Senior Business Planner

Company Profile

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions. Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team. Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Business Planner for Compensation Programs with expertise in analytics and financial modelling skills. This role is responsible for the planning, coordination and management for strategic initiatives. This is a short term 3–6-month, remote consulting project. All qualified candidates MUST be authorized in the United States without requiring sponsorship.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Develop financial models to provide options and recommendations.
• Conduct thorough research of historical financial data.
• Pull applicable compensation data for analysis and modelling.
• Compare anticipated and actual results and identify areas of improvement.
• Must be comfortable with formal Agile methodologies and tools and able to manage scrum teams

• Define project scope and project schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value provided
• Organize and lead project status meetings regarding updates, insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• Prepare and distribute progress reports, manage and mitigate risks and issues, correct deviations and perform delivery planning for assigned projects
• Assist in team development and hold team members accountable for commitments, assisting with the removal of any roadblocks/impediments
• Mentoring and/or coaching team members in a cross functional matrixed environment
• Support the Product Owner in managing expectations and priorities of the project deliverables.
• Support the Product Owner in stakeholder communication and helping implement and effective system of project governance and structure

Desired Skills & Experience

• Expert-level analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Able to maneuver within large data sets.
• Strategic thinking.
• Great presentation skills.
• Ability to influence and persuade.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, including the ability to work with others in teams on complex problems or assignments where multiple approaches may be needed for success.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, IT, Computer Science or another quantitative field is required.
• Any Financial certifications a plus
• PMP or Scrum Master certifications are preferred.

Benefits

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.