Data connectivity tools

Job description

As an Anaplan Manager, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Transformation Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.
From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

• Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
• Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
• Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
• Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
• Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
• Provide post-production support
• Participate in full life cycle implementations
• Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master’s degree is a plus
• Minimum 4 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
• Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Anaplan
• Industry recognized professional certification required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
• Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
• Experience installing/configuring/implementing Anaplan Applications
• Exposure or training on Anaplan Applications
• Knowledge of Anaplan Applications
• Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
• Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
• Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%

The base salary range for this position is between $147,200 and $196,880. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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