Anaplan Systems Architect

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap and architecture for Anaplan across sales compensation, headcount planning, and forecasting modules.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for data integrity issues, leading root-cause investigations when Anaplan does not reconcile to source-of-truth systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, and Greenhouse.
• Manage external Anaplan consultants and implementation partners, including scoping statements of work, vetting proposals, and holding vendors accountable for timelines and quality.
• Partner with Sales Finance, Revenue Operations, Sales Compensation, and Accounting leadership to translate commission plans, ASC 606 accrual methodology, and organizational changes into scalable model designs.
• Drive FP&A finance transformation by modernizing planning, forecasting, and reporting processes and replacing manual workflows with automation and systematization.
• Lead process and controls improvements to identify data issues before payroll processing and month-end close.
• Present platform strategy and build-versus-buy, technical-debt, and maintainability recommendations to finance leadership.
• Advise FP&A leadership on finance technology and AI-enabled tooling.
• Build and mentor a team responsible for model builds, integrations, and support.
• Own platform governance, including user access, security, environment management, and documentation standards.
• Drive standardization and automation across reporting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience building and implementing Anaplan solutions, including 3+ years in a leadership or senior individual-contributor capacity.
• Anaplan Certified Model Builder certification at Level 2 or higher; Master Anaplanner preferred.
• Deep experience designing, developing, and maintaining Anaplan models for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and sales compensation.
• Strong Anaplan Data Hub integration and design experience.
• Track record of leading finance transformation initiatives and modernizing legacy processes, tools, or finance-function architecture.
• Experience managing external consultants and implementation partners, including scoping and proposal evaluation.
• Strong understanding of sales compensation structures, ASC 606 commission accounting, and FP&A forecasting.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex, cross-system data reconciliation issues independently.
• Familiarity with implementation methodologies including requirements gathering, design, build, testing, and deployment; Agile experience is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior finance and sales leaders and explain technical model logic to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to operate with high ownership in an ambiguous, evolving environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Workato or similar integration and automation platforms.

Compensation and Benefits

• National US base pay range: $152,000–$190,000 USD.
• Eligible roles may receive commission or other variable compensation through the company's incentive compensation program.
• Benefits include stock options, medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, a 401(k) company match, paid vacation and sick leave, paid parental leave, employer-paid disability coverage, and additional health and wellbeing benefits.