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Senior Solution Consultant, Finance and Business Services

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anaplan logoAnaplan · San Francisco
Full-timeOn-site1d ago
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At Anaplan, we help the world's leading enterprises connect data, people, and plans to make faster, more confident decisions. More than 2,400 global customers-including NVIDIA, Generali, and QIC-rely on Anaplan to align strategy, finance, and operations in real time. We are seeking a Senior Solution Consultant to join our Finance & Business Services Presales team. In this role, you will partner with enterprise customers to uncover complex planning challenges, shape enterprise planning transformation strategies, and demonstrate how Anaplan drives measurable business impact. The ideal candidate combines strong consultative skills, executive communication, business process expertise, and a passion for solving complex business problems in collaborative, fast-paced enterprise sales environments.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise prospects across Financial Services and Business Services industries to identify planning inefficiencies, operational challenges, and transformation opportunities.
  • Lead consultative discovery conversations to uncover strategic business drivers, decision-making gaps, and enterprise planning challenges.
  • Design and deliver compelling solution demonstrations, workshops, and value-based presentations tailored to executive and operational audiences.
  • Drive alignment across finance, operations, technology, and executive stakeholders throughout complex sales cycles.
  • Translate complex business and planning challenges into differentiated solution strategies leveraging Anaplan's Connected Planning platform.
  • Articulate the value of AI-enabled planning capabilities, predictive analytics, and scenario modeling to help customers envision practical enterprise use cases.
  • Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Customer Success, Product Management, and Partner teams to develop and execute winning account strategies.
  • Create and enhance repeatable industry solutions, demo assets, and presales best practices to support organizational success.
  • Contribute to industry expertise, competitive positioning, and thought leadership through customer engagements, industry events, and internal enablement initiatives.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in presales, solution consulting, enterprise software, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), or related planning disciplines.
  • Proven experience supporting complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
  • Industry experience within Financial Services, Insurance, Banking, Capital Markets, or other highly regulated environments preferred.
  • Strong consultative discovery and value-selling skills with the ability to connect business challenges to technology solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver impactful executive presentations, facilitate workshops, and conduct tailored solution demonstrations.
  • Experience engaging senior stakeholders, including CFOs, FP&A leaders, Operations leaders, and Transformation executives.
  • Strong understanding of financial planning, operational planning, workforce planning, and sales performance management processes.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, rapidly learn new business domains, and operate effectively in fast-paced enterprise organizations.
  • Experience collaborating across cross-functional sales, product, customer success, and professional services teams.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills preferred.
  • Prior experience with Anaplan or other EPM/platform technologies is a plus.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or a related field preferred.
  • Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
  • We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce,

Benefits

Vision insuranceEquity / stock options

Additional Information

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who's who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins - big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values -based and disciplined in execution, you'll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let's build what's next - together! Senior Solution Consultant - Finance & Business Services (Presales)


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