Analyst, Sales Planning & Analytics (Anaplan)

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Title- Analyst, Sales Planning & Analytics (Anaplan)

Strategy & Operations is the brain and the spine of our go-to-market teams at Okta. As part of the Business Operations group, we protect the investment in Okta’s rapidly growing sales and GTM organization by ensuring everyone has the insight, tools, and processes it needs to run effectively and efficiently.

The person in this role will help build the foundation of reporting and systems. You’ll be close to the company’s most critical performance metrics, and develop a keen understanding of how Okta acquires revenue. You’ll help build the infrastructure needed to scale the team and grow our GTM teams.

You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse cast in our high-performing Ops organization (Go-to-market leaders, Business Systems, Data & Analytics).

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Build the right infrastructure

• Support the structure to run GTM operations and personnel processes (target changes, headcount planning, partnering with Finance and recruiting).
• Partner with our IT, Data and Finance teams to augment and align our shared data.
• Configure and maintain Anaplan lists, modules, dashboards, actions, and other model settings to support sales reporting and business planning
• Help execute a vision of integrated planning.
• You will support the building of the tools that guide our global territory carving and quota planning process, interim quota management process, as well as various strategic data enrichment initiatives
• Design and improve on how we report on performance, track metrics, and set key targets.
• Support the build of sales planning models on the Anaplan platform
• You will help improve our analysis, planning, scenario modeling, and reporting for our Sales organization
• Optimize the user experience and value of our models.
• Work closely with partner teams to convert business-planning use cases into Anaplan models

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting,
• Ability to identify the core business issues and how to address those issues through analysis and recommendations
• Experience modeling complex problems, both conceptually and tactically (spreadsheets, analysis tools, visualization).
• Endless curiosity and a need to dive deeper for understanding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Anaplan Model Builder Certification required (SPM experience preferred)
• Working knowledge of Sales Operations related processes (i.e. Headcount planning, Territory Management, etc.)
• Experience in Agile methodology
• Business analysis and modeling experience for a sales org (fast growing enterprise SaaS preferred)
• 2-4 years of experience with systems and tools such as SFDC, Anaplan, Workday, Tableau etc
• Self-motivation, with the desire and capacity to work both independently and collaboratively.

Additional things we value:

• Perspectives and backgrounds we don’t already have on board: we value new viewpoints and ideas.
• Experience with integrating enterprise tools.
• Experience with Tableau or other analysis/BI tools.

You might fit one of these profiles, or might not:

• An Anaplan consultant looking to move client-side.
• A systems architect with strong background in Anaplan or other BI tool.
• A general analyst (finance, marketing, product) with strong model building experience and/or experience in Anaplan.

Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, New York, and Washington is between:

$106,000—$143,000 USD

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between:

$117,000—$158,000 USD

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