Senior Business Systems Analyst - Workday Adaptive Planning

Overview

This role is responsible for hands-on administration of Workday Adaptive Planning, including model building and reporting. The position supports ongoing development, optimization, and support of the organization’s Workday Adaptive Planning environment and helps expand its use as an enterprise planning, reporting, and decision-support platform.

The role is part of the Financial Analytics and Insights team and reports to the Senior Director Financial Analytics and Insights.

Location

Remote work is available 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 and Wyoming.

Remote employees must:

• Reside in, and work from, one of the approved states listed above
• Have access to a reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace free of distractions

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Workday Adaptive Planning administrator and subject matter expert for day-to-day administration, configuration, maintenance, and optimization.
• 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 to support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, workforce planning, and other planning and reporting needs.
• Manage user access, roles, permissions, and security while maintaining data governance and internal controls; monitor system performance, data integrity, integrations, and user experience, and identify improvement opportunities.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration standards, technical documentation, administrative procedures, and training and user materials.
• Design and build Adaptive Planning models and planning solutions aligned to FP&A processes, balancing flexibility and usability with appropriate controls, standardization, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to define complex reporting requirements and build Adaptive reporting solutions for budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, trends, workforce metrics, and other 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, ITS, and other technical teams on complex integrations, data architecture, APIs, and technical issues.
• Facilitate discussions with business stakeholders to understand needs, evaluate alternatives, and recommend approaches that balance business requirements, system capabilities, scalability, controls, and maintainability.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• 5+ years of 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 years of experience in lieu of degree acceptable

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Compensation & Benefits

Pay

• Annual pay range: $80,128.00 - $128,226.00
• Expected target hiring range: $88,540.00 - $119,788.00
• Offer amount will be based on skills, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and relevant business considerations.

Benefits (full-time)

• 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