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Shield AI is seeking a Senior Anaplan Solutions Architect to set technical direction and lead connected planning for Corporate FP&A. In our lean team, you will be both architect and hands-on builder, independently guiding complex design decisions while coaching FP&A colleagues toward greater self-sufficiency. You will help advance an autonomous, continuously updated forecast grounded in business drivers, robust data, and validated machine-learning inputs, freeing Finance partners to advise the business and giving leaders timely projections. Architect and build connected models for financial statements, workforce, allocations, annual planning, and long-range scenarios. Shape the planning architecture and roadmap with Finance leaders, balancing business value, scalability, and delivery capacity. Establish design standards and resolve cross-model dependencies to keep planning solutions intuitive, performant, and maintainable. Coach FP&A users and builders to own more of their analysis, scenarios, and model development. Integrate trusted enterprise data and predictive outputs into Anaplan, partnering with data and analytics engineers. Advance continuously refreshed, driver-based forecasting with clear reconciliation, review, and override controls. Provide technical leadership to builders and implementation partners, owning solution quality, acceptance, and knowledge transfer. Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years, including hands-on Anaplan Extensive hands-on Anaplan experience with a record of architecting and delivering complex connected planning solutions. Deep understanding of Corporate FP&A and the judgment to translate Finance priorities into architectural decisions. Demonstrated ability to independ
Extracted skills: finance, fp&a, operations