FP&A Anaplan Manager

We’re excited about your interest in pursuing the next step in your career with US Foods!  Your continuous growth and development is critical to our success.  

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This position has been segmented as Remote Anywhere meaning the work is completed 100% remote anywhere in the U.S. except Hawaii or United States Territories.

Responsibilities:

• Key member of the Finance Anaplan Admin Support Team driving connected financial planning solutions

• Drive technical architecture and design process, prototyping, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, training, defining support procedures and supporting implementations.

• Evaluate new design specifications and raise quality standards, address architectural concerns

• Translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems to build and execute sophisticated Anaplan multi-dimensional models

• Modify existing models as part of a connected solution, optimization, or to incorporate new functionality

• Provide candid, important feedback and progress updates in a timely manner to the Business Partners and Anaplan SMEs

• Create and run financial reports using PeopleSoft, Anaplan, and other relevant software packages on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis. 

• A proven resource in enabling systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines

• Exercise independent judgement within defined policies and procedures to determine appropriate action as well as lead a small team to an outcome while being a role model for your team of model builders to deliver value-add, and sustainable solutions

• Make a significant hands-on contribution to the development of the optimization products

• Develop model documentation and ensure adherence to company standards

• Author, document and maintain the associated code base and unit tests and adhere to the industry standard coding practices

• Lead data integration, migration solutions, as well as UAT testing and deployment of designed solutions

• Proactively prioritize projects, manage customer expectations, and organizing the team's effort and effectiveness

• Serve as a source of technical expertise and a mentor across development teams

Relationships:

• Internal: Functional Finance Teams (Sales Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Broadline Support Business Finance, and Field Finance), IT, Other Anaplan Users

• External: N/A

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5-8 years’ experience building relevant system models 

• Advanced Microsoft Excel / financial modelling skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology – requirements gathering, design, build/test, training, change management and deployment (Agile methodology preferable)

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• 1+ years Anaplan experience

• Shown ability to lead and execute responsibilities simultaneously, with a “roll-up your sleeves” approach

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, MIS, or Computer Science.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Domain expertise in planning and modelling in Finance

• Passion for business analytics, modelling and planning

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• Results-oriented, motivated, self-driven

This role will also receive an annual incentive plan bonus.

​Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state or local minimum wage thresholds).  The expected base rate for this role is between

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