Anaplan Model Builder

Job Requisition ID #

25WD91305

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 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.

• 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 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

• 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 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, 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 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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