Senior Adaptive Planning Analyst

University of Central Florida•Orlando, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

UCF IT is seeking a senior-level functional and technical resource to design, administer, enhance, and optimize the university’s Workday Adaptive Planning environment. The analyst partners 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 a high degree of independence in analyzing requirements, designing and configuring planning models, troubleshooting advanced issues, improving processes, developing reporting and analytics, supporting major planning cycles, and providing subject-matter expertise and guidance. The position supports UCF’s financial and operational planning through configuration and administration of Adaptive Planning, financial modeling, integrations and reconciliations, reporting, business analysis, process optimization, governance, and knowledge transfer. It is an on-site role at UCF, with on-site presence as an essential function. The position may involve driving to locations on and off campus for University business and requires a valid Class E driver’s license. The anticipated salary range is $89,076–$135,000; final salary depends on qualifications, experience, and internal equity. The appointment is regular, with a Monday–Friday schedule from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. UCF benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending, an Employee Assistance Program, paid annual and sick time off, paid holidays, retirement savings options, employee discounts, and education assistance. Applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer; visa sponsorship, H-1B transfers, and employment-based visa processing for applicants sponsored by another employer are unavailable. UCF expects employees to reside in Florida when employment begins unless the posting explicitly states otherwise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and 9 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree; or an equivalent combination of education and experience pursuant to Fla. Stat. 112.219(6).
Significant hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning experience.
Valid Class E driver’s license.
Authorization to work for any U.S. employer; visa sponsorship, H-1B transfers, and employment-based visa processing for individuals currently sponsored by another employer are not available.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior functional and technical resource for Workday Adaptive Planning.
Independently configure, maintain, and enhance models, sheets, dimensions, levels, accounts, attributes, assumptions, versions, planning structures, calculations, allocations, and business rules.
Evaluate existing configurations and recommend improvements to simplify models, improve performance, and increase maintainability.
Support annual budget, forecast, multi-year planning, scenario modeling, and other planning cycles.
Troubleshoot complex configuration, calculation, security, data, and performance issues, and maintain configuration and planning standards under established governance and change control.
Partner with Finance and Budget leadership to design and maintain financial and operational planning models.
Develop models for operating budgets, personnel and position planning, revenue and expense forecasting, organizational planning, and long-range projections.
Build scenario and sensitivity models; develop and maintain institutional assumptions, planning drivers, and standardized methodologies.
Analyze budget, forecast, actual, and prior-period results to identify underlying drivers, and automate manual planning activities to reduce reliance on offline spreadsheets.
Support integrations among Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and other enterprise systems.
Partner with integration and technical teams to define data requirements, mappings, transformation rules, schedules, and validation processes.
Validate inbound and outbound data; reconcile financial, personnel, position, organizational, and planning data between source systems and Adaptive Planning; diagnose discrepancies; coordinate resolution; and establish repeatable reconciliation and data-quality controls.
Design and maintain Adaptive Planning reports, dashboards, matrices, and management reporting solutions.
Develop executive and operational reporting for budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances, trends, scenarios, and key planning assumptions.
Translate complex financial information into decision-support tools, determine reporting requirements with stakeholders, and improve self-service reporting capabilities.
Lead requirements discussions and document current-state processes, business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
Translate requirements into Adaptive Planning configuration, solution designs, and technical specifications.
Identify opportunities to streamline, standardize, automate, or eliminate manual planning activities; evaluate enhancements for business value, platform capabilities, maintainability, controls, and downstream impact.
Lead or support unit, UAT, regression, and production validation, and develop process and configuration documentation, test scripts, procedures, and training materials.
Serve as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor on Workday Adaptive Planning capabilities and recommended practices.
Provide functional and technical guidance to analysts, business users, and project teams; help establish design standards, governance, documentation expectations, and change-control procedures.
Review proposed changes for downstream and architectural impacts; provide knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training; maintain awareness of releases and emerging capabilities; and contribute to the long-term Adaptive Planning roadmap and operating model.