Workday Adaptive Planning Senior Manager

Protiviti • Atlanta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Protiviti is seeking a Workday Adaptive Planning Senior Manager to join its growing Technology Consulting team. The role combines client delivery, solution leadership, practice development, people leadership, and business development to help grow Protiviti’s Workday Adaptive Planning capabilities.

The Senior Manager partners with clients to transform their businesses, address risks, and respond to change. They develop strategies and solutions for complex business problems, build lasting client relationships through quality delivery, represent Protiviti in the business community, and mentor teams. The position also oversees successful completion of project work plans and contributes to practice growth by identifying opportunities and pursuing new work.

The role leads Workday Adaptive Planning implementations and optimization initiatives, helping organizations improve planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. It requires connecting business strategy and finance processes with Adaptive Planning capabilities, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery leadership, and keeping current with platform capabilities, integrations, connected planning, and developments.

The position follows Protiviti’s hybrid workplace model, combining in-person work at local offices and client sites with remote work. The balance varies according to client, project, team, and other business factors. Local or out-of-state travel may be required based on project and client needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience with Workday products, financial planning and analysis, enterprise performance management, finance transformation, or related consulting work.
• Demonstrated experience leading Workday Adaptive Planning implementations or major optimization programs.
• Demonstrated experience designing scalable Adaptive Planning solutions for complex business requirements.
• Demonstrated experience managing project plans, budgets, timelines, priorities, and deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience guiding teams through implementation lifecycle activities, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, training, deployment, and post-implementation work.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing client planning processes and coordinating integrations and related platform activities.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance across Workday Adaptive Planning and resolving complex implementation challenges.
• Demonstrated analytical skills involving system linkages, data models, financial planning processes, reporting requirements, and data interpretation.
• Demonstrated experience establishing business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
• Demonstrated experience pursuing business development opportunities and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
• Demonstrated leadership and direct supervisory experience, including performance appraisals, mentoring, coaching, work oversight, cross-team coordination, and motivating teams.
• Ability to translate and communicate challenges to client personnel, including executives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certification such as Workday Adaptive Planning certification.
• Experience in professional services.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday Adaptive Planning implementation and major optimization programs.
• Design scalable Adaptive Planning solutions based on complex business requirements.
• Manage project plans, budgets, timelines, priorities, and deliverables for planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting initiatives.
• Guide teams through requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, training, deployment, and post-implementation activities.
• Analyze client planning processes and identify improvements to data accuracy, reporting flow, and decision-making.
• Coordinate Workday Adaptive Planning integrations and related platform activities to support connected planning.
• Provide technical guidance across the Workday Adaptive Planning product suite and resolve complex implementation challenges.
• Apply analytical thinking to system linkages, data models, financial planning processes, and reporting requirements; evaluate, organize, summarize, and interpret data.
• Build and cultivate business relationships and a professional network, including relationships with senior executives.
• Pursue business development opportunities, identify and implement strategies to obtain new work or clientele, and contribute to client proposals and strategies to win new business.
• Translate and communicate challenges to client personnel, including executives.
• Lead and supervise teams, including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, overseeing and reviewing work, coordinating across teams, and motivating team members.
• Oversee project work plans and foster positive team culture and open communication.
• Create development opportunities for others, including participating in training creation and rollout.
• Build relationships, identify market opportunities, and grow the practice by integrating Workday Adaptive Planning and related solutions.

Benefits

• Annual bonus plan with eligible employees receiving additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities; the target opportunity for this job is 14%.
• Medical coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• Vision coverage.
• Flexible spending and health savings healthcare accounts.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Adoption and fertility assistance.
• Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions.
• Choice Time Off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time; new hires receive up to 20 days per calendar year, with the amount varying by years of service.
• Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior