Solution Architect (Anaplan Model Building)

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

Think big and act bold by expressing your authentic best self! Anaplan is looking for a tenacious Solution Architect to join our Anaplan on Anaplan COE team. Get involved in a highly visible, large-scale SaaS cloud company.

Your Impact

As a solution architect, you are primarily responsible for the successful delivery of Anaplan solutions.

You will be required to model sophisticated business problems, collaborate to search for hard-to-find answers, and effectively uncover insights for our Business Partners. Strong analytics skills, resourcefulness, and the capacity to adapt to a scaling organization will help you be successful. Being able to operate independently and lead in a dynamic environment is key to this role.

You will:

· Lead Anaplan model development and serve as the architectural SME for large-scale connected planning solutions

· Translate existing spreadsheets and business problems into sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models

· Modify existing models as part of a connected solution, optimization, or to incorporate new functionality

· Provide significant feedback and progress updates promptly to the Business Partner and team

· Set up standard processes and documentation for Anaplan models

· Participate in data integration and migration solutions

· Work closely with senior leadership to guide employee strategy and measurement

· Partner on all aspects of identifying, evaluating, and communicating key insights that tell the story behind the numbers, our employee experience, and key drivers

· Enjoy Being part of a team and working in an “all hands on deck” environment, shifting between different types of tasks, working with several partners, and being passionate about storytelling.

· Ability to investigate the root cause of data and reporting issues

Your Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in business (Finance, Operations, Accounting, etc.) or highly technical field (Engineering, mathematics, data analytics, etc.)

· Passion for business analytics, modeling, and planning

· 3+ years of Anaplan model-building experience with at least 1 large and complex ground-up build

· Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

· Excellent verbal, written, and computer communication skills with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

· Motivated self-starter

· Experience working autonomously and collaboratively in a rapid-growth environment

Preferred Skills

· Significant Anaplan Workforce Planning and FPA use case experience

· End-to-end Anaplan deployment experience;

· Consulting experience or academic research in a technical field (economics, engineering, science, math, etc.);

· Experience collaborating on dynamic projects with HR, finance, accounting, product, and/or engineering teams;

· Organizational change or project management leadership experience.

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