Senior Application Architect - Finance Applications

Senior Application Architect - Finance Applications 

Anaplan is solving the toughest challenges for Finance teams supporting financial planning, analysis, consolidation and reporting. We have always had world-class flexibility and user adoption, but now, with our out-of-the-box Finance Applications and embedded Anaplan Intelligence platform, we are delivering more value than ever, faster. Our solutions drive some of the world's largest companies, provide real-time insights, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions that optimize performance and improve decision-making.    Within Anaplan’s Finance and Workforce Center of Excellence as an Application Architect you will build out-of-the-box and extendable applications on the Anaplan platform for planning, forecasting and reporting use cases – across industries – including Revenue, Cost of Sales and Margin, Operating Expense, Capital, Profitability, Financial Statements, and Strategic Finance Planning.    As an Application Architect, you will be working directly with the Finance Product Manager to determine requirements for building applications.  You will be responsible for creating the architecture for the applications and alongside model builders, making the application a reality. You will be responsible for working with technical Product Managers to determine platform dependencies needed to deliver world-class applications. Additionally, this role will collaborate with our GTM and Professional Services teams to ensure they fully leverage the capabilities of the applications. 

This role combines excellent collaboration skills, deep understanding of Finance use cases, the Anaplan platform, Model Builder expertise, and an innovative mindset combined with strong attention to detail and deadlines.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Build and deliver Finance Applications by leveraging the suite of Anaplan platform components (including model and UX building, user management, data integration, reporting, PlanIQ, etc.) by: 

• Creating and defining detailed application requirements with Finance Product Management.  Translating business requirements to technical terminology to ensure the product is built to follow best practices.  

• Working with complex requirements to design and build the application and UX to meet agreed upon standards. 

• Ensuring the user experience developed meets UX standards, is intuitive, and easy to use. 

• Participating in quality assurance, updating and refining as needed, through successful delivery.  Guide performance testing and tuning to ensure the application can scale.  

• Upgrading applications with new Anaplan platform capabilities and features, as driven by prospects, customers and partner feedback. 

• Partner with Center of Excellence Advisors, Product Management, Professional Services and GTM Enablement Teams to ensure the Finance COE delivers: 

• Compelling conceptual demos and all supporting content including training and guides. 

• Full configuration and implementation content, documentation, and best practices to Anaplan’s delivery Teams. 

• Ongoing Finance Application improvements and optimizations. 

• Act as a trusted internal and external knowledge-expert for your Finance Applications. 

• Potentially support Sales and Customer success with prospect and customer opportunities and escalations, including enabling Anaplan partners. 

Key Metrics 

• Meet the new release and upgrade project deadlines for Finance Applications. 

• Adoption and successful deployment of Finance Applications from enablement by Anaplan Teams through to Customer implementations. 

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of diverse experience as an Anaplan Model Builder, deploying Finance use cases. At least Level 3 Certification.  Master Anaplanner preferred. 

• Able to bring an engineering discipline to Anaplan applications - ensuring scalability, configurable functionality and the ability to manage your application build activities through to completion and delivery. 

• Ideal but not required: 

• Experience with some of the wider facets of the Anaplan platform (PlanIQ, Optimizer, ADO, Workflow and Polaris, etc). 

• Experience with Financial Close, Consolidation and Reporting. 

• Understanding of product management, GTM operations and enablement. 

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a results-driven perspective, able to collaborate across teams, with a focus on contributing deliverables of the highest possible quality and impact. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred. 

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