Finance Applications Developer
Reporting to: Senior Finance Applications Developer Direct Reports: None Position Type: Permanent
Overview:
Why Tokio Marine HCC?
Standing still is not an option in the current world of Insurance. TMHCC are one of the world’s leading Specialty Insurers. With deep expertise in our chosen lines of business, our unparalleled track record and a solid balance sheet, TMHCC evaluates and manages risk like no one else in the industry. Looking beyond profit, empowering our people and delivering on our commitments are at the core of our customer values, and so is a desire to grow and provide creative and innovative solutions to our clients.
The Finance Change Team provides expertise, management, and coordination of the Finance portfolio of change, supporting Finance and the Business in achieving its strategic objectives. The Finance Applications Developer will be responsible for documenting the functional & non-functional requirements of the Finance Function with respect to (primarily) AnaPlan, ensuring that the users’ needs are accurately and articulately documented before developing, testing & deploying solutions. The Finance Applications Developer will work closely with product owners, to ensure solutions meet business needs.
Job Purpose:
Working within the Finance Change function to design, build, and maintain business models within the Anaplan platform by translating business requirements into technical specifications to create customised solutions for efficient planning, forecasting, and analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Analysis and Collaboration:
- Requirements gathering: Understand current finance processes, identify pain points, and document functional requirements for system enhancements or new features.
- System analysis: Evaluate existing applications / planning models, analyse data flows, and identify potential areas for optimization.
- Solution design: Collaborate with stakeholders to design system solutions that align with business needs, including process mapping, workflow design, and data integration.
- Lead weekly scrum meetings with the relevant stakeholders.
- Collaborate with business users to test and refine models for functionality and usability and with IT functions to ensure compliance with change, resilience & security controls.
Model Design and Development:
- Design and build robust Anaplan models based on business processes and requirements.
- Create calculations, formulas, and data relationships within Anaplan.
- Implement data integrations from various sources and ensure data accuracy and integrity.
User Interface (UI) Development:
- Design user-friendly dashboards and reports to visualise key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Create custom input forms and data entry screens for user interaction including use of the Anaplan Excel add-in
Maintenance and Support:
- Identify and troubleshoot issues within Anaplan models.
- Perform regular model updates and maintenance to reflect changing business needs.
- Provide technical support to users on Anaplan functionality and best practice.
- Manage user access levels and security configurations within Anaplan.
Performance Objectives:
- Collaborate with stakeholders in order to demonstrate a core understanding of current FP&A business processes & the Anaplan models that support them.
- Maintain the integrity and functionality of existing Anaplan models & administrate the application.
- Translate new business requirements into “user stories” ready for development.
- Develop new functionality within Anaplan.
The Tokio Marine HCC Group of Companies offers a competitive salary and employee benefit package. We are a successful, dynamic organization experiencing rapid growth and are seeking energetic and confident individuals to join our team of professionals. The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.
Skills and Experience Specification:
Essential:
- Experience in designing and building Anaplan models including calculations, data relationships & data integrations.
- Experience in designing dashboards and reports.
- Experience in managing user access and security configurations.
- Proficiency in troubleshooting Anaplan models.
- Ability to provide technical support on Anaplan functionality.
- Experience in performing & testing regular model updates.
- Strong understanding of business processes (planning/reporting) and financial concepts.
- Strong business analysis skills, able to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Able to work in tight deadlines during busiest times of the year.
Desirable:
- Experience working within the insurance industry
- Experience working within finance
- SQL Programming knowledge
- Accountancy qualifications (ACCA / ACMA) - Qualified / part-qualified
- Experience of Agile / Kanban & Azure Dev Ops
