Lead Workday Adaptive Planning Architect

Aon Corporation; Williamstown (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid holidays

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Long-term disability

Health savings account

Commuter benefits

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Aon Corporation seeks an experienced Workday Adaptive Planning Architect to lead the strategy, roadmap, and architecture of our enterprise planning platform. You will drive technical solutioning for FP&A initiatives across budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and reporting, partnering with Finance, FP&A, and HR teams.

As a hands-on technical lead, you will translate complex business requirements into scalable planning models and oversee integrations with Workday Financials, ERP, and data

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience supporting FP&A, EPM, or enterprise planning platforms, including 5+ years of hands on Workday Adaptive Planning experience as an architect, lead administrator, or consultant.
• Deep expertise in data modeling, system integration, and performance optimization within a sophisticated enterprise environment.
• Deep functional knowledge across adaptive modeling, workforce planning, financial planning and forecasting, OfficeConnect, reporting and dashboards, security administration, and version management.
• Familiarity with Workday ways of working. Experience integrating planning, ERP, HCM, and other financial systems strongly preferred.
• PMP, Agile, or related project management certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement the vision, roadmap, governance, and lifecycle management of the Workday Adaptive Planning platform, defining planning technology strategies that support budgeting, forecasting, long range planning, workforce planning, and scenario analysis.
• Lead the design of complex, scalable Adaptive Planning solutions, ensuring data integrity and seamless information flow across the enterprise.
• Lead the technical solutioning for all major Adaptive Planning initiatives, from initial discovery and design through implementation and postproduction support.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical specifications and model architecture, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy, and continuously find opportunities for process improvement and tool optimization for FP&A and other business teams.
• Architect multidimensional planning models and structures, including dimensions, assumptions, versions, levels, and hierarchies that support: revenue, expense, and headcount planning; workforce and long-range goal setting; driver-based forecasting and scenario modeling.
• Own and provide hands on support for urgent and business critical production issues, ensuring swift resolution and minimal business disruption.
• Serve as a domain authority for business collaborators, fixing process and technical issues in a timely manner, with a focus on upholding guidelines.
• Configure and maintain Adaptive Planning models, sheets, formulas, assumptions, dimensions, attributes, and workflows, optimizing model performance, usability, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain executive reporting solutions and establish governance standards for OfficeConnect reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs.
• Architect and oversee integrations between Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday Financials, Workday HCM, ERP, data warehouses, payroll, and BI platforms.
• Manage security architecture, user provisioning, access controls, and segregation of duties.
• Own the evaluation and adoption of new Adaptive Planning capabilities, including bi-annual release adoption and AI/LLM enabled planning and forecasting features.
• Serve as the enterprise design authority for planning architecture, defining standards, and governance for the Adaptive Planning platform.

Skills

Workday Adaptive Planning

FP&A

data modeling

system integration

OfficeConnect

security administration

architecture

leadership

budgeting

forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Business, Computer Science, or related area

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Workday Financials

ERP

data warehouse

Job description

Aon Corporation seeks an experienced Workday Adaptive Planning Architect to lead the strategy, roadmap, and architecture of our enterprise planning platform. You will drive technical solutioning for FP&A initiatives across budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and reporting, partnering with Finance, FP&A, and HR teams.

As a hands-on technical lead, you will translate complex business requirements into scalable planning models and oversee integrations with Workday Financials, ERP, and data