Job Description

Summary role description:

Hiring for a Workday Adaptive Lead for the Global Competency Centre of a global logistics leader driving digital transformation and operational excellence.

Company description:

Our client is a global logistics leader with a presence in over 100 countries, committed to innovation, reliability, and customer-focused solutions. Guided by a culture where people make the difference, the organization fosters collaboration, learning, and excellence. As part of its digital transformation to become a $10 billion powerhouse, it is establishing a Global Service Centre in India, to drive operational excellence and innovation. This centre will serve as a strategic hub, enabling seamless global operations, enhancing service delivery, and supporting ambitious growth plans.

Role details:

Role & responsibilities:

Lead the end-to-end Adaptive Planning lifecycle including requirements, design, build, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
Act as the techno-functional SME for Adaptive Planning, managing models, sheets, dimensions, versions, reports, dashboards, and security.
Design scalable planning models for multi-entity, multi-currency environments covering workforce, revenue, expenses, capex, and scenario planning.
Establish model architecture and governance standards including naming conventions, calculations, documentation, and change control.
Manage data strategy and integrations between Adaptive Planning and Workday, ensuring data quality, automation, and reconciliation.
Support FP&A and business users by building dashboards, improving planning processes, and resolving system issues.

Candidate requirements:

7+ years in the Workday ecosystem, including 4+ years of hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning experience (implementation and support).
Experience leading at least one full Adaptive implementation or major expansion as a functional or techno-functional lead.
Strong FP&A domain knowledge including budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, headcount planning, allocations, and variance analysis.
Experience building multi-dimensional financial models (entities, cost centers, accounts, products, projects) and optimizing model performance.
Strong Finance fundamentals, including GL, fixed assets, expenses, chart of accounts, cost centers, financial statements, month-end close, intercompany, and financial data reconciliation.
Good stakeholder communication skills, able to bridge finance teams and technical teams.
Familiarity with financial consolidations such as entity structures, eliminations, roll-forwards, and multi-entity reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

Workday Adaptive Planning certification (Implementation/Admin).
Experience integrating Adaptive with Workday Financials or HCM using ETL, APIs, or file-based integrations.
Experience in global, multi-country and multi-currency environments.
Freight forwarding or logistics industry experience.

Selection Process:

Two technical interviews
HR round

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