Senior Associate_Anaplan_Finance Transformation

At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals. In enterprise performance management at PwC, you will focus on helping clients improve their financial performance and decision-making processes. You will analyse financial data, develop performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), and design and implement performance management frameworks. You will be responsible for providing guidance on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes to drive operational efficiency and achieve strategic objectives.

Competency Overview: Finance Transformation

The Finance Transformation team works closely with client and project teams in the US to help CFOs and their finance organizations identify, design, and implement programs that transform their Finance functions to meet today’s demanding requirements while continuing to provide valuable insights to the business.

We work across industries with strengths in core operational areas, such as:

• Finance strategy
• Finance and accounting operations improvement
• Finance integration and transaction support
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Digital in Finance
  
  

Our finance consultants help clients optimize all elements of their finance organization, including operating model design, sustainable cost reduction, financial planning and analysis, shared service advisory including RPA, deal transaction support, post deal integration, cash forecasting, and full scale finance transformation. This high performing team helps CFOs identify, design and implement programs that transform their finance function to meet today’s demanding requirements while continuing to provide value added insights to the

business.

Key Responsibilities

As a team member, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific areas of focus include but are not limited to:

• Understanding clients’ business processes and business requirements
• Translating requirements into functional requirements and user stories
• Build and maintain Anaplan models, apps based on model blueprint and support planning processes activities
• Configure and maintain lists, modules, dashboards/New UX pages/Apps, actions, and other model settings to meet business needs
• Transform and implement multi-dimensional structures to support business processes
• Implement high quality models using best practices
• Define and administer user roles in Anaplan
• Provide hands-on training to end users on Anaplan models and processes
  
  

Desired Skills

• Expert skills of Anaplan modeling
• Ability to optimize the Anaplan Models for performance
• Anaplan Certified Model Builder (Level 1 + Level 2 + The Anaplan way and Level 3)
• Strong expertise and deep understanding of multi-dimensional modeling
• Moderate skills of Excel spreadsheet modelling, macros, pivot tables, formulas, charts etc.
• Ability to translate from model-building in Excel to multi-dimensional technologies.
• Strong understanding of Data Integrations (preferred)
• Strong client facing skills
• Must be organized and detail oriented
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work in a demanding, fast-paced environment and manage a high workload
• A strong business acumen in FP&A & Sales Planning for various industries is preferred
  
  

Knowledge Required

An ideal candidate for the Finance Transformation practice of PwC Advisory Acceleration Center should be proficient in one or more of the below:

• Demonstrate working knowledge in any of the areas of finance, management accounting, reporting, shared services and / or knowledge in any sector
• Have strong business acumen, with an ability to understand how business processes and decisions impact people and organization
• Ability to conduct walkthroughs, workshops and meetings involving various business stakeholders
• Good to have exposure to one of technology being ERPs / financial systems such as Oracle, SAP, Workday, etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of products such as PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Word etc.
• Working knowledge of any Digital Tools and accelerators such Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau, UiPath etc. would be an added advantage
• Experience in manipulating data sets using SQL or another programming/scripting language.
  
  

Educational Background

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Business, Management Information Systems, or a related field
  
  

Additional Information

• Line of Service: Consulting Solutions
• Horizontal: Finance Transformation
• Past Experience: 2 - 3 years of prior relevant post - qualification work experience (exposure to minimum 1-2 end-to-end Anaplan implementations)

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