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 Finance Transformation team and is responsible for the successful design, build, implementation, and maintenance of Anaplan-based solution.

The ideal candidate is a team player that has experience building financial models and enjoys solving and streamlining complex business problemsusing Anaplan. A successful candidate enjoys detailed and challenging puzzles, thrives in an ever-changingenvironment, 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.

Working Hours: Requires flexibility to work evening shifts in India to accommodate collaboration and meetings with our team in the United States.

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 functionalityin 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 explainshow the model was built and why, deploymentprocedures and instructions for run state/administrators

Participate in the development of data integration pipelines between source systems and Anaplan by partnering with other internal organizationsto design data models, APIs, or other architectural elements

Identify and remedy technical debt to ensure high model health

Monitor and validate data processingworkflows 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 deploymentactivities

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

3+ years of Anaplan Model Building experience

Can speak 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 havewalked-the-walk and have a strong finance, FP&A, sales planning and forecasting background with the technical chops building solutions with Excel, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, 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 tothe 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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