Lead Consultant – Anaplan

Avance Consulting Services

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San Jose, CA, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted February 23, 2026 Last posted February 23, 2026
Job description

Warm Greetings!

My name is Srinath and I am a Sr. Technical Recruiter with Avance Consulting.  We are a leading consulting company and have been in consulting business for last 10 years. We are primary vendors to several Fortune 1000, Investment Banks and Financial companies. 

I found your resume on one of the job boards and it looks to be a good fit for an open position we have. Please review the job description listed below. If you are interested, please respond with your updated resume or give me a call on 732-276-9933 Ext 238 at your earliest convenience. If you are not looking for new roles, please forward this email to someone either from your professional network or friends who are looking for new opportunities since we have an excellent referral program.


Hi,

I hope you are doing good.

I have Opportunity with one of my client, please find below Job Description for your review. If you are interested please forward me your updated resume along with your contact details to discuss further


Role: Lead Consultant – Anaplan
Duration: Full Time / Permanent
Location: San Jose, CA


Qualifications
Basic

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

Requirement:


• 3 - 4 yrs. experience of successfully implementing Anaplan solutions with atleast 1 to 2 yr. as an Anaplan Solution Architect.
• 4 to 5 yrs of experience in Data Analytics/BI tool like Hyperion or other multi-dimensional tool like COGNOS.
• Strong expertise and deep understanding of multi-dimensional modeling tools and optimizing the design for performance.
• Expert skills of Excel spreadsheet modeling, macros, pivot tables, formulas, charts, etc.
• Ability to translate current customer spreadsheet models to effective and efficient Anaplan model designs. Design ability to translate complex excel models into scalable multi-dimensional Anaplan models.
• Strong client facing skills.
• Familiarity with Anaplan Agile methodology.

Good to have Skills
• Finance/Sales Planning business process knowledge
• Certified Anaplan Solution Architect.


Roles & Responsibilities
• Understand clients' business planning processes and related business requirements.
• Review use cases, conceive and develop Proof Of Concept POC models efficiently to establish credibility of Anaplan platform flexibility with the customers.
• Design effectively & efficiently to cover processes & requirements into detailed blueprint: enterprise models with associated modules, lists / line items, and calculations as supported by multi-dimensional Anaplan platform
• Translate design into development plan/timeline and development effort to generate detailed staffing plans & project schedules through sprint cycles

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Implementing Anaplan solutions, designing models, translating Excel to Anaplan, client interaction

Job title

Lead Consultant – Anaplan

Experience level

4-5 years

Industry

consulting

Location requirements

San Jose, CA; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

anaplandata analyticsexcelclient facingagile

Preferred skills

financesales planningcertified anaplan solution architect

Specializations

anaplandata analyticsBI toolsmulti-dimensional modeling
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Jose, CA, USA

On-site City