Anaplan Consultant

Zellis Group power exceptional employee experiences by creating AI-enabled HR, workforce management, payroll and benefits products and services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics and people experiences. With over 3,500 colleagues across Europe, UK, India and the Philippines, we have a significant ambition for growth (both organically and through M&A).

 This role will assist in maintaining the current Anaplan landscape, whilst developing enhancements and training the Business Unit Finance teams, Group FP&A, and Central Finance teams to be able to maintain the model longer term. The aim of the role is to make finance teams self-dependent super users of Anaplan and our planning model.

You'll need to have strong experience of Anaplan financial planning models and finance understanding, with a strong ability to support teams in report creation at pace.

•  Working closely with consultants (Bedford Consulting) to finalise implantation of P&L, as well as documenting end-to-end processes that will support team members with training.
• Assisting in the implementation of forecasting models, including balance sheet and cashflows.
• Training and supporting each Finance team super user to increase usage of the platform and raise user confidence.
• Supporting the BI team in creating dynamic reporting dashboards in Power BI for detail analysis.
• Supporting in producing high quality management reporting dashboards.
• Assisting in existing Anaplan model landscape maintenance.
• Assisting with ad-hoc reporting and reconciliations.

• Extensive experience working with Anaplan - maintaining, developing and building Anaplan models as an Anaplan Certified Model Builder.
• Experience of connecting data using Anaplan Connect, Cloudworks and other API tools.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Understanding of management reporting practices to understand requirements in FP&A and other use cases within the wider Finance team.
• Experience of delivering end-to-end use case implementations – from requirements gathering, solution documenting, through to model build and implementation.
• Will ideally have knowledge of integrating with the other systems in our landscape: NetSuite / Snowflake / Power BI.
• Change management and project management skills.
• Ability to articulate technical information to non-technical colleagues.
• Strong numerical, organisational, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage priorities and workload
• Versatility and willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of various teams and committees.
• Working knowledge of data collection, data analysis, evaluation, and problem-solving methods.

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.