Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Anaplan Solutions Architect to set technical direction and lead connected planning for Corporate FP&A at a fast-growing technology company. In our lean team, you will be both architect and hands-on builder, independently guiding complex design decisions while coaching FP&A colleagues toward greater self-sufficiency. You will help advance a continuously updated, driver-based forecast grounded in business drivers, robust data, and validated machine-learning inputs, freeing Finance partners to advise the business and giving leaders timely projections.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and build connected models for financial statements, workforce, allocations, annual planning, and long-range scenarios.
- Shape the planning architecture and roadmap with Finance leaders, balancing business value, scalability, and delivery capacity.
- Establish design standards and resolve cross-model dependencies to keep planning solutions intuitive, performant, and maintainable.
- Coach FP&A users and builders to own more of their analysis, scenarios, and model development.
- Integrate trusted enterprise data and predictive outputs into Anaplan, partnering with data and analytics engineers.
- Advance continuously refreshed, driver-based forecasting with clear reconciliation, review, and override controls.
- Provide technical leadership to builders and implementation partners, owning solution quality, acceptance, and knowledge transfer.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years, including hands-on Anaplan
- Extensive hands-on Anaplan experience with a record of architecting and delivering complex connected planning solutions
- Deep understanding of Corporate FP&A and the judgment to translate Finance priorities into architectural decisions
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex delivery while building directly in a lean team
- Experience with integrations, model performance, reconciliation, and controlled deployment
- Experience mentoring builders, developing Finance users, and advising senior stakeholders on design and delivery tradeoffs
Preferred qualifications:
- Anaplan Solution Architect certification or Master Anaplanner designation
- Experience with integrated three-statement planning and driver-based forecasting
- Experience integrating predictive models or enterprise data platforms with planning applications
Compensation: $130,000 – $200,000 per year
Full-time regular employee offer package: pay within range listed + bonus + benefits + equity
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