Junior Anaplan Model Builder

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Position Summary:

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

We are looking for a self-driven Junior Anaplan Model Builder to advance our Anaplan Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) environment and adjacent areas of the tech stack on the Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Center of Excellence Transformation team.

The Team: Our FP&A team drives decisions at all levels, from Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team strategy to manager-level tactical operations, by analyzing and reporting financial results and developing forecasts.

Within FP&A, the Center of Excellence Transformation team is a highly agile and visible team of trusted partners we are continuously creating, improving, and partnering to advance athena's forecasting and reporting capabilities across people, process, and technology solutions. You'll be part of a 6-person Model Builder team based in the US and India.

Job Responsibilities

• Over time, become the go-to person for Revenue Recognition in Anaplan in close partnership with business leads: business partner to Accounting, business systems analyst, model builder, UX designer, and enhancement project manager
• Act as a Business Systems Analyst to partner with Accounting and FP&A users to identify process gaps and areas for improvement, including in UX design
• Translate business problems and spreadsheets into best-in-class Anaplan multi-dimensional solutions following athena's development process: gather requirements, design, develop, test, maintain & improve models all while following key standardization guidelines
• Modify existing models to optimize, improve, and/or create new functionality and user experience, considering both UX pages and AnaplanXL as the primary user interface
• Define data integration and process scheduling requirements in partnership with IT leveraging ETL tools (Informatica, Anaplan Data Orchestrator) provide guidance to data owners on Anaplan staging best practices, and help reconcile data when applicable
• Partner with Internal Audit to maintain a SOX and ITGC-compliant environment, including quarterly reviews of user access and model revisions
• Resolve questions, including researching, explaining, documenting, and escalating issues to Anaplan support
• Communicate status, from key milestones to tactical bug fixes, including weekly updates, team meetings, and ad hoc conversations?
• Become an Anaplan platform guru through friendly competition in team hackathons, understanding monthly platform updates, and achieving additional Anaplan Model Builder certifications
• Set and work toward long-term goals, such as becoming a Solution Architect
• Assist with hierarchy governance process, including monthly review files and bulk data updates

Behaviors and Abilities

• Ability to demonstrate examples of ambition and resolving work-related challenges through independent work
• Familiarity with financial analysis, modeling, & reporting and client level planning concepts
• 1+ years of Anaplan model building experience, including at least Level 1 Model Building certification and 1 full lifecycle implementation in Anaplan
• Demonstrated Model Builder technical ability in modules with multiple dimensions, import and export actions, and ALM. Anaplan Polaris Model Building, Anaplan Data Orchestration, Workflows, AnaplanXL experience a bonus
• Willingness to step outside of your comfort zone to resolve issues and implement enhancements that move the team forward
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills with a customer-first approach
• Proactive obsession with getting the details right and executing projects on time
• Strong communication skills: concisely align, teach, and document
• Operations-minded: a well-organized, action-oriented planner who understands process flows
• Track record of maintaining strict confidentiality