Senior Business Systems Analyst - Workday Adaptive Planning

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The Senior Business Systems Analyst – Workday Adaptive Planning is a hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning administrator, model builder, and reporting expert responsible for the administration, development, optimization, and ongoing support of the organization's Workday Adaptive Planning environment.

This position is a key member of the Financial Analytics and Insights team and will play a critical role in expanding the organization's use of Adaptive Planning as an enterprise planning, reporting, and decision-support platform. The Senior Business Analyst will have significant ownership of the Adaptive environment, including model development, configuration, reporting, dashboards, Office Connect, security, data management, system administration, and platform optimization.

You will bring demonstrated, hands‑on experience building and administering Workday Adaptive Planning—not simply experience as an end‑user. You will understand how to translate complex financial and operational requirements into well‑designed Adaptive models, reports, dashboards, and planning solutions that are scalable, intuitive, controlled, and sustainable.

The role will partner closely with Finance, Human Resources, IT, and other business stakeholders to understand business requirements, improve planning and reporting processes, develop solutions, and maximize the value of the Adaptive Planning platform.

This is an opportunity for an experienced Adaptive Planning professional to play a significant role in shaping how the organization uses technology, data, and planning systems to support financial and workforce decision‑making. You will report to the Senior Director Financial Analytics and Insights. #LI‑Remote

Be the primary Workday Adaptive Planning administrator and subject matter expert, with responsibility for the 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 appropriate data governance and internal controls, while monitoring system performance, data integrity, integrations, and user experience and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.

Maintain appropriate system documentation, configuration standards, technical documentation, and administrative procedures, as well as training materials, documentation, user guides, and other resources that support effective adoption as well as conduct training and knowledge‑transfer sessions for users and stakeholders.

Design and build Adaptive Planning models and planning solutions that apply strong understanding of FP&A processes to ensure that the solutions appropriately support financial planning and management practices, that balance flexibility and usability with appropriate controls, standardization, and…