Senior Analyst (Financial Systems)

Zillow Group is looking for an experienced Sr. Analyst, Financial Systems, to join the Central Financial Planning and Analysis team! As a Sr. Analyst, Financial Systems, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, engineers, and finance professionals to improve financial forecasting in Anaplan. You will configure, code, test, and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems and deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to solid technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive attitude, and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver the Anaplan V5 foundation and scale the ecosystem: Contribute to Polaris migration and V5 MVPs (ADO, Forecaster, Workflow); transition to leading model builds as the Center of Excellence (CoE) expands financial planning and workforce capabilities.
• Build and optimize enterprise planning models: design, develop, and maintain scalable solutions across forecasting, expense planning, and workforce models; ensure performance and accuracy as the business grows.
• Architect data integration pipelines: Partner with data engineering and IT teams to design integrations between Anaplan, Databricks, data warehouses, and upstream/downstream systems.
• Drive technical design and UAT: Lead solution architecture sessions, translate business requirements into technical specifications, and guide user acceptance testing.
• Identify and source new use cases: Evaluate opportunities to expand the Anaplan ecosystem; build business cases for extending planning capabilities to additional functions.
• Support management reporting workflows: Collaborate on consolidation and reporting processes; participate in strategic planning initiatives.

Requirements:

• 8+ years in enterprise planning/EPM with 5+ years of hands-on Anaplan model building in architect-level roles across multiple industries.
• Proven implementation/consulting background: Led 5+ full cycles Anaplan implementations (net new builds or platform upgrades) in consulting or internal COE environments.
• Deep Anaplan technical expertise: Advanced model building capabilities across enterprise-scale implementations; Polaris platform experience preferred.
• Strong integration and data engineering skills: Hands-on with ADO (or similar MDMs), CloudWorks, Anaplan Connect, and REST APIs; experience partnering with data warehouse and ETL teams; Databricks or modern DWH platforms strongly preferred; Workday, Workday Prism, and AWS a plus.
• Practical coding ability: SQL required; Python, R, or similar scripting languages a plus for data transformations and automation.
• ALM and governance leadership: Established Dev-Test-Prod workflows, change control processes, and metadata governance across multi-model ecosystems
• Financial planning and workforce modeling expertise: Built budgeting, forecasting, expense planning, and headcount models using driver-based methodologies; experience with both classic Anaplan and Polaris required.
• Business acumen: Translates ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical architecture; comfortable challenging assumptions and proposing innovative solutions.
• Stakeholder management: Proven ability to engage with finance executives, business partners, and technical teams; excellent written/verbal communication in English.
• Certifications: Anaplan Solution Architect certification required; Master Anaplanner preferred.