Workday Adaptive Planning Engineer (Remote/Hybrid)

Eliassen Group; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Workday Adaptive Planning Engineer to design and maintain budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning solutions. You will build data flows between Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning, ensure data accuracy, and support planning cycles with robust testing and governance.

This role emphasizes collaboration with FP&A, accounting, and finance systems, offering W2 options and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years configuring and maintaining Workday Adaptive Planning, including model design, sheets, dimensions, formulas, and allocations.
• Solid understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Experience integrating Adaptive Planning with Workday Financials or other systems, including actuals loading and reconciliation.
• Working knowledge of Workday Financials data model including ledger accounts, worktags, and company or cost center structures.
• Reporting experience with OfficeConnect and Adaptive Matrix reporting and dashboards.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with ability to trace data issues to root cause across systems.
• Clear communication skills to translate stakeholder requirements into technical solutions and articulate tradeoffs.
• Experience supporting planning models through peak cycles such as budget season, forecast refreshes, and month-end.
• Preferred: Workday Adaptive Planning Pro Certification.
• Preferred: Workday Finance Pro Certification or equivalent experience, especially FDM and Projects.
• Preferred: Experience with Adaptive CCL, Workday integrations (EIBs, Core Connectors), Workday Studio or Extend.
• Preferred: Experience in regulated or financial-services environments and exposure to data governance and controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and maintain Workday Adaptive Planning models, sheets, and dimensions for budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Build and maintain data flows between Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning to ensure accurate and reliable actuals loading.
• Develop and optimize formulas, calculated accounts, allocations, and modeled sheets with performance and maintainability in mind.
• Own data accuracy, refresh cadence, and reconciliation. Identify and resolve data discrepancies across source systems and Adaptive.
• Partner with FP&A to translate planning requirements into scalable model designs with clear options and tradeoffs.
• Configure and maintain security, user access, and workflow within Adaptive Planning.
• Assess and test impacts of Workday and Adaptive semi-annual releases. Maintain regression testing for models and integrations.
• Build dashboards and reports to provide visibility into plan versus actuals and forecast accuracy.
• Document model design, data flows, and configuration to support continuity and knowledge transfer.
• Provide production support during planning cycles, including month-end and budget season.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Model design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Workday Financials

OfficeConnect

Adaptive Matrix

EIBs

Core Connectors

Workday Studio

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Workday Adaptive Planning Engineer to design and maintain budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning solutions. You will build data flows between Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning, ensure data accuracy, and support planning cycles with robust testing and governance.

This role emphasizes collaboration with FP&A, accounting, and finance systems, offering W2 options and competitive benefits.