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:
- Title / Designation: Workday Adaptive Lead
- Location: Gurgaon, India
- Work mode: Hybrid (3 days WFO)
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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