Junior Anaplan Model Builder

Overview

Junior Anaplan Model Builder on athenahealth's Finance Planning & Analysis Center of Excellence Transformation team, advancing the Anaplan EPM environment and adjacent tech stack as part of a 6-person Model Builder team across the US and India.

What you'll do

• Over time, become the go-to person for Revenue Recognition in Anaplan, in close partnership with business leads.
• Act as a Business Systems Analyst to partner with Accounting and FP&A users to identify process gaps and areas for improvement, including UX design.
• Translate business problems and spreadsheets into Anaplan multi-dimensional solutions, following athena's development process: gather requirements, design, develop, test, maintain and improve models while following standardization guidelines.
• Modify existing models to optimize, improve, and/or create new functionality and user experience, considering UX pages and AnaplanXL as the primary user interface.
• Define data integration and process scheduling requirements in partnership with IT using ETL tools (Informatica, Anaplan Data Orchestrator); provide guidance to data owners on Anaplan staging best practices and help reconcile data when applicable.
• Partner with Internal Audit to maintain a SOX and ITGC-compliant environment, including quarterly reviews of user access and model revisions.
• Resolve questions, including researching, explaining, documenting, and escalating issues to Anaplan support.
• Communicate status, from key milestones to tactical bug fixes, including weekly updates, team meetings, and ad hoc conversations.
• Become an Anaplan platform guru through team hackathons, understanding monthly platform updates, and achieving additional Anaplan Model Builder certifications.
• Set and work toward long-term goals, such as becoming a Solution Architect.
• Assist with hierarchy governance process, including monthly review files and bulk data updates.

What you'll need

• Ability to demonstrate examples of ambition and resolving work-related challenges through independent work.
• Familiarity with financial analysis, modeling, and reporting and client level planning concepts.
• 1+ years of Anaplan model building experience, including at least Level 1 Model Building certification and 1 full lifecycle implementation in Anaplan.
• Demonstrated Model Builder technical ability in modules with multiple dimensions, import and export actions, and ALM.
• Willingness to step outside of your comfort zone to resolve issues and implement enhancements that move the team forward.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills with a customer-first approach.
• Proactive obsession with getting the details right and executing projects on time.
• Strong communication skills: concisely align, teach, and document.
• Operations-minded: a well-organized, action-oriented planner who understands process flows.
• Track record of maintaining strict confidentiality.

Nice to have

• Anaplan Polaris Model Building, Anaplan Data Orchestration, Workflows, and AnaplanXL experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore - Whitefield, India.
• Flexibility: not all work needs to be done within an office full-time; consistent communication and digital collaboration tools are used.