Role : Sr. Anaplan Consultant (JD Attached)
Location : Seattle, WA (Remote)
Position type : Contract
Mandatory Skills : Anaplan, ALM, FP&A, Required Model Builder Certificate Level 3/Solution Architect. (Certification Mandatory)
Level 2 certification is fine for senior Genuine candidates.
Job description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Techno‑Functional Consultant with strong expertise in Anaplan. The ideal candidate will combine hands‑on technical Model building and testing skills with a deep understanding of enterprise business planning, data flows, integration touchpoints, and end‑to‑end validation across planning models and enterprise data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
1. Anaplan Functional & Technical Validation
- Review business user requirements and user stories to create comprehensive test scenarios.
- Validate Anaplan modules, lists, hierarchies, actions, and processes.
- Test model‑to‑model, model‑to‑data hub, model-to-target system integrations (Anaplan Connect, APIs, Airflow, etc.).
- Perform regression, UAT, and performance testing on planning cycles and connected planning workflows.
- Lead end‑to‑end QA strategy for user stories.
- Maintain test plans, traceability matrices, test execution reports, and defect management.
- Work closely with product owners, planners, data engineers, and developers to ensure high‑quality releases.
- Drive quality reviews, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvements.
Preferred
- Test REST APIs, microservices, and integration layers connected to Anaplan or downstream systems.
- Conduct schema checks, data integrity validation, reconciliation, and lineage verification.
- Validate data ingestion, transformation, and processing across ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Databricks etc).
Required Skills & Competencies
Functional Skills
- Strong understanding of planning processes: FP&A / supply chain planning / workforce planning / sales planning, or related domains.
- Ability to translate business rules into test cases and validate model behavior.
Technical Skills (Mandatory)
- Anaplan: model structures, formulas, actions/processes, imports/exports, ALM, UX testing.
- QA: functional and technical testing, APIs, data ingestions, scheduled jobs etc
- Anaplan (Model Builder L3 and above)
Tools (preferred)
- Jira, AWS, ALM, GitHub, Sharepoint, Teams
- Snowflakes/Azure/AWS certification
- Python, PyTest, Postman, Selenium
- Knowledge of data quality frameworks
- Exposure to analytics platforms (Power BI/Tableau)
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Commerce, Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or related fields
