Anaplan Developer - Alivia Group

Our client is looking for a Principal Consultant - Anaplan Developer to join their team.

Direct Hire - Remote

As a Senior Consultant in Connected Planning unit you will be leading multiple projects in a fast-paced team delivering solutions in Anaplan for our Fortune 500 customers as per the customer requirements. You will leverage your formal education in the relevant field and your professional experience to apply professional concepts to work on targeted problems and tasks. You will follow standard practices and procedures applicable in your area of work to complete your task/deliverable with high quality under limited supervision.

Your passion for conceptualizing, designing and building models and your ability to ask the right questions, apply analytical skills, technical skills and reliably complete your deliverable with high quality. Your demonstrated ability to consistently achieve this while continuing to improve your knowledge and skills will define success for your role.

The primary responsibilities include:

• 1) Understand clients business planning & performance management processes and related business requirements
• 2) Conceive and develop Proof of Concept POC models efficiently to provide pursuit support and establish credibility of Anaplan platform flexibility with the customers
• 3) Design effectively & efficiently to cover processes & requirements into detailed blueprint: enterprise models with associated modules, lists / line items, and calculations as supported by multi-dimensional Anaplan platform
• 4) Translate design into development plan / timeline and development effort to generate detailed staffing plans & project schedules through sprint cycles
• 5) Manage / support several concurrent customer threads across pursuit and implementation streams. Ability to self-manage time across competing priorities for optimal results.
• 6) Guide and mentor team members throughout the implementation process
• 7) Strong expertise and deep understanding of multi-dimensional modelling
• 8) Expert skills of Excel spreadsheet modelling, macros, pivot tables, formulas, charts, etc.
• 9) Ability to translate current customer spreadsheet models to effective and efficient Anaplan model designs. Design ability to translate complex excel models into scalable (low sparsity) multi-dimensional Anaplan models.
• 10) Strong client facing skills and a successful track record of engagement management
• 11) Subject matter expertise in Financial Planning & Analysis FP&A / Enterprise Performance Management EPM, Sales Performance Management (Quota / Territory Planning, Incentive Compensation Management), or Sales & Operations Planning S&OP / Integrated Business Planning IBP domains.
• 12) Strong understanding of data/integration both inbound as well as outbound with customer source systems (ERP, CRM, APS, etc.). Experience with standard connectors like MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, Anaplan APIs highly desired.
• 13) Excellent communication and soft skills. Strong client facing skills and a successful track record of engagement management.
• 14) Familiarity with Anaplan Agile methodology.
• 15) Lead a team of 5-15 members and manage the deliveries on time

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree ( Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics)

relevant experience

experience of successfully implementing Anaplan solutions as Solution Architect or Model Builder on 3 or more Anaplan implementation projects

Anaplan Hands-On Model building experience

Advanced Excel knowledge

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of successfully implementing Anaplan solutions as Model Builder on 3 or more Anaplan implementation projects
• consulting/implementation prior experience with on premise systems such as SAP BPC, IBM Cognos TM1, Oracle Hyperion etc.
• Delivered projects for large multi-national companies in an Analytical environment.