Remote Workday Adaptive Planning Lead | FP&A Analytics

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

Benefits offered by this job

High-quality medical insurance

Dental and vision plans

5 weeks paid time off

Employer-funded retirement

Free tuition program

Parental leave

Mental health and wellbeing resources

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning who will administer, model, and optimize our Workday Adaptive Planning environment. You will partner with Finance, HR, IT, and other stakeholders to translate complex financial and workforce requirements into scalable Adaptive models, reports, dashboards, and planning solutions.

This is a remote, full-time role within the Financial Analytics and Insights team with a focus on governance,

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.
• Experience developing complex Adaptive Planning reports, dashboards, and management reporting solutions.
• Experience with Adaptive OfficeConnect, including development and maintenance of management reporting packages.
• Strong understanding of FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary Workday Adaptive Planning administrator and subject matter expert, with responsibility for the 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 evolving budgeting, forecasting, reporting, workforce planning, and business requirements.
• Manage Adaptive Planning user access, roles, permissions, and security while maintaining appropriate data governance and internal controls, while monitoring system performance, data integrity, integrations, and user experience and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain appropriate system documentation, configuration standards, technical documentation, and administrative procedures, as well as training materials, documentation, user guides, and other resources that support effective adoption as well as conduct training and knowledge-transfer sessions for users and stakeholders.
• Design and build Adaptive Planning models and planning solutions that apply strong understanding of FP&A processes to ensure that the solutions appropriately support financial planning and management practices, that balance flexibility and usability with appropriate controls, standardization, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to define complex reporting requirements and translate those requirements into effective Adaptive reporting solutions supporting budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, trends, workforce metrics, and other key financial and operational measures.
• Partner with Human Resources to develop and maintain workforce planning models and reporting solutions within Adaptive Planning.
• Develop, maintain, monitor, reconcile and troubleshoot integrations and data flows between Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Partner with FINSYS, HRIS and ITS and other technical teams on complex integrations, data architecture, APIs, and technical issues.
• Facilitate discussions with business stakeholders to understand underlying business needs and evaluate alternative solutions and recommend approaches that balance business requirements, system capabilities, scalability, controls, and maintainability.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Education

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

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Adaptive OfficeConnect

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning who will administer, model, and optimize our Workday Adaptive Planning environment. You will partner with Finance, HR, IT, and other stakeholders to translate complex financial and workforce requirements into scalable Adaptive models, reports, dashboards, and planning solutions.

This is a remote, full-time role within the Financial Analytics and Insights team with a focus on governance,