Workday Adaptive Planning Architect

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning experience, with demonstrated expertise designing, configuring, and building Adaptive solutions, rather than primarily maintaining or using existing solutions.

Hands-on Adaptive implementation experience, including building solutions from the ground up, gathering business requirements, architecting solutions, and translating requirements into functional Adaptive builds.

Deep understanding of Adaptive architecture, including dimensions and attributes, standard, modeled, and cube sheets, data flows, planning vs. actuals, GL data, and budget vs. actuals.

Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, prioritize issues, influence stakeholders, and work independently.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Experience with FP&A, financial planning, budgeting, or accounting processes, with a solid understanding of concepts such as budget vs. actuals and financial data flows.

Familiarity with amortization, depreciation, and/or participations.

Experience building Adaptive solutions that support complex financial or accounting processes.

Job Description

We are seeking a Workday Adaptive Planning Architect to support and expand a highly customized Adaptive Planning environment. This person will be a hands-on, creative Adaptive builder who can take business requirements, architect solutions, and build them directly within the platform.

The role will initially be approximately 50% new development/implementation and 50% support and enhancement of existing environments. The consultant will help build new Adaptive functionality, support new business groups, enhance current solutions, and assist with the broader transition from Anaplan to Workday Adaptive Planning.

The environment supports specialized financial processes including amortization, participations, accruals, financial planning, Workday journal entries, and audited financial processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and build solutions within Workday Adaptive Planning
• Develop new functionality and implementations for expanding business groups
• Translate business and financial requirements into scalable Adaptive solutions
• Enhance and support existing Adaptive applications
• Support the transition of planning processes from Anaplan to Adaptive
• Learn Fox’s highly customized Adaptive environment and become largely self-sufficient
• Partner with financial and technical teams on complex planning and accounting processes