Financial Consolidations Consultant (Anaplan)

Seeking an experienced Anaplan Financial Consolidations Consultant to support the implementation of a large-scale financial consolidation solution for a complex group environment.

The successful candidate will operate across both the functional and technical aspects of the implementation, working directly with stakeholders to understand business requirements, translate finance and consolidation requirements into an Anaplan solution, and take ownership of the solution through design, build, integration and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

·        Lead business requirements gathering sessions with finance and business stakeholders.

·        Analyse, document and obtain client sign-off on functional and technical requirements.

·        Design and build financial consolidation solutions within Anaplan.

·        Configure and develop Anaplan models to support complex group consolidation requirements.

·        Translate financial consolidation processes and business requirements into scalable Anaplan solutions.

·        Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues throughout the implementation and build phases.

·        Support integrations between Anaplan and surrounding finance, ERP and other enterprise systems.

·        Work with stakeholders to understand data flows, interfaces and integration requirements.

·        Interpret and apply IFRS and GAAP requirements within the consolidation solution.

·        Support consolidation across large groups of entities, including multi-currency environments.

·        Facilitate workshops, solution discussions, design sessions and playback sessions with customers.

·        Lead customer engagements through requirements, design, build, testing and implementation.

·        Provide functional and technical guidance throughout the full project lifecycle.

·        Assist with testing, issue resolution, user acceptance and solution readiness.

·        Produce relevant solution and technical documentation.

·        Act as a subject matter expert on Anaplan-based financial consolidation.

Essential Requirements

·        Proven experience implementing Financial Consolidation solutions using Anaplan.

·        Strong hands-on Anaplan development and solution design experience.

·        Demonstrable experience working across both functional and technical requirements.

·        Experience delivering consolidation solutions for large or complex groups of entities.

·        Strong understanding of IFRS and GAAP consolidation requirements.

·        Experience with multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation.

·        Strong business requirements gathering and documentation experience.

·        Ability to independently lead client workshops and solution discussions.

·        Experience troubleshooting technical issues during solution implementation.

·        Experience with Anaplan integrations and integration with other enterprise/finance systems.

·        Strong stakeholder and client-facing communication skills.

·        Ability to take ownership of a solution from requirements through to implementation.

Advantageous

·        Previous experience working within large corporate or multinational group environments.

·        Experience integrating Anaplan with ERP/finance platforms.

·        Anaplan certifications.

·        Previous consulting experience.

·        Experience delivering end-to-end financial transformation or consolidation programmes.

Qualifications

·        Degree or relevant qualification in Finance, Accounting, Financial Management or a related discipline preferred.

·        Relevant Anaplan qualifications/certifications advantageous.

·        Professional accounting qualification or equivalent financial consolidation experience advantageous.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Anaplan Financial Consolidations specialist who combines strong finance and consolidation knowledge with practical Anaplan solution design and development capability. They should be comfortable engaging directly with senior finance stakeholders, translating complex requirements into a working solution, and resolving both functional and technical challenges throughout implementation.