Remote Workday Adaptive Planning Lead & FP&A Analytics

Southern New Hampshire University; Sioux Falls (SD); Remote; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision plans

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning to lead, configure, and optimize the Workday Adaptive Planning environment. You’ll translate complex financial requirements into scalable models, reports, dashboards, and planning solutions, partnering with Finance, HR, IT, and other stakeholders.

You will oversee security, data integrity, and integrations, develop documentation, and train users to maximize Adaptive Planning value across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive hands-on experience in an administrator, developer, model builder, reporting, or systems analyst capacity of which 3+ years utilizing the Workday Adaptive Planning system.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field. Demonstrated experience developing complex Adaptive Planning reports, dashboards, and management reporting solutions.
• Strong experience working with Adaptive Planning dimensions, accounts, levels, versions, sheets, assumptions, formulas, calculations, business rules, and model structures.
• Experience creating in/out bound integrations between Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Strong understanding of financial planning 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.
• 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.

Skills

Workday Adaptive Planning

FP&A experience

Dashboard reporting

System administration

Data integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning to lead, configure, and optimize the Workday Adaptive Planning environment. You’ll translate complex financial requirements into scalable models, reports, dashboards, and planning solutions, partnering with Finance, HR, IT, and other stakeholders.

You will oversee security, data integrity, and integrations, develop documentation, and train users to maximize Adaptive Planning value across