Principal Business Systems Administrator ( Anaplan Architect & Builder)
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves liaising with business and technical teams to assess, build, and optimize business processes and systems, including functional configuration, system maintenance, and production support. The administrator designs and deploys high-quality solutions, manages data cleanliness, and supports data ingestion into Anaplan, ensuring maximum benefit from system investments. They work cross-functionally to improve processes and provide user access administration in a controlled environment.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position, offering flexibility in work location without specific time zone restrictions mentioned. Career growth is supported through opportunities to design and optimize business solutions and work with key stakeholders. The role emphasizes a collaborative culture, with involvement in Agile frameworks and ITIL best practices, fostering professional development in a dynamic team setting.
Full Job Description
Principal, Business Systems Administrator ( Anaplan Architect & Builder )
Job Summary
This role serves as a key Anaplan architect and builder, partnering closely with Finance, Operations, and other business stakeholders to design, build, optimize, and support scalable Anaplan solutions. The position is responsible for translating business requirements into well-architected and efficient Anaplan models, assessing scope and impacts of enhancement requests, and providing ongoing production and administrative support to maximize the value of Anaplan investments.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience in Anaplan model design and optimization, strong system administration capabilities, and a proven ability to improve and automate business planning processes through connected, high-performing Anaplan models.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Architect, design, build, enhance, and optimize Anaplan models to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics use cases.
Analyze existing Anaplan model implementations and refactor inefficiencies related to performance, scalability, sparsity, or model architecture.
Transform manual, spreadsheet-based, and offline business processes into streamlined, scalable Anaplan solutions.
Apply Anaplan best practices including DISCO, modular model design, and performance optimization techniques.
Create and maintain detailed solution documentation including model designs, process flows, data flows, and assumptions.
Serve as an Anaplan Administrator, managing user access, roles, model security, and workspace governance in a controlled production environment.
Provide ongoing production support, troubleshooting model issues, data discrepancies, and performance concerns.
Design, build, and manage data ingestion and integration processes into Anaplan from upstream and downstream systems.
Manage data hygiene, structure, and consistency across Anaplan models, including duplication and master data alignment.
Partner with business and technical teams to assess scope, timelines, and impacts of new Anaplan requests and enhancements.
Clearly communicate insights, model outputs, and implementation plans to cross-functional teams and leadership.
Evaluate existing business processes and uncover areas for improvement.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in Business, Accounting, Finance, IT or related field preferred.
5+ years of experience with design, build out, and maintenance of Anaplan data models
Anaplan Certified Model Builder certification
Anaplan Architect preferred
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively and present in front of key stakeholders
Strong knowledge of financial modeling and data integration.
Self-starter with demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, handle and prioritize simultaneous requests.
Some knowledge or previous experience with Salesforce, NetSuite a plus
Experience with managing work within Agile frameworks.
Experience with ITIL or other best practice process frameworks a plus
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