Grant Thornton

Transformation - Anaplan Manager

Grant Thornton$90K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, IT, MIS, or related field; Master's degree preferred
  • At least 4 years of consulting experience across various industries
  • Minimum of 4 complete life cycle Anaplan implementations
  • Required industry-recognized professional certification
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Assist in full life cycle Anaplan implementations from planning to deployment
  • Document business requirements and system designs
  • Configure applications and conduct unit testing
  • Create training materials and quick reference guides
  • Conduct training sessions for end users
  • Provide post-deployment support
  • Meet or exceed targeted utilization metrics

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a supportive team in the Transformation practice
  • Access to resources that enhance personal and professional growth
  • Chance to lead projects and work directly with clients to transform their businesses
  • Valuable experience across diverse industries
  • Flexibility for travel up to 40%
Full Job Description
Job Description

As an Anaplan Manager, you'll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Transformation Practice - all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you'll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:
  • Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
  • Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
  • Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
  • Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
  • Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
  • Provide post-production support
  • Participate in full life cycle implementations
  • Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
  • Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
  • Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master's degree is a plus
  • Minimum 4 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
  • Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Anaplan
  • Industry recognized professional certification required
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
  • Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
  • Experience installing/configuring/implementing Infor Applications
  • Exposure or training on Anaplan Applications
  • Knowledge of Anaplan Applications
  • Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
  • Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
  • Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
  • Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%


About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton LLP is the American member firm of Grant Thornton International, the seventh largest accounting network in the world by combined fee income. Grant Thornton LLP is the sixth largest U.S. accounting and advisory organization. The firm operates 59 offices across the US with approximately 8,500 employees, 550 partners, and produces annual revenue in excess of US$1.9 billion. During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, The Times reported that Grant Thornton is in line to earn millions of pounds for acting as trustees in a bankruptcy case on behalf of the Russian state-owned DIA, who bypassed sanction regimes to obtain funds and assets from abroad in order to fund the war in Ukraine.
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