Workday Adaptive Planning Analyst

Modeling in Adaptive Planning

• Designing workforce planning models for headcount, fulfilment & Gaps, Supply vs demand, and scenario analysis.
• Extensively worked on Models, Sheets, Dashboards, Reports and integrations
• Implementing custom calculations, assumptions, and business rules.
• Ensuring Adaptive models align with FP&A requirements.
• Data Integration
• Connecting Adaptive with Workday HCM and Prism on various tenants
• Handling data transformation & validation to ensure accuracy in reports.
• Performance Optimization
• Improving model efficiency by reducing formula complexity and optimizing data structures.
• Managing large datasets and ensuring real-time sync between Adaptive & external systems.
• Automating workflows for forecast submission & approval processes.
• Extraction of Adaptive data and integration with 3rd party tools.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in HR Technology projects and teams.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience specifically in configuring and managing Adaptive Planning workforce planning modules within the Workday platform.
• Strong knowledge on designing and building complex Models, Sheets, Dashboards, Reporting, Administration, and Integrations etc., HR processes and practices, particularly in the areas of Strategic Workforce Planning.
• Responsible for planning, designing, configuring, and testing solution options in Workday Adaptive Planning, ensuring alignment with organizational workforce planning strategies and policies.
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into requirements, conduct gap analysis, and recommend appropriate solutions and business process workflows.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for business stakeholders, to support workforce planning processes such as Headcount & Cost Planning, Resource & Capacity Planning, Strategic Workforce Planning, and Talent Planning.
• Collaborate with Skills, Reporting and business end-users to implement and optimize functionalities within Workday.
• Assist production support analysts for Workday Adaptive Planning, including analysis and troubleshooting of design, configurations, business processes, integrations, and data.
• Create and maintain comprehensive product documentation, including updates for user guides, job aids, and training materials.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, providing insights and recommendations regarding workforce planning strategies, processes, and technology solutions.
• Manage integrations with other planning systems such as Workday Prism Analytics, Tableau, Core HCM and Enterprise Skill Assessment tools.
• Familiarity with Technology Development Life Cycle (TDLC) and Agile product delivery frameworks, as well as tools such as Rally, to facilitate efficient project management and collaboration.

Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

• Experience using Rally Agile tool
• Ability to create Test Scenarios and Cases

Here are the pre-screening questions that might help to identify right candidates. What experience does the candidate have working with workforce data like headcount, salaries, positions, or skills? How have the candidate used that data in reporting or analysis.Experience working with Workday Adaptive Planning or similar analytical tools? Describe a model built or supported (e.g., headcount or cost planning)?Focus on problem solving skills. If a workforce forecast is showing incorrect headcount or cost totals, how the candidate would go about identifying and fixing the issue. Describe a time the candidate had to learn a new system or concept and explained it to others?