Senior Anaplan Transformation Lead

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

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.