Principal Financial Systems Analyst - Anaplan

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

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Job ID: 6742

Location: Bellevue, WA, US, 98004 Bothell, WA, US, 98011 Seattle, WA, US, 98108 Seattle, WA, US, 98103 Kent, WA, US, 98032 Snoqualmie, WA, US, 98065

Remote and Hybrid Work Opportunities: Hybrid (WA Based)

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

PSE'sFinancial Planning & Analysisteam is looking for qualified candidates to fill an openPrincipal Financial Systems Analyst - Anaplan position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Washington's largest energy company, proudly serves more than 1.2 million electric customers and nearly 900,000 natural gas customers. As part of a significant finance and budget transformation, PSE is implementing Anaplan and S/4 HANA to modernize systems and processes that support more than $5billion in annual revenue.

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic finance professional to play a pivotal role in this transformation. In this position, you will serve as a primary representative for the FP&A team during the implementation of Anaplan. This role functions as a key business partner ensuring alignment between finance requirements and system capabilities, and will take the lead in building and managing the Anaplan Center of Excellence, establishing best practices, governance, and long-term value for the enterprise. You will be deeply involved, partnering across the organization as Anaplan is implemented over approximately one year and S/4 HANA continues across multiple years.

The ideal candidate for this role has expertise with Anaplan along with experience with large-scale system implementations or migrations. They will also be a subject matter expert in enterprise wide budgeting best practices.

Once Anaplan has been implemented across the organization, this analyst will drive process innovation through system optimization and emerging AI technologies. They will act as the primary liaison for technical issue identification, resolution, and system enhancements in the Anaplan environment.

All PSE employees are expected to uphold the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE's operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities and promote and support a culture of total safety. Additionally, employees need to demonstrate commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. All duties are to be performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.

Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE's operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety.

Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct.

Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.

Job 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.