Adaptive Planning Consultant

Accordion

$72K — $90K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of Adaptive Planning Consulting experience
  • Strong financial and management accounting background
  • Current Adaptive Planning certification
  • Advanced knowledge of Adaptive features and components
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills
  • Skilled in business analysis and requirements gathering

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with team members to develop Adaptive Planning solutions
  • Implement budgets and forecasts within Adaptive Planning for Finance
  • Analyze and translate financial models into Adaptive Planning
  • Provide technical guidance on Adaptive suite products
  • Maintain certification in Adaptive Planning solutions
  • Lead workshops to define implementation strategy
  • Document client business requirements and translate them into Adaptive functionalities
  • Customize and configure client Adaptive Planning environments
  • Engage in pre-sales meetings to assess project efforts
  • Provide client support and address project inquiries
  • Travel to client sites as necessary

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with remote flexibility
  • Opportunity for career growth within a growing team
  • Involvement in diverse projects with various workstreams
  • Engagement with a supportive and collaborative workplace
Full Job Description
CFO Technology

Accordion's CFO Technology Practice effectively and efficiently delivers the digital services and solutions to support organizational strategic initiatives.

Our CFO Technology experts work cross-functionally - alongside practitioners from all corners of Accordion - to arm CFOs with the appropriate digital solutions needed to implement the team's business process recommendations and to capitalize on value creation opportunities. From ERP, CPM, Analytics, Data Integration, RPA, and beyond, CFO Tech provides finance leaders with a single, objective partner capable of delivering from strategy to execution.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and will be a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location. We will also consider candidates who are remote in Canada or the US.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
What You'll Do:
  • Collaborate with functional and technical team members to develop effective Adaptive Planning solutions
  • Implement budgets, forecasts, and reports within Adaptive Planning for Finance
  • Analyze financial models and reports (spreadsheet/non-spreadsheet-based models) and translating those models into Adaptive Planning
  • Provide technical guidance (design, model, configuration, troubleshooting, etc.) for the Adaptive suite of products
  • Maintain proficiency and certification in the Adaptive Planning solution suite.
  • Participate in Adaptive Planning sales opportunities and scoping
  • Work directly with clients to document business requirements and translate them into specific Adaptive Planning functionality
  • Participate and lead client workshops to define implementation strategy
  • Effectively configure and customize client Adaptive Planning environments to develop proof of concepts and present sustainable solutions to client executives and key stakeholders
  • Attend pre-sales meetings with prospective clients to assess project level-of-effort with sales team members
  • Provide general customer service and assistance to clients and serves as the 'go-to' resource on all project related inquiries
  • Travel to client site as needed
You Have:
  • Minimum of 2+ years of Adaptive Planning Consulting experience
  • Strong financial and/or management accounting background
  • Must hold current Adaptive Planning certification
  • Advanced level hands-on knowledge of all Adaptive features and components including environment settings, modeling, security, workflow, dot notation logic, OfficeConnect, and data integration is necessary
  • Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel required
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
  • Strong time management skills
  • Strong client relation skills, organization and prioritization capabilities
  • Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities
You Are:
  • A self-starter with a strong work ethic
  • A leader of others; you lead by example
  • A strong team player, able to work with team members across all levels
  • Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
  • Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing).
  • Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
  • Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
  • Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies
  • Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
  • Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
  • Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $72,250 to $90,000 USD + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

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