Transformation Financial Flexibility Manager

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decisionmaking through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

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Your Impact

The manager of Financial Flexibility will lead the efforts across Anaplan to deliver process and systematic changes to the business that result in a more efficient company structure. The candidate will focus on two to three key major initiatives during the year to yield structural cost improvement. The outcome will impact change in the company to move from a fixed cost approach to a cost structure that behaves largely variable and will free up budgetary capacity for funding targeted investments transition costs and profit improvement. The ability to influence across functions and through all levels of the organization will be essential to be successful.

As a member of the Finance organization this crucial hire understands the accounting standards that influence cash costs and NonGAAP profitability measures coupled with sound financial savvy. Responsibilities include:

• Timely delivery of project results that meet or exceed agreedupon metrics or goals
• Structuring of identified business challenges logically
• Handson leadership and mentoring of Project Managers on process improvement and general project management skills
• Key driver for change within the business units aligned to supporting project and tollgating and helping them to learn understand adjust and grow with the business transformation
• Conducting indepth analyses (when required) including data collection data analyses and synthesis of data to generate key insights for projects or Lean deployment strategies
• Developing presentations for senior management to facilitate discussions on project or program progress results and assistance needed from them
• Ensuring disciplined datadriven welldocumented approaches to improving endtoend operational performance led by the voice of the customer
• Quantifying impact of projects on financials productivity customer experience and compliance
• Promoting a riskaware culture; ensuring efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes
• Recognizing obstacles preventing others from achieving their goals and readily intervening finding resourceful ways to remove them
• Developing and maintaining relationships with senior leadership

Your Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited university; MBA preferred
• Background in Lean Six Sigma or related continuous improvement areas
• Experience in change management partner management and influencing people without authority
• Experience in engineering process reengineering offshoring and outsourcing
• Strong oral and written communication interpersonal presentation and organization skills
• Ability to communicate with all levels of staff management and senior leadership
• Proven ability to work in ambiguity
• Highly motivated to take ownership and drive initiatives with minimal direction
• Demonstrated ability to lead and empower teams of 3 or more highperforming individuals
• Capacity to think strategically and innovatively

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