Senior Adaptive Planning Analyst

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The Opportunity :

UCF IT is seeking to hire a Senior Adaptive Planning Analyst. This position is a senior-level functional and technical resource responsible for the design, administration, enhancement, and optimization of UCF's Workday Adaptive Planning environment, partnering with Finance, Budget, Human Resources, institutional leadership, and technology teams to translate complex planning and reporting requirements into scalable, maintainable system solutions. The role requires significant hands-on Adaptive Planning experience and operates with a high degree of independence to analyze complex requirements, design and configure planning models, troubleshoot advanced issues, improve established processes, develop reporting and analytics, support major planning cycles, and provide subject-matter expertise and guidance to stakeholders and other analysts.

Responsibilities:

ADAPTIVE PLANNING ADMINISTRATION AND CONFIGURATION:

• •Serves as a senior functional and technical resource for Workday Adaptive Planning. Independently configures, maintains, and enhances models, sheets, dimensions, levels, accounts, attributes, assumptions, versions, planning structures, calculations, allocations, and business rules.
• •Evaluates existing configuration and recommends improvements that simplify models, improve performance, and increase maintainability; supports annual budget, forecast, multi-year planning, scenario modeling, and other planning cycles; troubleshoots complex configuration, calculation, security, data, and performance issues; and maintains configuration and planning standards under established governance and change control.

FINANCIAL PLANNING AND MODELING :

• •Partners with Finance and Budget leadership to design and maintain financial and operational planning models. Develops models for operating budgets, personnel and position planning, revenue and expense forecasting, organizational planning, and long-range projections.
• •Builds scenario and sensitivity models; develops and maintains institutional assumptions, planning drivers, and standardized methodologies; analyzes budget, forecast, actual, and prior-period results to identify underlying drivers; and automates manual planning activities to reduce reliance on offline spreadsheets.

DATA INTEGRATION AND RECONCILIATION:

• •Supports integrations among Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and other enterprise systems. Partners with integration and technical teams to define data requirements, mappings, transformation rules, schedules, and validation processes.
• •Validates inbound and outbound data; reconciles financial, personnel, position, organizational, and planning data between source systems and Adaptive Planning; diagnoses discrepancies; coordinates resolution; and establishes repeatable reconciliation and data-quality controls.

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS:

• •Designs and maintains Adaptive Planning reports, dashboards, matrices, and management reporting solutions. Develops executive and operational reporting for budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, trends, scenarios, and key planning assumptions.
• •Translates complex financial information into clear decision-support tools; partners with stakeholders to determine reporting requirements and sustainable solutions; and improves self-service reporting capabilities for Finance, Budget, and organizational leadership.

BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION :

• •Leads requirements discussions and documents current-state processes, business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• •Translates requirements into Adaptive Planning configuration, solution designs, and technical specifications; identifies opportunities to streamline, standardize, automate, or eliminate manual planning activities; evaluates enhancements for business value, platform capabilities, maintainability, controls, and downstream impact; leads/supports unit, UAT, regression, and production validation; and develops process/configuration documentation, test scripts, procedures, and training materials.

LEADERSHIP, GOVERNANCE, AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER:

• •Serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor on Workday Adaptive Planning capabilities and recommended practices.
• •Provides functional and technical guidance to analysts, business users, and project teams; helps establish design standards, governance, documentation expectations, and change-control procedures; reviews proposed changes for downstream and architectural impacts; provides knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training; maintains awareness of releases and emerging capabilities; and contributes to the long-term Adaptive Planning roadmap and operating model.

Minimum Qualifications :

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience; or High School Diploma (or equivalent) and 9 years of relevant work experience in lieu of degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience pursuant to Fla. Stat. 112.219(6) .

Preferred Qualifications :

• •Experience supporting integrations among Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and other enterprise systems.
• •Demonstrated experience evaluating existing configurations and making improvement recommendations that support organizational goals, increase efficiency, and support annual budget.
• •Ability to collaborate and engage with stakeholders of various leadership levels from partner offices across the university.
• •Experience designing and maintaining reports, dashboards, and management reporting solutions.

Special Instructions to the Applicants :

• •Position requires a valid Class E driver’s license. The position may involve driving to various locations on and off campus to conduct University business.
• •The anticipated salary range for this position is $89,076 - $135,000. The final salary will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, experience, and internal equity considerations.
• •If you are selected as the final candidate for an employment opportunity, both your position and salary will be significantly based upon the information that you have provided in your application for employment. We urge you to please take the time to complete the application in its entirety.
• •All applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position, and the university cannot accommodate H‑1B transfers or employment-based visa processing for individuals currently sponsored by another employer.
• •This role requires the successful candidate to work on-site at UCF as their primary work location. On-site presence is an essential function of this role.
• •Classification Title: Application Systems Analyst IV

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