Job Description

This Business Analyst position is focused on Anaplan, the core tool used for sales compensation, commissions, and territory management. This role will define business requirements to ensure our Anaplan instance is continuously meeting the needs of the business and develop back-end and front-end features in Anaplan following best practices. 

In this role as a Business Analyst, you will:

• Develop a deep understanding of the business and identify/quantify levers that impact the business 

• Maintain existing Anaplan forecast models and ensure that the data is accurate, complete, and available in a timely manner 

• Identify forecasting feature gaps or planning process inefficiencies within the sales organization and translate those needs into model enhancements or new Anaplan model implementations 

• Regularly gather input from end users and other teams to develop, prioritize, and execute business requirements 

• Understand existing databases and warehouse structures in order best determine how to consolidate, aggregate, and utilize data in an efficient and scalable manner 

• Audit model calculations and provide support to end users  

Qualifications

For this role as a Business Analyst you should have:  

• 2+ years of relevant experience as an Anaplan model developer. 

• 5+ years of relevant experience as a business analyst, gathering data requirements, developing metrics and reports, using data insights to support business cases, planning, and decisions. 

• Experience with sales compensation models and/or administration. 

• Experience with an end-to-end Anaplan system implementation (requirements gathering, design, build/test, deploy, support). 

• L1, L2, and L3 Anaplan Model Building Certified. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics or other business/analytical disciplines or equivalent experience. 

• Master Anaplanner or Anaplan Solutions Architect Certification. 

• Experience in BI design and development, UI/UX best practices. 

• Experience with PowerBI or other BI tools and developing dashboards. 

• Experience writing and debugging SQL queries with large-scale, complex data sets in a business setting. 

• Experience with Salesforce, Netsuite