Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Squires Group, Inc. is seeking an experienced Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant to support a strategic budgeting transformation initiative. The consultant will work directly with finance leaders and stakeholders to redesign and optimize an existing Workday Adaptive Planning environment, leading planning workstreams, building models, facilitating workshops, and supporting testing and adoption.
Responsibilities
- Partner with client stakeholders to assess and redesign existing Workday Adaptive Planning solutions
- Lead Adaptive Planning workstreams focused on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning optimization
- Design, build, and enhance complex Adaptive Planning models to improve business performance and planning accuracy
- Translate business requirements into scalable planning solutions and recommend best practices
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions with finance and business leaders
- Configure, test, validate, and deploy Adaptive Planning enhancements
- Support user acceptance testing, knowledge transfer, and client adoption
- Provide strategic guidance around Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) processes and planning best practices
- Mentor junior team members when appropriate and contribute to project success through collaboration and thought leadership
Skills
- * Active Workday Adaptive Planning Certification
- * 5+ years of consulting or industry experience implementing Workday Adaptive Planning or similar Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions
- * 2+ years leading Adaptive Planning or EPM workstreams
- * Experience leading at least two Workday Adaptive Planning (or similar EPM) implementations or optimization engagements
- * Strong experience designing and developing Adaptive Planning models, including complex modeling and planning scenarios
- * Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with experience working directly with client leadership
- * Ability to travel periodically as project needs require
- * Higher Education industry experience strongly preferred
- * Advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, or a related field
- * Functional expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and Enterprise Performance Management processes
- * Experience gathering business requirements, solution design, testing, training, deployment, and post-production support
- * Prior experience mentoring consultants or leading project teams
- * Experience with reporting and dashboards is beneficial; however, deep Adaptive Planning modeling expertise is the highest priority
Benefits
- This is a remote position with occasional travel (approximately once per month) for client meetings.
- Benefits vary by compensation type and may include paid time off (PTO), medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, a 401(k) plan, and additional optional benefits.
- Multi-year projects
- We Care About You – We help you meet your career goals and continuously support your efforts in the field.
- The Squires Group will pay you for every qualified professional that you refer and we place.
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