Senior FP&A Analyst - Anaplan

October 10, 2026

Job Description

Job Description

This Senior FP&A Analyst - Anaplan role focuses on partnering with business stakeholders to design, build, and maintain Anaplan models that support core financial planning and analysis activities. You will translate business requirements into scalable Anaplan solutions, ensure data accuracy across systems, and enable insightful reporting, dashboards, and key performance metrics. This position offers a strong blend of finance, systems, and business partnership work, with meaningful exposure to executive-level planning and forecasting discussions and the opportunity to influence future-state planning initiatives.

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with business partners and internal stakeholders to understand business processes, financial planning requirements, and opportunities for improvement across the Anaplan platform.
Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications and design, configure, and build Anaplan application models that support planning, forecasting, and reporting processes.
Configure and maintain Anaplan lists, modules, dashboards, actions, and other model settings to align with evolving business needs and ensure system scalability.
Participate in and, when appropriate, lead user acceptance testing (UAT) and deployment activities to validate functionality, ensure data integrity, and support smooth rollouts of new or enhanced Anaplan solutions.
Develop and maintain comprehensive model documentation, including design specifications, data flow diagrams, user guides, and process documentation to support ongoing maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Build, manage, and optimize data flows to and from client or internal systems, ensuring accurate integration, reconciliation, and alignment of data across platforms.
Support monthly planning cycles, forecast updates, and variance analysis by ensuring data accuracy, model integrity, and system availability within Anaplan.
Support the development and enhancement of financial dashboards, reporting tools, and key performance metrics within Anaplan to provide actionable insights to finance and business leaders.
Partner with multiple business units, particularly finance, to gather requirements, refine processes, and align Anaplan models with broader organizational planning and reporting needs.
Contribute ideas and recommendations for enhancements, modeling improvements, and future-state planning initiatives, ensuring the Anaplan platform continues to evolve with the business.
Engage in discussions with executive-level stakeholders on planning and forecasting topics by providing accurate data, analyses, and system-driven insights.
Own and steward the Anaplan platform from a functional perspective, ensuring it remains a critical and reliable tool for financial planning and analysis without requiring deep technical development work.

Essential Skills

At least 1 year of hands‑on Anaplan experience, including building or maintaining models, lists, modules, dashboards, and actions.
A minimum of 4 years of overall consulting or full-time work experience in finance reporting and systems administration.
At least 4 years of experience working across multiple business units, specifically within finance, to support system processes and requirements.
Strong financial analysis and financial modeling skills, with the ability to translate business questions into analytical and modeling solutions.
Proficiency in Anaplan as a planning and modeling platform, including configuration, maintenance, and user support.
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain data flows between Anaplan and other systems, including data reconciliation and validation.
Experience supporting monthly planning cycles, forecast updates, and variance analysis within a financial planning environment.
Ability to develop and support financial dashboards, reporting tools, and key performance indicators within a planning or analytics platform.
Strong business partnership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to document models, processes, and requirements clearly and concisely.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Anaplan certification, demonstrating formal training and proficiency in the platform.
4 or more years of Anaplan experience, including reporting, modeling, and dashboard building, is highly preferred.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Information Technology, Data Management, or a related field.
Experience participating in or leading user acceptance testing (UAT) and deployment activities for finan

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