Adaptive Planning Administrator

This position is responsible for overseeing and enhancing Workday Adaptive Planning through the creation, ongoing management, and delivery of an organizational roadmap. This role will be a part of the Financial Planning and Analysis team and will support the enhancement of Adaptive through brainstorming of new ideas, integrating new systems and implementing new enhancements, liaising with the finance and controllership operators to understand issues and solutions. The role is a hybrid role supporting the translation of FP&A and organizational business requirements into Adaptive functionality.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technical or Financial field
• A minimum of 5 years systems management and oversight experience
• 3+ years of overall Financial systems support and development with 2+ years of Adaptive Planning experience: Model Building & Management, Data Integrations, Dashboarding & Reporting, Access & Security
• Experience working in a Workday platform environment (with HCM and/or Financials), good understanding of Workday’s architecture
• Ability to support the development of technical design decisions
• Understanding of financial reporting, data governance and integration processes, procedures, and best practices
• Ability to interact with internal clients, assess business challenges and collaboratively define solutions to address key business problems

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES

• Subject matter expert in Workday Adaptive Planning, including system integrations, infrastructure, and business requirements gathering
• Responsible for the construction and deployment of complex financial models through Adaptive
• Liaise between financial and operational users, technical consultants, Financial Systems & HRIS teams
• Main individual to make Adaptive changes directed by the needs of the FP&A team, operational finance and controllership
• Brainstorming and ideating on new ideas for Adaptive to increase automation and efficiencies for FP&A and controllership, in alignment with the Financial Systems team
• Adaptive administration, including security ownership, version and calculated account maintenance, report and dashboard design, worksheet design and creation, and system/metadata integrations
• Adaptive administration including report design, complex model creation and support, data & metadata integration mapping
• Research and discover system issues – reporting them to Workday or solutioning where appropriate
• Direct contact and representative of the organization with Adaptive and 3rd party Adaptive consultants
• Advise team members and act as lead trainer on Adaptive uses and tools
• Attending financial system trainings/conferences to understand new features and tools to the highest potential for the organization
• Special projects or other duties as assigned