Senior Manager, IT Finance Projects

Maidenhead - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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:Bachelors 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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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 ...