Seattle Lead Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant – FP&A

Hansell Tierney; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid sick leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Hansell Tierney is recruiting a Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant/Lead for an onsite Seattle engagement focused on improving an existing Adaptive environment, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and data structure optimization.

The role involves directing discovery sessions, bridging finance and business language, and delivering practical improvements with dashboards and self‑service reports. Local candidates onsite 4–5 days/week preferred.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience implementing Workday Adaptive Planning including modeling and reporting.
• Strong FP&A process knowledge and accounting/GL familiarity.
• Ability to translate requirements into system solutions.
• Able to drive to practical, workable solutions across functions.
• Excellent communication to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven track record delivering end-to-end consulting engagements.
• Local to Seattle and onsite 4–5 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Write custom reports in Workday Adaptive Planning to support faster variance reporting and analysis
• Lead discovery sessions with Finance, Accounting, and business unit stakeholders to document current workflows, pain points, and decision needs
• Bridge finance/accounting language and business language — facilitate alignment on definitions, levels of detail, and reporting outputs
• Assess the current Adaptive model design, including chart of accounts mappings, dimensions, and actuals integration from the general ledger and other sources
• Recommend and execute a practical improvement plan covering model redesign, dimension restructuring, mappings, data granularity changes, and process improvements
• Improve usability of actuals-vs.-budget and actuals-vs.-forecast reporting for business users; reduce reliance on Excel workarounds
• Design and deploy dashboards, recurring reports, and self‑service views to support business decision‑making
• Partner with internal system owners and Finance leadership to manage tradeoffs, constraints, and governance; document decisions and standards
• Develop change enablement deliverables including training materials, quick reference guides, and hand‑off documentation
• Provide post‑engagement support for incremental adjustments as the business evolves (optional/as needed)

Skills

Workday Adaptive Planning

FP&A process knowledge

requirements gathering

stakeholder management

communication skills

end-to-end consulting

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning integrations

Job description

Hansell Tierney is recruiting a Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant/Lead for an onsite Seattle engagement focused on improving an existing Adaptive environment, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and data structure optimization.

The role involves directing discovery sessions, bridging finance and business language, and delivering practical improvements with dashboards and self‑service reports. Local candidates onsite 4–5 days/week preferred.