Anaplan Analyst
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Job Summary
You will be part of a small high-impact founding team that builds the Anaplan planning ecosystem from the ground up establishing processes defining standards generating insights and delivering outputs that go directly to senior leadership across two of Fords most important global markets.
If you are Anaplan certified commercially curious and excited by the intersection of financial planning and cutting-edge connected services technology this role was built for you.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain Master Files within Anaplan including hierarchy management list updates version control and Central Data Hub data validation
- Continuous improvement of Anaplan models challenging existing processes and identifying opportunities for automation and simplification.
- Design build and enhance Anaplan models for forecasting budgeting reporting and portfolio analysis.
- Develop automated and standardised reporting that enables actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
- Develop automated driver-based variance analysis between actuals and forecasts/budgets supporting management reviews
- Strengthen and optimise existing models ensuring they remain robust scalable and compliant with best practice.
- Provide high-quality support to local markets and management teams.
- Be the person the team relies on when it matters whether that means fixing a broken formula before a senior management review delivering a model improvement within a sprint cycle or contributing to a major platform release that redefines how Ford plans its connected services business.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new model releases and enhancements reconciling outputs against source systems before go-live sign-off
Qualifications
- BE/BCom/ Bachelors degree with 5-6 years of experience/ MBA with 2-3 years of experience
- Anaplan Level 2 Model Building or Solution Architect Certification 2-3 years of hands-on experience in building/ enhancing models in Anaplan
- Demonstrated experience in leveraging Anaplan for FP&A activities
- Familiarity with iERP or subscription platforms desirable; GDIA / ETL exposure advantageous; Advanced Excel Data analytics
- System Ownership Mindset - You care about data integrity model performance and documentation standards. When something is wrong you find it you do not wait for someone else to flag it.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;. Able to articulate data issues accounting entries model outputs and control findings clearly to team members regional stakeholders auditors and IT partners
- Strong analytical skills and curiosity to understand physicals that drive financial outcomes
Collaborative but Independent You build strong working relationships across GBS India EU and NA but you are also self-sufficient. You do not need to be managed closely to deliver quality work on time.
- Strong drive for results; can deliver and mobilize others to deliver requirements
- Work shift timing: 12:30pm to 10pm IST
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