Technical Support Engineer

About Us

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, Specialized and Zappos rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at planful.com.

Why Join Planful?

Our team is full of highly experienced and passionate individuals who are dedicated to continuously making our product and technology the best in the financial planning space. Apart from working with fantastic people and customers every day we also have some awesome benefits too. 

Responsibilities:

• Planful is seeking a qualified Technical Support Engineer to join our world class Technical Support Team. This individual will join our support team based at Hyderabad, India.
• This individual will work with our valued customers to provide world class solutions to meet their requirements.
• They will also train our customers, colleagues and partners as well as collaborating with internal team members to provide exceptional service for everyone.
• Work with customers to provide best practice solutions to their requirements .
• Continuously enhance knowledge and skills in the areas of problem solving, effective communication, Planful product functionality, accounting and planning.
• Job involves supporting Planful Enterprise Performance Management Software Suite in the areas of budgeting & planning, financial consolidations, Modelling, financial reporting and scorecard / dashboards.
• Candidate will be required to work with our global customers, Planful Support and Pre-sales consulting teams in the United States and India.
• Closely collaborate with Product Development & QA teams in India on product requirements and issues.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or equivalent experience in Finance, Business or Computing field.
• Experience of working with software as a service based product/application support for supporting US based accounts would be preferred.
• 3-5 yrs of experience in supporting EMP Suite (Oracle Hyperion, SAP etc) or good FP&A related support experience would be needed.
• Experience of working with MS Office, especially with Excel would be preferred.
• Excellent communication (both oral & written) and presentation skills. – Absolutely Important.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• .Net/SQL scripting knowledge would be nice to have.

Professional Attributes:

• Customer focus: The successful candidate will have an indomitable (external and internal) customer focus.
• Strong work ethic: He or she will reject setbacks and will enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved. He or she will be resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges in a sustainable, proactive fashion.
• Passionate commitment to the company and your profession: Champions projects and the company’s needs and implements a model of continuous improvement in both company goals and project-related tasks.
• Problem solver: Should be a strong, analytical problem solver with a strong attention to detail.
• Accountability: He or she should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds himself accountable for performance, takes absolute ownership, and champions all aspects of initiatives. Entrepreneurship, sense of urgency: The successful candidate will possess a highenergy level which allows them to react to situations quickly and decisively, possessing self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position, not afraid to make decisions.
• Flexibility and adaptability: Should be able to switch gears in various high-stress situations and apply him or herself to quickly learning new technologies and adopting new methodologies.

Why Planful
Planful exists to enrich the world by helping our customers and our people achieve peak performance. To foster the best in class work we’re so proud of, we’ve created a best in class culture, including: 
• 2 Volunteer days, Birthday PTO, and quarterly company Wellness Days 
• 3 months supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your Maternity/Paternity leave
• Annual Planful Palooza, our in-person, company-wide culture kickoff
• Company-wide Mentorship program with Executive sponsorship of CFO and Manager specific monthly training programs 
• Employee Resource Groups such as Women of Planful, LatinX at Planful, Parents of Planful, and many more. We encourage our teammates to bring their authentic selves to the team, and have full support in creating new ERGs & communities along the way.