Manager, Financial Planning Systems

The Manager of Financial Planning Systems is responsible for overseeing the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) systems within the organization. This role involves managing the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of financial systems to support the company's strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes. The manager will work closely with finance, IT, and other departments to ensure that the financial systems are aligned with business needs and contribute to efficient and accurate financial decision-making.,

• Lead enhancement/new use case delivery, ensuring good team velocity as well as quality work, adherent to Anaplan best practices.


• Upskill the team, growing junior resources on Anaplan and on the internal ways of working.


• Contribute to the Anaplan Center of Excellence organization defining best practices, supporting proof-of-concepts, and bringing new ideas.


• Translate business user requirements into technical developments, leveraging prototypes and mock-ups.


• Partner with business experts and finance stakeholders to gather and interpret planning and budgeting requirements.


• Serve as an Anaplan SME to speak broadly about Anaplan best practices from prior experiences.


• Own training, documenting, tracking, prioritizing, and delivering results for Anaplan implementation.


• Work closely with the CoE and business leaders to shape the long-term Anaplan roadmap by identifying new use cases, exploring new features, and instilling solution development standards.


• Conceive and develop "Proof of Concepts" models to showcase how things will translate in real-time scenarios and to establish creditability of the Anaplan platform for consideration.


• Leverage in-depth expertise of organization's business processes to develop relevant solutions to improve planning processes, data quality, and experience through Anaplan.


• Collaborates with cross-functional business leaders to ensure Anaplan solutions address business requirements and effectively enable finance stakeholders to deliver business insights.


• Develop, enhance, maintain, and ensure the accuracy of Anaplan-based models and dashboards.


• Be a go to resource for all things Anaplan @ Greystar - promote Anaplan's best practices, stay informed of new features and releases and assess feasibility before incorporating.


• General system admin responsibilities, security, user access, etc


• Developing in-depth understanding business processes and develop solutions to improve functionality, user experience and data quality of Anaplan.


• Manage Anaplan datahub and integrations with Anaplan


• Manage cutovers in dev/test/prod environments


• Perform regression testing


• Track and resolve defects


• Leverage your expertise to provide valuable estimates for the level of effort associated with workstreams and user stories.


• Periodically conduct QA to ensure the model is optimized and maintainable on the long run.


• Stay abreast of latest Anaplan and related systems functionalities as well as industry best practices on data modelling, planning, and process definition.
  
  Bachelor's Degree (IT or technical-related degree preferred)


• Anaplan Model Builder certification (Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3). Master Anaplanner is a plus.


• 3-4 years of successfully implementing Anaplan solutions as model builder or 1+ years as a solution architect.


• Experience leading a team of model builders.


• Experience with Anaplan integrators like Anaplan Connect, APIs, and Informatica (Hyperconnect).


• Experience in regional/global Application Operations & Support Management role and understanding of data integration is a plus.


• Expert skills of Excel spreadsheet modelling, pivot tables, formulas, charts, etc.


• Experience in running Helpdesk/support to end-users, incident management, and problem-solving.


• Lean / Agile Product Development expertise and experience.


• Proficiency in English language and ability to communicate technical topics in a simple way to non-technical audience., Strong problem-solving skills with a solutions-oriented approach to challenges and root cause analysis capabilities.


• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at senior management levels.


• Ability to act independently and exercise independent judgment and discretion within generally defined practices and policies to carry out responsibilities.


• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment while managing multiple projects and strict deadlines.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Role-model: giving examples to the team and ensuring they perform at their best.


• Being always inclusive: creating a healthy environment where everybody feels welcome and safe to share ideas.


• Ability to lead processes effectively and deliver outputs on time.


• Ability to manipulate and sort large volume of data in excel.


• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and meet deadlines.


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