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About Planful

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,300 customers, including 23andMe, Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, and Zappos, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

About the role:

Planful is looking for a Manager, Solution Consulting Operations to join our rapidly growing team immediately. You’ll be tasked with managing a team of content consultants as well as owning the full operational side of the Solutions Consulting organization.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of Solutions Content Consultants, setting priorities, fostering career growth, hiring and bringing on new additions to the team
• Create and manage a process for prioritising, designing, resourcing and delivering sales demo assets (standard use case demos, vertical/industry solutions, etc.)
• Solicit knowledge and expertise for use in designing and architecting sales demo assets
• Manage the sales content infrastructure and architecture (ie. demo tenants, cloning, backup, migration)
• Create and manage a process for requesting, defining, resourcing and delivering POC’s
• Manage POC delivery standards according to defined metrics
• Work as a key member of the team supporting all sales, marketing and customer success activities to drive software sales
• Work closely with Product Management and Product Marketing on translating go to market strategy into demonstratable solutions and communicating Solutions Consulting needs
• Provide, and continue to develop, domain specific knowledge (vertical industry/use case, competitive product, finance and accounting, etc.)
• Own all applicable sales support content, eg. Demo scripts, sales solution design documents
• Own communication and knowledge transfer tools for the Solutions Consulting team
• Own reporting all required performance metrics

Qualifications:

• Education background in Accounting or Business/Finance discipline and/or equivalent experience
• 7+ years’ related work experience; preferably a proven track record with working with or at a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) vendor
• Strong grasp of the types of financial applications that Planful Solutions implements i.e. budgeting, planning, forecasting, month end close, financial reporting, consolidations, FP&A, etc.;
• Advanced Excel skills – ability to create complex formulas, macros and sophisticated formatting;
• Ability to gather and understand the potential customer’s requirements, leveraging a consultative approach, and convert those requirements into an effective POC;
• Strong business acumen and understanding of multiple industries’ budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes, such as manufacturing, services, banking, insurance, etc.;
• Familiarity with WFP, CAPEX, Month End Close, Financial Consolidation and vertical performance management themes;
• Strong communication skills
• Self-learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high quality work

Why Planful

Planful exists to enrich the world by helping our customers and our people achieve peak performance. To foster the best in class work we’re so proud of, we’ve created a best-in-class culture, including:

• 2 Volunteer days, Birthday PTO, and quarterly company Wellness Days
• 3 months supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your Maternity/Paternity leave
• Annual Planful Palooza, our in-person, company-wide culture kickoff held in cities like San Diego, Denver, and most recently - Palm Desert, California!
• Team-specific offsites in cities like New York, Sonoma, or our brand new HQ based in downtown San Francisco
• Company-wide Mentorship program with Executive sponsorship of CFO and Manager-specific monthly training programs
• Employee Resource Groups such as Women of Planful, Planful, Parents of Planful, and many more. We encourage our teammates to bring their authentic selves to the team, and have full support in creating new ERGs & communities along the way

Pay Transparency Statement

At Planful our top priority is to support our employees and ensure each individual has access to equal growth opportunities. Pay decisions take into consideration the individual's skillset, experience, knowledge, qualifications for the role, and specific work location.

Our starting base salary for this role is $140,000 CAD. As a part of this role, you are also eligible for commission, equity, benefits, and wellbeing resources. More details about our company benefits can be found here: https://planful.com/jobs/