Anaplan Model Builder
Job Summary
Job Description
- Anaplan Model Builder with finance language
- Subject matter expert in Finance/Sales planning
- Experience with Agile/Lean methodologies
- Strong finance, FP&A background
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- Adaptable to team and work environments
- Hungry to learn Anaplan
- Degree in finance, business, or engineering
- Excellent listening and communication skills
- Courage to speak up with divergent views
- Takes responsibility for results
- Anaplan Certified Model Builder Level 2+
9 skills required
Job Details
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Position Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated person to join an award-winning Anaplan Center of Excellence to help shape the future of connected forecasting and planning in Finance. The Anaplan Model Builder is a key role in Autodesk’s Business Insights and Automation team and is responsible for the successful design, build, implementation, and maintenance of Anaplan-based solutions. The ideal candidate is a team player that has experience building financial models and enjoys solving and streamlining complex business problems using Anaplan. A successful candidate enjoys detailed and challenging puzzles, thrives in an ever-changing environment, and innovates without boundaries. The ability to listen and ask inquisitive questions that improve financial business processes and solution those with business stakeholders is essential.
Responsibilities
Translate existing business processes and problems into sophisticated multi-dimensional Anaplan models starting by building the underlying architecture, data schema, calculation methodologies, process improvements, model building and reporting, to arrive at a great user experience
Maintain existing Anaplan models. Incorporate new functionality in response to business-driven changes, develop new feature enhancements, and fix production issues to maintain accuracy and uptime, end user trust and satisfaction
Author technical documentation that explains how the model was built and why, deployment procedures and instructions for run state/administrators
Participate in the development of data integration pipelines between source systems and Anaplan by partnering with other internal organizations to design data models, APIs, or other architectural elements
Identify and remedy technical debt to ensure high model health
Monitor and validate data processing workflows to and from Anaplan
Active participant of a scrum team including user story definition and refinement, backlog prioritization, story estimation, sprint ceremonies (stand-up, demo, retro) and project status
Build relationships and trust with business model owners, team members, end users, collaborating teams and stakeholders
Participate in user acceptance testing, script writing, and deployment activities
Provide hands-on training and office hours to end users to facilitate adoption of the Anaplan model
Use Anaplan model building best practices and standards established within Autodesk and the Anaplan Community
Minimum Qualifications
Model builder who can speak in the finance language of the business, influence and advise on process optimization opportunities, and develop those improvements in Anaplan
Real life experience that turned you into a subject matter expert in planning and modeling for Finance and Sales
Experience working in highly iterative software-focused work practices - Lean, Agile, Anaplan Way
You have walked-the-walk and have a strong finance, FP&A, sales planning and forecasting background with the technical chops building solutions with Excel, Anaplan, SAP BPC, Planful, TM1 or other cloud solutions
Solving interesting problems motivates you to get to work each day. You have excellent quantitative and analytical skills, a high attention to detail and scrutiny of discrepancies that sparks conversations to develop better solutions
Adaptability to work in a large team, small team, independently, remote and in-person
Hungry to learn, adopt and contribute to the Anaplan community
Learned how to learn. You have an undergrad degree in finance, business, or engineering or have a combination of other education and equivalent work
Excellent listening and communication skills with the ability to switch contexts between highly technical and business-focused topics quickly and easily
Actively foster an environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work
Courage to speak up with divergent views in productive ways, and inquisitively approach difficult conversations to drive solutions
You take responsibility for both good and bad results and take initiative in leading remediation, informing others of decisions and plans that affect them
Achieved Anaplan Certified Model Builder Level 2 or above
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About The Company
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
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