Senior Applications Engineer, Anaplan

at  Robinhood

JOIN A LEADING FINTECH COMPANY THAT’S DEMOCRATIZING FINANCE FOR ALL.

Robinhood Markets was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood and its subsidiaries and affiliates are lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

WITH GROWTH AS THE TOP PRIORITY…

The business is seeking curious, growth-minded thinkers to help shape our vision, structures and systems; playing a key-role as we launch into our ambitious future. If you’re invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world — we’d love to have you apply.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ year or more experience of efficiently implementing Anaplan solutions as Solution Architect or Model Builder on 8 or more Anaplan implementation projects
• Anaplan “Certified Solution Architect” or “Certified Master Anaplanner”
• Advanced Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and financial modelling skills
• Willingness to learn and use new technologies and touch any system to accomplish your goals
• Extremely data-driven. You instrument and analyze everything about your systems
• Strong communication skills and presentation skills
• Finance, MIS background or any other relevant fields of study
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  We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in democratizing finance for all. If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission—we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we’re looking for people invigorated by our mission, values, and drive to change the world, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
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ABOUT THE TEAM + ROLE

Robinhood is looking for a Sr. Anaplan Applications Engineer to lend their expertise to lead several Anaplan projects and production support activities. As a senior team member, you will partner with different Robinhood departments, collecting requirements, building models, generating reports, and supervising engineering tasks for our crucial F&S applications. In addition, you will ensure that the Anaplan architecture and governance align with strategic business initiatives, company goals, and the mission to democratize finance for all. This role is an excellent opportunity to join the team as a founding member and help build out the Financial Planning Engineering team Robinhood.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead the technical roadmap for Anaplan functionality
• Work closely to partner and establish relationships with leadership across F&S, finance, engineering, and TAFR, as well as vendors and external partners
• Collaborate with various functions, adapting to different requirements, and offer expertise to the FP&A team regarding effective modelling and reporting techniques.
• Lead the priorities and activities for a small team of engineers.
• Provide training and coaching for Jr. Engineers
• Resolve critical issues on JIRA tickets for Access, Enhancements, and Integration failures
• Translate existing solutions, spreadsheets, and business problems into Anaplan multi-dimensional models
• Design Anaplan integrations with Oracle Cloud Services and Workday
• Work closely together with teams and share expertise to ensure product success
• Enhance skills beyond the core functional focus and work on other tasks for the benefit of the team
• Produces, maintains and conducts test plans for user acceptance testing for new functionality and defect resolution; regression testing and testing of fixes to defects in releases.
• Assess business requirements, evaluating possible solutions and then implementing and/or recommending solutions
• Perform Proof of Concept exercises to test and evaluate various design ideas and demonstrate functionality to business partners
• Creating and maintaining standards, procedures, and documentation related to areas of responsibility. May participate in system audits and perform testing for disaster recovery or SOX controls, ensuring a secure processing environment that protects the integrity and availability of information
• Partner with F&S to identify process improvements and coordinate with teams to identify MVP product for each phases
• Establish operating model/ownership of Anaplan activities to maintain the application and product engagement
• Participate in SOX discussions to make Anaplan a compliant financial reporting tool
• Participate in requirement gathering and user story development
• Participate in data integration and migration solutions
• Create UAT test cases & scripts, participate in UAT deployment
• Supervise the progress of projects and work across IT and F&S Team
• Triage issue log of PROD reported issues and assign work accordingly
• Keep customers, partners, and team members informed about project progress on a weekly basis.
• Share knowledge and train partner organizations on standard methodologies for feature usage.