What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Manager G&A position at Anaplan?
Reporting to the Director G&A Finance, the Finance Manager G&A will be an effective partner to the leaders of Anaplan global functions in HR, Legal, Finance, enjoying significant CFO exposure. These teams occupy a global footprint and shape Anaplan’s growth through critical initiatives like our facilities strategy and how we envision the Future of Work in an increasingly remote workplace.
This is an outstanding opportunity to become a key Finance business partner by taking ownership of the planning models and business drivers central to the charter of these executives. Traditional aspects of the Finance rhythm (annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and monthly close) are central to the role, but the successful candidate will also demonstrate an ability to link the operational drivers of these functions to the P&L and B/S views., and deliver effective strategic advice to their partners.
Your Impact
- Participate in strategic data analysis and research and modeling for senior company leadership
- Responsible for monthly forecasting and reporting results to business partners
- Provide analytical support for forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning
- Fulfill ad-hoc analytical requests as needed
Your Qualifications
- 6-8 years related experience in financial planning and analysis, business partnering
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field preferred
- Excellent communication skills – comfortable presenting quantitative materials and qualitative implications of analysis before VP and C-level executives
- Strong understanding of key SAAS metrics
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Fluency with financial planning systems, and able to pull their own data (our bread and butter is connected planning, after all!)
- Proven ability to form strong business partner relationships
- Confident in ability to apply accounting principles to financial forecasting, as well as translating the natural language of the business into economic terms (for HR, understanding how merit cycles, and time to hire impact personnel costs, for facilities, an appreciation that the Future of Work will not look like the past and the implications for our global office footprint)
- Humility with respect to the changing needs of the business and the markets we operate in, paired with a strong intellectual curiosity for the underlying drivers of the G&A business models you support
