Vice President, FP&A Anaplan Architect

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. 
 

With over $250 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real Assets. Anchored by a
strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies
​differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1,100 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com.

The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Anaplan Architect to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. The role will be pivotal in designing, building, maintaining, and optimizing our Anaplan platform to support our financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes. The ideal candidate is a Solution Architect with expertise in Anaplan model building and has experience working for or with alternative asset management firms.  The candidate will be an integral member of the FP&A team with the opportunity to have broad exposure to all our key planning activities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain our Anaplan platform for financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes across revenues, expenses, taxes and more
• Continuously improve and optimize existing FP&A models for scalability, performance, and improved end-user experience
• Lead platform enhancements and new projects by analyzing complex business requirements, architecting solutions and driving implementation with the FP&A team and external consultants
• Work closely with the Management Company Financial Systems team to manage data hierarchies and ensure data integrity from the ERP and consolidation systems
• Collaborate with key business partners across the Finance function and the broader organization to identify expanded Anaplan use cases and opportunities
• Provide continuous guidance and training to FP&A team members and other end-users on Anaplan functionality
• Implement and enforce model governance, including robust security, planning workflows and SOP documentation
• Keep abreast of Anaplan platform updates and future roadmaps to propose innovative solutions to enhance Blue Owl’s financial planning capabilities

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree
• 7 to 10 years of relevant working experience, with 5+ years of experience as an Anaplan Solution Architect or model builder
• Experience supporting financial planning and analysis processes; working for or with alternative asset management firms is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Superior organizational skills; ability to multi-task and flex with changing priorities
• Project management experience covering project inception through execution