
Anaplan Solution Architect
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Financial Planning And Analysis
-Develop Annual Budget: Create a comprehensive budget for the upcoming fiscal year, including revenue projections, expense forecasts, and capital expenditure plans. -Prepare Monthly Variance Reports: Analyze actual financial performance against the budget, highlighting key variances, and provide insights/recommendations to stakeholders. -Conduct Scenario Analysis: Build financial models to evaluate best-case, worst-case, and most-likely scenarios for strategic decision-making. -Create Cash Flow Forecast: Deliver a 12-month rolling cash flow projection to ensure liquidity and support investment decisions. -Design KPI Dashboard: Develop a financial performance dashboard with key metrics (e.g., EBITDA, ROI, net profit margin) for executive review.
Sale and Operational Planning
-Generate Demand Forecast: Produce a 6-month demand plan based on historical sales data, market trends, and input from the sales team. -Align Inventory with Sales Goals: Deliver an inventory optimization plan to balance stock levels with forecasted demand and minimize overstock/understock. -Facilitate S&OP Meeting: Prepare and present a monthly S&OP report to align sales, operations, and finance teams on production and sales targets. -Develop Capacity Plan: Assess operational capacity and provide a deliverables schedule to meet projected sales volumes. -Create Sales Performance Report: Analyze sales trends by region, product, or channel and recommend adjustments to improve performance.
Supply Chain management
-Optimize Supplier Lead Times: Analyze current supplier performance and deliver a plan to reduce lead times by a target percentage (e.g., 10%). Implement Cost Reduction Initiative: Identify and execute a project to lower transportation or warehousing costs, with a detailed report on savings achieved. -Design Supply Chain Risk Assessment: Deliver a risk mitigation plan addressing potential disruptions (e.g., geopolitical, weather-related, supplier failure). -Streamline Logistics Workflow: Map current logistics processes and propose a revised workflow to improve delivery times by a specific metric (e.g., 2 days). -Develop Sustainability Report: Assess the carbon footprint of the supply chain and recommend actionable steps to reduce environmental impact.
Data Integration
-Build Data Pipeline: Design and implement an automated data pipeline to integrate disparate data sources (e.g., ERP, CRM) into a centralized system. -Create Data Quality Framework: Deliver a set of standards and processes to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness across systems. -Develop Integrated Dashboard: Combine financial, sales, and supply chain data into a single, real-time dashboard for cross-functional insights. -Execute Data Migration Plan: Oversee the migration of legacy data to a new platform, ensuring minimal downtime and 100% data integrity. Automate Reporting Process: Replace manual reporting with an automated solution, reducing report generation time by a target amount (e.g., 50%).
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