3 months ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$100k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop Anaplan and/or Pigment solutions with functional and technical teams
- Implement budgets, forecasts, workforce models, reports, and dashboards within CPM environments
- Provide technical guidance on design, model architecture, configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization
- Gather and document client business requirements and translate them into platform functionality
- Lead or participate in client workshops to define implementation strategies and future-state planning processes
- Configure and customize client environments, develop proof of concepts, and present sustainable solutions to executives and stakeholders
- Support connected planning use cases across FP&A, workforce planning, sales planning, supply chain, incentive compensation, and scenario modeling
- Attend pre-sales meetings to assess project scope and level of effort
- Supervise, mentor, and develop junior consultants and business analysts
- Provide customer service and serve as the primary project-related resource for clients
Requirements
- Minimum 4–6+ years of systems consulting or CPM model development experience, including multiple full lifecycle implementations
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- Strong Anaplan experience is required
- Pigment experience and hands-on Anaplan or Pigment model-building experience are strongly preferred
- Strong financial planning, FP&A, and/or management accounting background
- Understanding of connected planning concepts such as budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, driver-based planning, and scenario analysis
- Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into scalable CPM solutions
- Strong analytical, communication, presentation, client relationship, organization, and prioritization skills
- Experience integrating ERP, CRM, HCM, and related source systems
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Willingness to travel to client sites as needed
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week
- Role can be based in any US office location, ideally local to the desired location
- Travel to client sites as needed
- Benefits and bonus included
- Not eligible for immigration sponsorship
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Accordion
Accordion is a privately held consulting firm serving private equity firms and their portfolio companies. It provides strategic finance, accounting, FP&A, transaction execution, performance improvement, and data/technology and AI enablement services through project-based and ongoing advisory engagements. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the firm works across the investment lifecycle to strengthen CFO organizations and finance operations.