Job Overview:
A Senior Manager of the IT Finance - Projects will lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise-wide Anaplan models and oversee the Workday Professional Services Automation (PSA), serving as the subject matter expert for financial planning (FP&A) transformation. This role oversees model optimization, data integration, and user adoption.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Strategy & Governance: Establish, maintain, and enforce best practices for Anaplan models, ensuring adherence to governance frameworks and the "Anaplan Way" methodology.
Project Financial Tracking Transformation: Be the lead IT partner on the technology transformation to transition to our align way of tracking project work in Workday.
Solution Architecture & Build: Oversee the design and development of complex Anaplan models, and Workday project module
Model Development & Architecture: Lead the design, building, and enhancement of complex, connected Anaplan models for forecasting, budgeting, and planning.
Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with finance, IT, and business partners to translate business requirements into functional Anaplan technical specs. Oversee the requirements for the Workday PSA Module.
System Maintenance & Support: Oversee model performance, data integration, user acceptance testing (UAT), and root-cause analysis for system issues.
Leadership & Training: Mentor, coach, and manage a team of developers/analysts while facilitating training for end-users, and a consultant-based support team.
Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for automation and optimization within the FP&A landscape.
Qualifications (Minimum Required):
Proven experience in IT business consulting (generally gained over 7+ years), including 2 years' hands-on experience in Anaplan model maintenance for finance/FP&A.
Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of Anaplan architecture, data modeling, and user experience (UX) design.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, IT, or related field.
Proven leadership of large, cross-functional Anaplan programs (multi-model ecosystems, complex integrations, ALM) and/or Workday PSA module
Strong grasp of financial processes: budgeting/forecasting, close-to-forecast alignment, management reporting, cost allocations, scenario modeling.
Skills: Strong communication skills to interact with executive-level stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications Include:
Experience in complex, global process transformations.
Understanding of financial process taxonomy (e.g., Capital Planning, Workforce Planning).
Ability to lead, mentor, and build high-performing teams.
Anaplan Solution Architect or Master Anaplanner certification.
Experience with driver-based planning, zero-based budgeting, and advanced scenario/sensitivity analysis.
Background with data warehousing (Snowflake/Redshift/Databricks), iPaaS/ETL (Informatica, MuleSoft, Boomi, Fivetran), and BI (Power BI/Tableau).
Exposure to SOX/compliance in financial systems, and ITGC controls.
People leadership of hybrid teams (FTE + SI/contractors) across time zones.
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