Workday Adaptive Planning Architect - US - Remote

Worldwide Clinical Trials · Nebraska, United States · 3 wk ago

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The Workday Adaptive Planning Architect at Worldwide Clinical Trials serves as the enterprise owner and strategic architect for the Adaptive Planning platform, focusing on enabling scalable financial, operational, and workforce planning aligned with business strategy.

About the role

This role owns the Adaptive product vision and roadmap, ensuring the platform supports the needs of Corporate and Operations FP&A and HR. The Architect partners closely with Finance and HR leadership to translate planning requirements into secure, well-governed, and high-performing models, integrations, and reporting solutions.

Responsibilities

Owns the Adaptive product vision and roadmap, ensuring the platform enables scalable financial, operational, and workforce planning aligned with business strategy.
Partners closely with Finance and HR leadership to translate planning requirements into secure, well-governed, and high-performing models, integrations, and reporting solutions.
Monitors, interprets, and implements complex international payroll legislation and tax compliance updates across multiple jurisdictions.
Ensures the platform supports the needs of Corporate and Operations FP&A and HR.
Enforces standards for OfficeConnect and executive-level reporting.
Manages bi-annual release adoption, AI strategy for Adaptive, OfficeConnect governance, integrations, security, and overall architectural integrity.

Requirements

Strong understanding of FP&A, financial planning, operational planning, and workforce management processes.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex planning concepts into business-ready language.
Strategic mindset with strong architectural and systems-thinking capabilities.
High attention to detail with a strong focus on governance, data quality, and auditability.
Comfortable operating as a platform owner in a global, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in FP&A systems, enterprise planning, or financial systems architecture.
Workday Pro Adaptive Planning Certification.
Deep hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning as an architect, lead administrator, or consultant.
Strong understanding of enterprise financial modeling, forecasting, scenario planning, and workforce planning.
Experience owning planning platforms, including roadmap definition, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
Experience designing and supporting integrations between planning, ERP, HCM, and payroll systems.
Familiarity with Workday HCM strongly preferred.
Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled planning or forecasting capabilities preferred.
Strong project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to work independently and serve as the design authority for enterprise planning architecture.
Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related fields.

Skills

Exceptional attention to detail and ability to maintain a high degree of accuracy while working to strict, tight deadlines.
Strong interpersonal and written communication skills to effectively manage employee queries and cross-departmental collaboration.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and serve as the design authority for enterprise planning architecture.

Benefits

Join a global team of over 3,500+ experts, bright thinkers, dreamers, and doers who are changing the way the world experiences CROs. We are committed to enabling professionals from all backgrounds and experiences to succeed and thrive.

Pay

We offer competitive compensation packages tailored to individual performance and experience.

Schedule

We offer flexible schedules to accommodate your needs.