Groupon
Senior Financial Analyst - Anaplan Model Builder
Groupon, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.
Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.
Want to use your finance and analytical skills to help local businesses around the world thrive?
Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiencesbig and small, new and familiarthat make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationshipsresulting in strong, vibrant communities. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success.
As a
Senior Anaplan Model Builder
on the Anaplan Center of Excellence team, you will play an integral role in the global forecasting, planning, and reporting process. They will be a key member on the Global Finance team based in our Chicago office, with responsibility for Anaplan financial model building, administration, and maintenance. This role partners closely with teams across the finance organization, including FP&A, Commercial Finance, Marketing Finance, & Accounting. They will lead projects that improve process inefficiencies, automate by leveraging technology, and create solutions that deliver value back to the organization. Additionally, this role will provide ad-hoc analysis as needed for senior financial leadership. We are seeking strong analytical skills, an interest in financial data, systems, and processes, along with a desire for consistent personal development. Willingness to dive in head first while improving key technical skills and learning new systems is a requirement.
You'll spend time on the following:
Become a knowledge and technical expert within Anaplan through completion of our best in class internal Anaplan enablement programBecome a knowledge and technical expert in Anaplan's data sources; operational data, financial data, workday, salesforce etcWork with Global FP&A, Commercial Finance, Sales and Financial Systems teams to coordinate the overall architecture, design, development and maintenance of Anaplan applicationsBusiness partnering: you'll work hand-in-hand with teams across different departments to build scalable models for a variety use casesBecome a subject matter expert on existing Anaplan ecosystem and all model intricaciesSystem builder: you'll develop performance dashboards to surface insightsPerform data management tasks, pull data from multiple sources, and create integrations to bring the data automatically into Anaplan leveraging ETL tools like SnaplogicCollaborate with other Anaplan CoE team members to comply with best build practicesAd-hoc deep dives on pressing business issues and using Anaplan model builder expertise for solutionsExpand model ownership and expertise into new use cases over timeDevelop and implement automation routines and data integrations to streamline stakeholder processesJob and Skill Requirements:
This role is hybrid and will require being in the Chicago office to times per weekBachelor's degreeAt least 2 years experience in Finance/Accounting roles or as in systems administrationAbility to learn new systems/processes and quickly ramp up to support thoseYou love collaborating and nurturing partnerships with senior leaders and teamsStrong verbal and written communication skillsHigh comfort level with Microsoft ExcelSystems savvy with a strong desire to transform and simplify processesPreferred Qualifications:
1+ years of experience as an Anaplan model builderAnaplan Model Builder Certification (L1, L2, and Anaplan way complete)You have SQL experienceYou have experience with Topline Revenue Forecast modelingSystem implementation or project management experienceHands on experience with operating in sprint cycles using Agile/Scrum frameworkFull Life Cycle Implementations experienceExtract Transform Load (ETL) tool experienceExperience with NetSuite
Groupon 's purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world's largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that's a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.
Beware of Recruitment Fraud:
Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings (and a sneak peek into life at Groupon), always check our official career website at grouponcareers.com.
Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.
Want to use your finance and analytical skills to help local businesses around the world thrive?
Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiencesbig and small, new and familiarthat make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationshipsresulting in strong, vibrant communities. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success.
As a
Senior Anaplan Model Builder
on the Anaplan Center of Excellence team, you will play an integral role in the global forecasting, planning, and reporting process. They will be a key member on the Global Finance team based in our Chicago office, with responsibility for Anaplan financial model building, administration, and maintenance. This role partners closely with teams across the finance organization, including FP&A, Commercial Finance, Marketing Finance, & Accounting. They will lead projects that improve process inefficiencies, automate by leveraging technology, and create solutions that deliver value back to the organization. Additionally, this role will provide ad-hoc analysis as needed for senior financial leadership. We are seeking strong analytical skills, an interest in financial data, systems, and processes, along with a desire for consistent personal development. Willingness to dive in head first while improving key technical skills and learning new systems is a requirement.
You'll spend time on the following:
Become a knowledge and technical expert within Anaplan through completion of our best in class internal Anaplan enablement programBecome a knowledge and technical expert in Anaplan's data sources; operational data, financial data, workday, salesforce etcWork with Global FP&A, Commercial Finance, Sales and Financial Systems teams to coordinate the overall architecture, design, development and maintenance of Anaplan applicationsBusiness partnering: you'll work hand-in-hand with teams across different departments to build scalable models for a variety use casesBecome a subject matter expert on existing Anaplan ecosystem and all model intricaciesSystem builder: you'll develop performance dashboards to surface insightsPerform data management tasks, pull data from multiple sources, and create integrations to bring the data automatically into Anaplan leveraging ETL tools like SnaplogicCollaborate with other Anaplan CoE team members to comply with best build practicesAd-hoc deep dives on pressing business issues and using Anaplan model builder expertise for solutionsExpand model ownership and expertise into new use cases over timeDevelop and implement automation routines and data integrations to streamline stakeholder processesJob and Skill Requirements:
This role is hybrid and will require being in the Chicago office to times per weekBachelor's degreeAt least 2 years experience in Finance/Accounting roles or as in systems administrationAbility to learn new systems/processes and quickly ramp up to support thoseYou love collaborating and nurturing partnerships with senior leaders and teamsStrong verbal and written communication skillsHigh comfort level with Microsoft ExcelSystems savvy with a strong desire to transform and simplify processesPreferred Qualifications:
1+ years of experience as an Anaplan model builderAnaplan Model Builder Certification (L1, L2, and Anaplan way complete)You have SQL experienceYou have experience with Topline Revenue Forecast modelingSystem implementation or project management experienceHands on experience with operating in sprint cycles using Agile/Scrum frameworkFull Life Cycle Implementations experienceExtract Transform Load (ETL) tool experienceExperience with NetSuite
Groupon 's purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world's largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that's a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.
Beware of Recruitment Fraud:
Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings (and a sneak peek into life at Groupon), always check our official career website at grouponcareers.com.