Workday Adaptive Planning Senior Manager
About The Position
Protiviti is seeking a Workday Adaptive Planning Senior Manager to help grow its Technology Consulting practice. The role combines client delivery, solution leadership, practice development, people leadership, and business development. The Senior Manager leads Workday Adaptive Planning implementations and helps organizations improve planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. The position involves partnering with clients to address complex business problems, designing solutions using current tools and methods, building lasting client relationships, and representing Protiviti in the business community. The Senior Manager oversees project work plans and mentors and develops teams. The role also contributes to proposals, strategies to win new business, and the growth of Workday Adaptive Planning and related offerings. Protiviti uses a hybrid workplace model, combining purposeful in-person work with remote work. The balance varies by client, project, team, and other business factors. Work may take place in local Protiviti offices and at client sites, with local or out-of-state travel depending on project needs and client commitments.
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 implementation and/or major optimization programs.
- Experience designing scalable Adaptive Planning solutions for complex business requirements.
- Experience managing project plans, budgets, timelines, priorities, and deliverables.
- Experience guiding teams through requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, training, deployment, and post-implementation activities.
- Experience analyzing planning processes and identifying improvements to data accuracy, reporting flow, and decision-making.
- Experience coordinating Workday Adaptive Planning integrations and related platform activities.
- Technical knowledge of the Workday Adaptive Planning product suite and ability to resolve complex implementation challenges.
- Ability to analyze system linkages, data models, financial planning processes, reporting requirements, and data.
- Experience establishing business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
- Experience pursuing business development opportunities and developing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
- Ability to translate and communicate challenges to client personnel, including executives.
- Leadership and direct supervisory experience, including performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, work oversight and review, cross-team coordination, and motivating teams.
- 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, or similar.
- Experience in professional services.
Responsibilities
- Lead Workday Adaptive Planning implementations 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 opportunities to improve 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.
- Oversee successful completion of project work plans and deliver quality client work.
- Build and maintain relationships with client personnel, including senior executives, and provide exceptional client experiences.
- Develop business relationships and a professional network, represent Protiviti in the market, and identify opportunities to win new work or clientele.
- Contribute to client proposals and strategies to win new business and help grow the practice.
- Lead and supervise teams, including performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, review of work, coordination across teams, and motivating team members.
- Promote a positive team culture and create development opportunities, including contributing to training creation and rollout.
- Stay current on Workday Adaptive Planning capabilities, connected planning, integrations, and platform developments.
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan providing eligible employees with additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities; target opportunity is 14%.
- Medical coverage.
- Dental coverage.
- Vision coverage.
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
- Life and accident insurance.
- Adoption and fertility assistance.
- Paid parental leave of up to 10 weeks.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Company 401(k) savings and investment plan with a 50% employer match 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
