Solution Architect, Planful
DACH
€75-110k
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Cloud FP&A Platform for Continuous Planning
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Cloud FP&A Platform for Continuous Planning
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
€75-110k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Planful was founded to speed up the end-to-end financial planning and analysis process, driven by a vision of continuous planning. It fosters business-wide participation in decision-making and planning, optimising how employees navigate their organisation through frequent and complex business changes.
Role
Who you are
- Planful is looking for a Solution Architect, DACH, with strong technical aptitude and passion for working with customers during the deployment process
- The successful candidate must work well in a team environment while being a resourceful, independent self-starter
- Candidates must have the ability to travel at least 25% of the time
- Must be based out of Germany
- 5+ years of Accounting or FP&A experience focusing on financial reporting and budgeting and /or close management as well as experience dealing with multi-currency environments
- Hands-on experience with financial planning, close management, reporting and analysis
- Advanced Excel skills are essential
- Experience with enterprise planning systems
- Executive presence to interact with senior-level executives
- Customer-centric with a strong sense of urgency for customer care
- Consultative style
- Strong project management, problem-solving skills and analytical skills
- Extremely organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Prior consulting experience; experience at an EPM software company or EPM partner consulting organization is a huge plus
- Working with startup SaaS companies is a plus
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director of Delivery Services, EMEA, you will be the functional lead on our implementation projects, assuming responsibility for the customer specific application design and providing oversight to the team during the application configuration, testing, knowledge transfer and rollout activities
- Manage multiple concurrent customer implementations
- Function as the project functional/technical lead and lead a team of consultants and customer staff in the delivery of a value added solution to the customer
- Function as a mentor to the Planful Professional Services delivery team for solutioning best practice of large, complex projects to account for overarching Planful architecture, performance and scalability, and change management impacts
- Follow Planful’s Agile Deployment Approach to lead discovery workshops, prototype and validate solutions with our customers to develop a solid solution supporting customer requirements
- Proven architecture experience in defining, designing and implementing integrated architectures for complex planning, reporting and analytic solutions
- Deep experience as a solution architect in the Finance functional vertical. 2-3 other functional competencies are a plus (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Distribution, Professional Services)
- Working knowledge of process architecture to know how to design technology/data architectures to support ‘to-be’ process designs
- Change management experience to support the deployment and adoption activities of solutions
- Be cognizant of project economics and metrics to deliver on-time and on budget projects
- Be a trusted adviser and subject matter expert to customers in areas such as change management, business process design and redesign, process improvements and analytics
- Work with Planful’s Sales team to sell success, share customer use cases at customer meetings, selling services, leading scoping discussions and developing/presenting services proposals
- Lean on a strong accounting and or finance background as well as experience implementing and managing planning and consolidation applications
- Learn the Planful product and deployment best practice
- Contribute to and improve the Services team’s best practice methodology and library
Our take
Planful is driven by the conviction that continuous planning elevates the financial IQ of all parties involved. It rebranded in 2020 from 'Host Analytics' to reflect this fundamental focus on continuous planning being central to Planful's identity.
Currently, most financial institutions only have quarterly or even annual planning reviews, meaning they have to rely on outdated budget projections & financial metrics so they lag behind the curve. Planful sets itself apart through helping clients to use monthly, weekly, or more frequent cycles. This means businesses can adapt and innovate rapidly in response to events and help drive financial innovation.
Planful’s cloud financial planning and analysis solutions stand out as it delivers 90% reduced reporting time, and up to 75% reduced average time to close. This approach has led to Planful being trusted by hundreds of big-name brands, including Five Guys, Evernote, Boston Red Sox, Robinhood, and TGI Fridays, as well as hundreds of thousands of users across the world.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2020
$6.7m
SEED
Nov 2014
$25m
SERIES E
Total funding: $95.3m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks fully paid parent leave
- Flexible working hours
- Full medical, dental, vision benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Customers
- Teams
- Ownership
- Excellence
- Progress
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Leadership
Grant Halloran
(CEO, not Founder)Having spent over 8 years at ANZ , Grant went onto cco-found ProductBank and Brand Manager. In 2007, he went onto become CEO of Orbis for 5 years. Since then, Grant has worked at Anaplan as CMO and OmniSci as CCO.
People progressing
Samantha joined Planful as HR & Admin Coordinator in May 2015 after working in HR for Moschip Semiconductor and Cyient. Since May 2022, she has served as Human Resources Operations Manager.
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