Senior Business Systems Analyst - Workday Adaptive Planning

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental/vision plans

Paid time off - 5 weeks

Retirement plan

Tuition assistance

Parental leave

Mental health resources

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning to serve as the hands-on administrator, model builder, and reporting expert for the Adaptive Planning environment. This role is a key member of the Financial Analytics and Insights team, driving setup, optimization, and scalable planning solutions.

You will partner with Finance, HR, IT, and stakeholders to translate complex requirements into adaptive models, dashboards, and reports,

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on admin/developer/model builder experience with Workday Adaptive Planning.
• 3+ years using Workday Adaptive Planning in a professional setting.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, IS, or related field; equivalent experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary Workday Adaptive Planning administrator and SME for config, maintenance, and optimization.
• Design and maintain Adaptive Planning models, sheets, versions, and security.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Adaptive configurations and reporting solutions.
• Manage user access, data governance, and integrations with Workday FM/HCM.
• Create training materials and conduct knowledge-transfer sessions for stakeholders.

Skills

Workday Adaptive Planning

FP&A concepts

Dashboard/reporting design

SQL / data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/IS

Tools

OfficeConnect

APIs / Integrations

Job description

About Southern New Hampshire University

Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932, our people-centered strategy has defined us — and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide. Our mission to transform lives is made possible by talented people who bring diverse industry experience, backgrounds and skills to the university. And today, we’re ready to expand our reach.

All we need is you. Make an impact — from near or far.

At SNHU, you'll have the option to work remotely in the following states:

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

Employees must reside in, and work from, one of the above approved states.

The opportunity

The Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning is a hands‑on Workday Adaptive Planning administrator, model builder, and reporting expert responsible for the administration, development, optimization, and ongoing support of the organization's Workday Adaptive Planning environment. This position is a key member of the Financial Analytics and Insights team and will play a critical role in expanding the organization's use of Adaptive Planning as an enterprise planning, reporting, and decision‑support platform. The Senior Business Systems Analyst will have significant ownership of the Adaptive environment, including model development, configuration, reporting, dashboards, OfficeConnect, security, data management, system administration, and platform optimization. You will bring demonstrated, hands‑on experience building and administering Workday Adaptive Planning—not simply experience as an end‑user. You will understand how to translate complex financial and operational requirements into well‑designed Adaptive models, reports, dashboards, and planning solutions that are scalable, intuitive, controlled, and sustainable. The role will partner closely with Finance, Human Resources, IT, and other business stakeholders to understand business requirements, improve planning and reporting processes, develop solutions, and maximize the value of the Adaptive Planning platform. This is an opportunity for an experienced Adaptive Planning professional to play a significant role in shaping how the organization uses technology, data, and planning systems to support financial and workforce decision‑making. You will report to the Senior Director Financial Analytics and Insights.

What you'll do

• 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, 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.

What we're looking for

• 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. Equivalent years of experience in lieu of degree acceptable.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex Adaptive Planning reports, dashboards, and management reporting solutions.
• Experience with Adaptive OfficeConnect, including development and maintenance of management reporting packages.
• 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.

We believe real innovation comes from inclusion – where different experiences, perspectives and talents are celebrated.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to fully engage in any part of the application or hiring process, please complete the Accommodation Request form or contact us at 603‑626‑9447. A member from the Employee Accommodation Support Center will be in contact with you within two business days to discuss your request.

Compensation

The annual pay range for this position is $80,128.00 – $128,226.00. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience and internal equity, in addition to relevant business considerations. We expect this position to be hired in the following target hiring range $88,540.00 – $119,788.00.

Exceptional benefits

• High‑quality, low‑deductible medical insurance
• Low to no‑cost dental and vision plans
• 5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)
• Employer‑funded retirement
• Free tuition program
• Parental leave
• Mental health and wellbeing resources