We are seeking an experienced Workday Adaptive Planning SME to lead the design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing enhancement of Workday Adaptive Planning solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, financial modeling, and reporting using Workday Adaptive Planning.
The SME will work closely with Finance, FP&A, HR, and IT stakeholders to understand business requirements, translate them into scalable planning solutions, and drive successful implementations and system integrations.
Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for Workday Adaptive Planning, providing functional and technical leadership.
Lead end-to-end Workday Adaptive Planning implementations, enhancements, and optimization initiatives.
Design, configure, and maintain financial planning models, dimensions, versions, levels, accounts, sheets, and calculations.
Develop and manage budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and workforce planning models.
Configure Adaptive Planning sheets, modeled sheets, cube sheets, and standard sheets.
Design and develop financial reports, dashboards, visualizations, and management reporting.
Build and maintain complex formulas, calculations, allocations, and business rules within Adaptive Planning.
Support FP&A processes, including annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and scenario modeling.
Integrate Workday Adaptive Planning with Workday HCM, Workday Financial Management, and external ERP systems.
Work with data integration tools, EIB, APIs, and other integration mechanisms for data loading and synchronization.
Perform data validation, reconciliation, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Lead requirements gathering, solution design, functional workshops, and stakeholder discussions.
Coordinate SIT, UAT, defect resolution, deployment, and post-production support.
Establish best practices, governance standards, documentation, and user training.
Mentor junior consultants and provide functional guidance to project teams.
