Anaplan Model Builder

Job Requisition ID #

25WD90401

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

• Model builder who can speak in 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, 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