Principal Solution Consultant - Financial Consolidation & Reporting

About the role

Anaplan is looking for a high-impact, customer-facing Principal Solution Consultant to join its presales team, specializing in Financial Consolidation & Reporting (FCR). The role combines deep domain expertise in statutory and management consolidation with strong storytelling and technical modeling skills, partnering with Sales, Product and Customer Success teams to help enterprise customers modernize legacy consolidation processes and achieve faster, more accurate financial close and reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Sales to engage enterprise prospects and identify challenges across financial consolidation, close and reporting
• Run discovery conversations to uncover pain points in statutory consolidation, intercompany eliminations, disclosures and group reporting
• Design and deliver solution demonstrations and Proof of Concepts showcasing consolidation, reconciliation and reporting capabilities
• Translate complex financial and technical concepts into clear narratives for senior stakeholders such as Finance and the CFO office
• Support deal strategy, value articulation and competitive positioning against legacy tools (Hyperion, SAP BPC, OneStream, Tagetik, Cognos)
• Work with Product and GTM teams to refine messaging and give field feedback, and mentor peers on FCA domain expertise
• Stay current with IFRS, GAAP and market trends in financial consolidation

Required profile

• 10+ years of presales, consulting or implementation experience in financial consolidation or financial close solutions
• Strong domain knowledge of statutory and management consolidation, financial close, intercompany eliminations, disclosure management and regulatory reporting
• Understanding of accounting standards (IFRS, US GAAP or local GAAPs)
• Experience building financial models, multidimensional modeling or analytics solutions
• Excellent storytelling, presentation and executive communication skills
• Comfortable in complex enterprise sales cycles and influencing multiple stakeholders
• Preferred: CA / CFA / MBA (Finance) or equivalent, cloud-based EPM or planning platform experience, FP&A exposure, Asia or global consolidation experience

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with consolidation platforms such as Hyperion, SAP BPC, OneStream, Tagetik, Cognos Controller or similar
• Financial modeling and multidimensional modeling