Remote Senior Workday Adaptive Planning Analyst

Southern New Hampshire University; Tennessee; Remote; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University seeks an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning to administer, model-build, and report on the Workday Adaptive Planning environment. This role partners with Finance, HR, and IT to translate complex requirements into scalable Adaptive models, dashboards, and planning solutions.

You will own security, data governance, integrations, and documentation, ensuring robust budgeting, forecasting, and workforce planning capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive hands-on experience in an administrator, developer, model builder, reporting, or systems analyst capacity.
• 3+ years utilizing the Workday Adaptive Planning system.
• Demonstrated experience developing adaptive planning reports, dashboards, and management reporting solutions.
• Bachelor level degree or higher in finance, accounting, business, information systems, data analytics or related field.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary Workday Adaptive Planning administrator and subject matter expert, with responsibility for day-to-day administration, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the platform.
• Own and maintain Adaptive Planning structures, including models, dimensions, accounts, levels, versions, sheets, assumptions, formulas, business rules, attributes, and security.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Adaptive configurations, including model structures, dimensions, assumptions, formulas, calculations, workflows, and reporting solutions to support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, workforce planning, and business requirements.
• Manage Adaptive Planning user access, roles, permissions, and security while maintaining data governance and internal controls, monitor system performance, data integrity, integrations, and user experience and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration standards, and training materials, and conduct training sessions for users and stakeholders.
• Design and build Adaptive Planning models and planning solutions applying FP&A best practices to ensure flexibility, usability, controls, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to define reporting requirements and translate them into Adaptive reporting solutions for budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, trends, and workforce metrics.
• Develop, maintain, monitor, reconcile and troubleshoot integrations and data flows between Workday components and Adaptive Planning.
• Collaborate with IT, HRIS, FINSYS and other technical teams on integrations, data architecture, APIs, and issues.
• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders to evaluate solutions balancing requirements, capabilities, scalability, controls, and maintainability.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in admin/developer/model builder/reporter role with 3+ years in Workday Adaptive Planning.

Skills

Reporting & dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University seeks an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning to administer, model-build, and report on the Workday Adaptive Planning environment. This role partners with Finance, HR, and IT to translate complex requirements into scalable Adaptive models, dashboards, and planning solutions.

You will own security, data governance, integrations, and documentation, ensuring robust budgeting, forecasting, and workforce planning capabilities.