Adobe - looking for a great Model Builder! (Finance & Marketing COE)

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Adobe is on a roll with Anaplan.  Anaplan is the FP&A org's platform to drive world-wide process scalability / optimization and functionality for workforce, opex, and capex planning.  This year, we launched support for Adobe's marketing organization for world-wide marketing project planning and tracking across a user base of 600+.  We're now working hard on additional top-down/scenario models and use cases (Corp P&L, New Hire Equity, Allocated P&Ls, etc.) to further drive our connected planning journey.  We have a lot ahead!

 

If you're a skilled, passionate model builder looking to stake your claim to fame in leading our ongoing transformation, we want to hear from you!  Take a look at the description below, official posting link is here: >> Job Link - Adobe Careers Website <<.

 

The challenge

As a member of Adobe’s expanding Finance & Marketing Center of Excellence team, you will play a critical role in maintaining and shaping the future direction of expense planning processes and tools used by our FP&A and Marketing communities.  With some systems savvy and a commitment to build upon an Anaplan developer skillset, you will craft new functionality, support end user adoption, and consult on process improvements.  Over time, your scope may expand beyond Anaplan to other systems and use cases.  In addition to a growing set of systems skills, a good understanding of typical duties of Finance and Marketing planning stakeholders will be useful in defining and operationalizing business requirements in collaboration with FP&A, Marketing, Finance Systems, HR Systems, and IT.

 

Who you are

You thrive on a mix of technical work and collaborative problem solving.  You already have a good foundation of Model Builder proficiency in Anaplan, and you’re interested in investing further into your portfolio of systems and automation skills.  You are a strong analytical thinker who can critically relate different pieces of information and craft the right follow-on questions.  You are an innately curious, agile learner with a bias to start figuring things out rather than waiting for the answers.  You make sure your voice is heard when opinions and ideas are being shared.  You’re willing to work hard and earn your way to greater opportunities.

 

What you’ll do

• Use and expand upon your Anaplan admin / model builder skills to design and develop solutions that streamline and automate FP&A and Marketing planning use cases.
• Collaborate across stakeholders across Marketing, FP&A, Finance Systems, and IT to develop concise business requirements and ensure their rigorous implementation throughout the project release cycle.
• Consult with end users to foster knowledge sharing/training, troubleshoot issues, and advocate solutions to address gaps and pain points.
• Drive internal quality control / validation for enhancements, in compliance with Internal Financial Controls and SOX.
• Work closely with Finance Systems and IT to support upstream and downstream Anaplan processes dependencies.

What you'll need to succeed

• BS/BA with preferred focuses in areas of Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or other quantitative / data-driven disciplines.
• 4+ years of progressive business analysis and/or systems experience, preferably with large, multi-national companies.
• Experience as a Model Builder using the Anaplan platform.
• Experience with data architecture / schema design in a multi-dimensional framework.  Strong value placed on experiences with relational databases and working with large data structures; any degree of developer knowledge in any other planning/reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI), data integration tools (SnapLogic), or database query applications such as SQL.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and process consulting skills to translate complex business requirements into concise, high-quality design blueprints for efficient, effective, and scalable Anaplan models.
• Excellent learning agility with bias toward analyzing and crafting order out of ambiguity.
• Robust project management skills, including ability to effectively manage multiple moving pieces to meet deadlines.