Director, Anaplan

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We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Director of Anaplan to join our FP&A team. This role blends expertise in Anaplan and a strong ability to collaborate with key partners in FP&A as well as business leaders within Qualys. You will own the development and maintenance of our Anaplan models, enhance our planning capabilities through effective and efficient model design, lead a team of highly qualified Anaplan model builders, and help execute on critical planning objectives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Build relationships at senior levels of the organization to drive influence, consensus and to ensure optimal adoption of Anaplan
• Identify and troubleshoot model issues, providing technical support and recommending solutions for improvement
• Clearly define, set project objectives, critical metrics, scope and cascade strategy for the Anaplan platform development
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured situations
• Promote Anaplan's standard methodologies, stay informed of new features and releases and assess feasibility before incorporating
• Contribute technical knowledge in areas of specialism
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail
• Partner with business leaders and the business applications team to implement, optimize, and maintain business systems and augment with a separate data warehouse as needed
• Create, maintain, monitor, and analyze all master data in ERP & CRM and integrated solutions
• Document processes and assist different functions with process optimization
• Build and support complex planning and forecasting models using the Anaplan platform and build Anaplan Visualizations
• Provide creative and logical approaches to solve data, business, and process inefficiencies
• Perform data validation across multiple systems
• Draft and maintain policies, procedures, and other documentation to ensure uniform, accurate, and consistent data are present and well understood by all users of the system
• Provide testing support for upgrades and releases, including integration testing from various sources to target systems
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagement
• Understand the end-to-end structure of financial planning and analysis including budgeting, and forecasting both headcount and vendor spend
• Set up and automate reporting and charting to analyze trends and patterns
• Build and execute a vision of integrated planning
• Perform other ad hoc responsibilities as necessary

You are:

• A team leader with Demonstrated extensive abilities and a proven track record of supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust; seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; and coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and organized; prior experience having gathered, structured, monitored, and validated data to ensure data integrity and detailed documentation; has developed a habit of checking the accuracy of data and analysis several times over before submitting for review
• A self-starter, always on-it, and high-achiever with a focus on meeting deadlines, doing a great job, and leadership
• A superior problem solver, possessing the initiative to look into the details and interpret the impact of key business drivers
• Excellent multi-tasker who has strong technical, time, and project management skills
• Strong communicator, both written & verbal; reliable and responsive to email and phone communications
• Highest level of integrity and good judgment with the ability to effectively deal with highly sensitive, confidential information

 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Accounting/Finance/Business or related field
• Certified Anaplanner required (Master Anaplanner preferred)
• Minimum of 10 years of hands on experience optimizing business processes and analytics and building or maintaining master data management in an ERP or CRM system
• Several years of experience leading a team of in house Anaplan model builders and designers
• Experience querying data from a native source (ERP, CRM or database). Understanding of backend data and database structures
• Experience partnering with FP&A to deliver insightful information
• Endless curiosity and a need to dive deeper for understanding
• Hands on experience with NetSuite and Workday
• Deep experience modeling complex problems, both conceptually and tactically (spreadsheets, analysis tools, visualization)

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Annual Salary Guidelines: $185,000 - $210,000

Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.