Anaplan FP&A Manager

Employment Type: Full-Time 

Ideal Location: New York, NY / Chicago, IL / Toronto-CA

 KEYRUS EPM Americas delivers world-class Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions leveraging Anaplan’s most advanced capabilities. As an Anaplan FP&A Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of large-scale, complex planning programs, combining strong project leadership, FP&A domain expertise, solution governance, and a robust understanding of the Anaplan platform.

This role is 70% focused on delivery excellence, ensuring high-quality implementations, client satisfaction, and team development, and 30% focused on FP&A practice growth through pre-sales activities, solution shaping, and practice enablement.

The Anaplan FP&A Manager’s primary responsibility is to manage a portfolio of clients as the engagement lead. In this role, you will oversee delivery teams who are implementing financial planning solutions in Anaplan. As the engagement lead, you will be responsible for the overall success of the delivery. As an FP&A subject matter expert, you will also play a lead role in ensuring that the Anaplan solutions being designed are anchored to business outcomes and rooted in FP&A best practices. The right candidate will have prior consulting experience leading the delivery of FP&A solutions in Anaplan, as well as a professional background in corporate FP&A.

Responsibilities of the Anaplan FP&A Manager Include:

· Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise Anaplan FP&A programs, ensuring scope, schedule, and quality adherence.

· Lead the business requirements phase by driving future state business process design activities and applying FP&A best practices

· Manage project governance, risk, and delivery teams across multiple workstreams and clients.

· Partner hand in hand with a dedicated solution architect to ensure solutions are designed with modeling best practices.

· Manage client relationships at executive and operational levels, ensuring satisfaction and retention.

· Coach and mentor consultants and project managers to foster growth and delivery capability within the FP&A practice.

· Support business development opportunities by contributing to proposals, scoping, RFP responses, and pre-sales demos.

· Participate in Keyrus and Anaplan events as a thought leader or presenter.

· Collaborate with the Delivery Leadership Team to continuously improve delivery standards, QA, and methodology adoption.

· Monitor project profitability, team utilization, and client satisfaction KPIs.

· Displays knowledge leadership and experience in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) domain – with a specific focus on FP&A

· Develop and maintain relationships with existing and new clients to identify expansion opportunities and create long-term relationships

· Demonstrate technical knowledge for EPM software implementations, including multidimensional solutions, general architecture, and functionalities

· Be able to validate priorities, scope, timeline, goals, and key milestones for complex projects

· Maintain customer focus and demonstrate leadership to drive consensus and strategic decisions

· Communicate well, both written and orally, at all levels ‐ executive, managerial, technical, and client

Required Qualifications:

· Minimum 10–12 years combined in Corporate FP&A and Anaplan FP&A delivery

· At least 5 years of experience delivering Anaplan programs focused on FP&A

· Prior professional background in Corporate FP&A

· Deep functional understanding of Anaplan and its latest product offerings (Polaris, Forecaster, Integrated Financial Planning application, etc.)

· Demonstrated success in client delivery management, governance, and stakeholder communication.

· Experience with Agile delivery frameworks and modern PMO tools.

· Bachelor’s degree in finance or Economics

· Excellent English communication and leadership skills.

· Prior and proven experience managing Anaplan delivery teams of 5-10 individuals (client team consulting team)

· Prior experience in business development by providing sales support including contribution to RFPs and conducting demo sessions for prospective clients

· Demonstrated organizational and prioritization skills

· Background in financial/multi-dimensional modeling, analytics, or business intelligence

· Ability to develop relationships with key partners at Keyrus, Clients, and Vendors to build a strong network of continued growth

· Ability to succeed in different company environments and build relationships with ease

Desired Qualifications:

· Anaplan Solution Architect or Master Anaplanner Certification.

· Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Business Administration

· Prior experience within the following verticals: SaaS, Technology, Life Sciences, Healthcare, CPG / Retail

· Thought leadership, such as publications or presentations in select industries or use cases

About Keyrus

Keyrus is a global consultancy with more than 3,500 employees that develops data and digital solutions for performance management. Its enterprise performance management (EPM) practice includes 175 colleagues across 18 countries on five continents, with more than 200 Anaplan successful clients across 30 countries. An end-to-end services partner, its international team of consultants and experts helps clients drive transformational change and maximize value capture and creation.

Accredited as a Solution Advisory & Delivery Partner under Anaplan’s Partner Accelerate program, Keyrus has demonstrated Anaplan expertise across industries such as financial & business services, technology, media and telecom, manufacturing, and consumer goods, as well as for business functions including finance, sales and marketing, supply chain and operations, and HR.

Translating experience into innovative planning solutions, Keyrus has delivered compelling workforce planning solutions on the Anaplan platform, including contact center planning, operational workforce planning, and strategic workforce planning for several of the largest companies in the US.