Senior Workday Adaptive Planning Lead (Remote)

Southern New Hampshire University; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision plans

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Tuition benefits

Parental leave

Mental health resources

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst for Workday Adaptive Planning. You will serve as the administrator, model builder, and reporting expert, shaping budgeting, forecasting and workforce planning across the organization.

You will lead configuration, security, and data governance while partnering with Finance, HR, IT and other stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable planning solutions and insightful dashboards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years progressive hands‑on experience in an administrator, developer, model builder, reporting, or systems analyst capacity.
• 3+ years utilizing the Workday Adaptive Planning system.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field; equivalent experience 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, 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 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 data governance and internal controls, monitoring system performance, data integrity, integrations, and user experience.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration standards, technical documentation, and administrative procedures, plus training materials and user guides; conduct training sessions.
• Design and build Adaptive Planning models and planning solutions applying FP&A best practices for flexible yet controlled planning.
• Partner with Finance and stakeholders to define complex reporting requirements and translate them into Adaptive reporting solutions for budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, trends, and workforce metrics.
• Partner with Human Resources to develop workforce planning models and reporting solutions within Adaptive Planning.
• Develop, maintain, monitor, reconcile and troubleshoot integrations and data flows between Workday components.
• Collaborate with FINSYS, HRIS and ITS teams on integrations, data architecture, APIs, and technical issues.
• Facilitate discussions to understand business needs and evaluate approaches balancing requirements, system capabilities, scalability and maintainability.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

FP&A processes

Financial reporting

Dashboards

Stakeholder collaboration

Workflow configuration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

OfficeConnect

Workday Integrations

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst for Workday Adaptive Planning. You will serve as the administrator, model builder, and reporting expert, shaping budgeting, forecasting and workforce planning across the organization.

You will lead configuration, security, and data governance while partnering with Finance, HR, IT and other stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable planning solutions and insightful dashboards.