Sr. Anaplan Consultant

Mandatory Skills : Anaplan ALM FP&A Required Model Builder Certificate Level 3/Solution Architect

Job description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Techno-Functional Consultant with strong expertise in Anaplan. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on technical Model building and testing skills with a deep understanding of enterprise business planning data flows integration touchpoints and end-to-end validation across planning models and enterprise data platforms.

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Key Responsibilities

1. Anaplan Functional & Technical Validation

Review business user requirements and user stories to create comprehensive test scenarios.

Validate Anaplan modules lists hierarchies actions and processes.

Test model-to-model model-to-data hub model-to-target system integrations (Anaplan Connect APIs Airflow etc.).

Perform regression UAT and performance testing on planning cycles and connected planning workflows.

Lead end-to-end QA strategy for user stories.

Maintain test plans traceability matrices test execution reports and defect management.

Work closely with product owners planners data engineers and developers to ensure high-quality releases.

Drive quality reviews root-cause analysis and continuous improvements.

Preferred

Test REST APIs microservices and integration layers connected to Anaplan or downstream systems.

Conduct schema checks data integrity validation reconciliation and lineage verification.

Validate data ingestion transformation and processing across ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g. Azure Data Factory Snowflake Databricks etc).

Required Skills & Competencies

Functional Skills

Strong understanding of planning processes: FP&A / supply chain planning / workforce planning / sales planning or related domains.

Ability to translate business rules into test cases and validate model behavior.

Technical Skills (Mandatory)

Anaplan: model structures formulas actions/processes imports/exports ALM UX testing.

QA: functional and technical testing APIs data ingestions scheduled jobs etc

Anaplan (Model Builder L3 and above)

Tools (preferred)

Jira AWS ALM GitHub Sharepoint Teams

Snowflakes/Azure/AWS certification

Python PyTest Postman Selenium

Knowledge of data quality frameworks

Exposure to analytics platforms (Power BI/Tableau)

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Education:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Commerce Engineering Computer Science Data/Analytics or related fields.