Business Analyst - Anaplan
About QuadReal Property Group
QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its assets under management are $85 billion. From its foundation in Canada as a full-service real estate operating company, QuadReal has expanded its capabilities to invest in equity and debt in both the public and private markets. QuadReal invests directly, via programmatic partnerships and through operating platforms in which it holds an ownership interest.
QuadReal seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves. Now and for generations to come.
QuadReal: Excellence lives here.
Role Overview
QuadReal is looking for a Business Analyst to join the Enterprise Applications team to support Anaplan across the organization. This role will play an important part in helping to evolve the analytics journey and driving process evolution to get to insights faster and easier. The Anaplan Business Analyst will help to maximize the performance of the organization through the implementation, improvement, and sustainment of leading-edge tools and processes. This includes assisting with design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of IT systems. The candidate should be someone with exceptional analytical skills who thrives working in collaborative and fast-paced environments where the ability to think creatively to deliver solutions and results is essential.
The Business Analyst should have a good understanding of finance and corporate performance management (CPM) systems as they will be integral to maximizing the performance of QuadReal through the management and growth of Anaplan. This role will play an important role by working closely with the business on the Anaplan roadmap journey, model building, and systems maintenance. This will include analyzing business requirements, procedures and data to establish processes and controls. The Business Analyst will also be integral to improving the system and reviewing its capabilities, workflows and limitations as well as maintaining the smooth ongoing use of Anaplan by various teams across the organization.
Responsibilities
Work in close collaboration with the Executive Sponsor and team members across Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Human Resources (HR), and Portfolio Management in addition to external implementation resources on the progression of the multi-year Anaplan Roadmap. This includes:
Building of new modules and phases
Establishing and refining integration and connections across multiple systems, working closely with the Integrations Team
Managing enhancements and continuous improvement efforts of completed modules, including the prioritization of them based on the overall Anaplan roadmap
Meet with relevant stakeholders to define business, financial, and operations requirements and goals for Anaplan
Support technology design and re-design activities through interpretation, clarification, and documentation of business requirements, processes, business rules, and downstream & upstream impacts of proposed changes
Investigate and analyze opportunities to help improve business efficiencies and maximize use of QuadReal enterprise applications
Lead and/or assist with the creation of business cases, ROIs, and other project related documentation, as required, with input from key business stakeholders
Investigate and analyze opportunities to help improve business efficiencies and maximize use of Anaplan
Support activities related to system implementation and sustainment
Create, execute, and document test cases/test scripts to validate system changes, and provide framework to support end user acceptance testing
Coordinate, support and help business users resolve day-to-day support issues
Experience and Qualifications
A minimum of 2 years experience as a Business Analyst, background in finance/accounting/real estate is an asset
Experience working with a CPM/EPM is required
Experience working with Anaplan is preferred, though those with deep experience with other comparable CPM/EPM systems (e.g.. Adaptive, TM1, Onestream, SAP BPC etc.) may be considered
Experience in analysis, troubleshooting, and supporting CPM applications
Anaplan Level 1/2/3 certification is an asset
Worked in complex global businesses and has a keen interest in Real Estate
Proficient with using ERPs, CPMs, BI/visualization tools, analytical tools, and MS Office applications
The ideal candidate is results-oriented, agile, analytical, and collaborative
Detail oriented with superior documentation skills
Ability to allocate one's time effectively, work under pressure and manage tight deadlines, multiple demands, projects and competing priorities.