Anaplan Model Builder

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