Anaplan Senior Associate: Transform & Implement Lead

Grant Thornton; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking an Anaplan Sr. Associate to deliver advisory and implementation services in the Transformation Practice. You will work with a team to plan, design, build, train, and support client deployments of Anaplan across industries.

The role requires strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with travel up to 40%. Hybrid in-person collaboration is expected, including client-site work three days per week in Phoenix, AZ.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master’s is a plus.
• 3+ years of related work experience in a consulting practice servicing cross-industry clients at a national level.
• Minimum of 2 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%.

Responsibilities

• Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, and build phases.
• Document business requirements, system design and transformational goals.
• Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing.
• 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 identifying business requirements, functional design, process design, prototyping, testing, and training.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Written & verbal communication

Leadership

Project management

Problem solving

Education

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

Master’s degree

Tools

Anaplan

Anaplan Applications

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking an Anaplan Sr. Associate to deliver advisory and implementation services in the Transformation Practice. You will work with a team to plan, design, build, train, and support client deployments of Anaplan across industries.

The role requires strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with travel up to 40%. Hybrid in-person collaboration is expected, including client-site work three days per week in Phoenix, AZ.