Associate Manager - ANAPLAN

The ANAPLAN Manager is responsible to explore, develop and provide Finance with strong planning models for the zone. The planning models have to be standard across the Zone and should cover all areas of planning. Planning areas are : Commercial, Supply, Capex, Cash flow and Target & Size of the Pie calculation. Planning should be performed for monthly forecast, the 1 year plan and the 3 year plan. He is the single point of contact for business and IBS for all ANAPLAN matters.

The ANAPLAN Manager is in charge of the full solution and has to ensure common definitions cross zone. He has to ensure data accuracy and data consistency.

He has the responsibility to leverage the tool capabilities outside Finance and outside the Zone Europe.

- Develop, maintain and elaborate planning models

- Standardisation and simplification of planning processes

- Accelerate planning cycle

- Explore new planning processes

- Ensure accurate and consistent data quality cross zone

- Maintain master data and hierarchies

- Establish and maintain interfaces with applicable reporting tools (Qlik)

- Execute expert role

- Reconciliation of different systems (e.g. BI - SAP - Cognos or BI)

- Tools which can be used easily by business (self-explanatory)

- Tools which can be maintained easily

- Tools which delivers data real-time

- Ensure unique source of truth

- Build strong foundation for the future

- Provide standard planning dashboards and reports not only to finance community but also to Sales (e.g. MACO, Daily Sales Volume) and Supply (e.g. SCFD Reporting)

- Act as expert

- Establish and maintain ANAPLAN Governance (managing the size of the workspace)

- Explore and exploit ANAPLAN capabilities outside Finance

- Act as administrator: granting access, maintaining access

Key dimensions: (headcount, volumes, market share, NNS, VILC, Capex, Cash flow and Ebitda)

Key planning dimensions (currently) for zone are

- MACO

- MACO Indirect

- SCFD

- Volume

- Brand P&L (Customer/Brand visibility)

- Cash Flow

- Capex

- P&L (GTO, TAX, Discounts, NTO, VIC, VLC, FIC, FLC, ZBB, EBITDA)

Key contacts: (internal - external)

- BBP Directors / BBP Commercial / BBP Supply / BBP Capex & Cash flow

- Control Directors / Control

- ZBB Package Owners

- GCC BBP and GCC Control

- Sales

- Supply

- Procurement

- IBS

- External: ANAPLAN

- External: Sonum

- External: Accenture

- External: Infosys