Principal Anaplan FP&A Leader - Hybrid WA

Puget Sound Energy; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Puget Sound Energy is seeking a Principal Financial Systems Analyst to lead the Anaplan implementation within FP&A. You will partner across Finance and IT, build the Anaplan Center of Excellence, and shape governance for budgeting and reporting, alignment with S/4 HANA, and enterprise-wide financial processes.

The senior finance professional will drive process improvements, oversee data integrity between Anaplan and S/4 HANA, and help deliver value across the organization during a multi-year

Qualifications

• Experience implementing Anaplan and large-scale system migrations.
• Strong FP&A and budgeting expertise.
• Ability to partner across Finance, IT, and business units.

Responsibilities

• Serve as FP&A's primary business representative and subject matter expert for the implementation and ongoing optimization of Anaplan.
• Lead FP&A requirements, process design, testing, validation, deployment, and stabilization activities associated with Anaplan and related finance transformation initiatives.
• Provide FP&A leadership and expertise to the S/4 HANA implementation, ensuring alignment across financial planning, actuals, master data, reporting, and system integrations.
• Translate enterprise budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and management reporting requirements into scalable system and process solutions.
• Lead the establishment and ongoing operation of the Anaplan Center of Excellence, including governance, model standards, documentation, change management, access, testing, and release practices.
• Serve as finance product owner for Anaplan and maintain a strategic roadmap of system capabilities, enhancements, and process improvements.
• Establish consistent enterprise planning methodologies, business rules, assumptions, workflows, data definitions, and governance standards.
• Partner across Finance, IT, Accounting, business units, and implementation partners to resolve design decisions, integration issues, and business requirements.
• Establish data validation and reconciliation processes to ensure the completeness and accuracy of information flowing between Anaplan, S/4 HANA, and other enterprise systems.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and automate FP&A processes, reduce manual effort, improve controls, and increase the quality and timeliness of financial insights.
• Lead post-implementation system optimization, issue resolution, enhancement prioritization, and continuous improvement of the Anaplan environment.

Skills

Anaplan

FP&A

Financial modeling

Tools

Anaplan

S/4 HANA

Excel

Job description

Puget Sound Energy is seeking a Principal Financial Systems Analyst to lead the Anaplan implementation within FP&A. You will partner across Finance and IT, build the Anaplan Center of Excellence, and shape governance for budgeting and reporting, alignment with S/4 HANA, and enterprise-wide financial processes.

The senior finance professional will drive process improvements, oversee data integrity between Anaplan and S/4 HANA, and help deliver value across the organization during a multi-year