Senior Workday Adaptive Planning Lead

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly Digital Advisory Services seeks a Workday Adaptive Planning Manager to lead implementations, delivery, and client engagements. The role focuses on applying EPM best practices to improve financial planning and forecasting across client environments.

You will mentor teams, support business development, and stay current with product enhancements while traveling ~20% to serve diverse clients. Bakers Tilly offers a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; major in accounting, finance, information systems, business analytics, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), FP&A, financial systems, or consulting required.
• Minimum of 4 years of Workday Adaptive Planning implementation experience.
• Experience leading multiple end-to-end Workday Adaptive Planning implementations.
• Experience in JavaScript and SQL, with the ability to understand, troubleshoot, and support data integrations and system configurations.
• Strong communication and client management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday Adaptive Planning implementation projects from discovery through deployment, ensuring successful project delivery within scope, timeline, and budget.
• Facilitate client working sessions to understand business processes, planning requirements, reporting needs, and key performance metrics.
• Manage Workday Adaptive Planning implementation and optimization engagements as the solution lead, providing guidance on model design, security, reporting frameworks, workforce planning, scenario planning, and implementation best practices while ensuring successful project delivery.
• Design, configure, test, and optimize Workday Adaptive Planning models, including sheets, versions, dimensions, security, reporting, dashboards, OfficeConnect, and scenario planning.
• Oversee integrations between Workday Adaptive Planning and ERP, HRIS, CRM, and other enterprise applications.
• Lead the design, configuration, and implementation of integrations using JavaScript, SQL, APIs, JDBC, and other integration platforms to incorporate data from a variety of ERP and source systems into Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and reporting efficiencies that reduce manual effort and improve financial insight.
• Manage project risks, issues, resource assignments, and client expectations throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Review project deliverables to ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to implementation standards.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for client project stakeholders and build trusted advisor relationships throughout the engagement.
• Mentor, coach, and provide technical guidance while supporting their professional development.
• Support business development efforts by participating in client proposals, solution demonstrations, scoping discussions, and thought leadership activities.
• Contribute to the continued development of implementation methodologies, reusable assets, and practice best practices.
• Stay current on Workday Adaptive Planning product enhancements and emerging trends in financial planning and enterprise performance management.

Skills

Lead client engagements

Project delivery

Client communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, information systems, business analytics, or related field

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

JavaScript

SQL

OfficeConnect

APIs

Job description

Baker Tilly Digital Advisory Services seeks a Workday Adaptive Planning Manager to lead implementations, delivery, and client engagements. The role focuses on applying EPM best practices to improve financial planning and forecasting across client environments.

You will mentor teams, support business development, and stay current with product enhancements while traveling ~20% to serve diverse clients. Bakers Tilly offers a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.