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This role will focus on Dominion Energy's program administration of Anaplan and will serve as one of our subject matter experts responsible for the development, maintenance, troubleshooting, training and oversight for Anaplan across the company. 
This senior level role is established in the Finance function and supports CFO organization personnel while working with key IT partners. 

Responsibilities include:

• Identifying key financial processes throughout the CFO organization to improve around budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and financial reporting;
• Devising or modifying existing processes to solve the most complex financial processes to enhance business strategies and outcomes;
• Assuming a lead role on multiple technology projects simultaneously, managing responsibilities accordingly, and providing outstanding customer support to internal CFO groups;
• Applying technologies to improve financial business processes through researching solutions and collaborating with other CFO team members to address their pain points;
• Building automation for business and financial processes utilizing technology solutions such as Alteryx, PowerQuery, PowerPivot, Power BI, SQL Query, Snowflake, python, VBA or other solutions; 
• Using data engineering concepts and familiarity with ETL techniques and tools like Alteryx, Talend, Microsoft SSIS, Apache Airflow, etc. to automate financial processes;
• Building data pipelines from key financial systems like SAP and budgeting software (like Anaplan) to build reports in visualization tools like Power BI, and building data pipelines to reduce manual work of sharing information throughout the organization;
• Building dynamic 3 financial statement projection models; 
• Pairing data engineering, data transformation, data manipulation, ETL solutions, data science, decision analytics, and data visualization skills with their financial acumen and understanding of financial processes to build solutions for other less technical analysts;
• Participating in industry organizations and specialized technology user groups to stay abreast of best practice business and technology processes, and sharing such knowledge with the team;
• Proficiently communicating with finance leaders, documenting business needs, and establishing best data practices across the CFO organization;
• Partnering with leaders across the CFO organization and IT personnel to deliver solutions and business outcomes.

5+ years of related experience (At least 2+ years of directly related experience working with Anaplan is required).
 

• Anaplan certifications such as Professional Anaplan Model Builder, Associate Anaplan Model Builder, and Professional Anaplan Solutions Architect are a plus;
• Finance experience or education needed;
• Excellent understanding of GAAP and accounting concepts;
• Strong technical knowledge and experience such as systems design/integration/automation, large-scale data gathering/manipulation/integration, database design/integration, proficiency with ERP and other financial systems, proficiency with budgeting software;
• In-depth experience in building dashboards and automation solutions for internal customers using tools such as Power BI, Power Query, Alteryx, Python, VBA, and SQL;
• Direct experience in key financial processes such as forecasting, budgeting, and historical variance analysis;
• Proficiency in building 3 financial statement projections models;
• Demonstrated competency in verbal and written communications and interpersonal understanding, including the ability to communicate with and provide solutions and support to less technical financial analysts;
• Excellent ability to research and understand financial customer and technology business requirements;
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust, as this role supports all CFO functions;
• Ability to manage the most complex level of work and perform varied duties simultaneously;
• Experience in mentoring and developing talent of less experienced analysts;
• Ability to analyze problems and think logically and innovatively;
• Achievement orientation;
• Flexible, self-starter;
• Ability to work under deadlines

Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education: Bachelor

Preferred Discipline(s):  Finance, Accounting, Data Science, Computer Science, Data Analytics

Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) above.

No Testing Required