Groupon - Chicago, IL
posted about 2 months ago
As a Senior Anaplan Model Builder on the Anaplan Center of Excellence team at Groupon, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the global forecasting, planning, and reporting processes. This position is based in our Chicago office and is integral to the Global Finance team. Your primary responsibilities will include building, administering, and maintaining Anaplan financial models. You will collaborate closely with various teams across the finance organization, including FP&A, Commercial Finance, Marketing Finance, and Accounting, to lead projects aimed at improving process inefficiencies and automating tasks through technology. Your contributions will help deliver significant value back to the organization, and you will also provide ad-hoc analysis for senior financial leadership as needed. In this role, you will become a knowledge and technical expert within Anaplan by completing our best-in-class internal Anaplan enablement program. You will also gain expertise in Anaplan's data sources, including operational data, financial data, Workday, and Salesforce. Your responsibilities will involve coordinating with Global FP&A, Commercial Finance, Sales, and Financial Systems teams to design, develop, and maintain Anaplan applications. You will work collaboratively with various departments to build scalable models for diverse use cases and become a subject matter expert on the existing Anaplan ecosystem and its intricacies. Additionally, you will develop performance dashboards to surface insights, manage data by pulling it from multiple sources, and create integrations to automate data entry into Anaplan using ETL tools like Snaplogic. You will also collaborate with other Anaplan CoE team members to ensure compliance with best build practices and conduct ad-hoc deep dives on pressing business issues, leveraging your Anaplan model builder expertise to provide solutions. Over time, you will expand your model ownership and expertise into new use cases and develop automation routines and data integrations to streamline stakeholder processes.