Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Overview

Job Location:
Kansas City Metro Area

Department:

Institutional Finance: Budget

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Budget

Position Title:

Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Job Family Group:

Professional Staff

Job Description Summary:

This position is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Workday Adaptive budget and forecast planning tool and applications, as well as strategically leveraging the system in order for KUMC to maximize the value of system capabilities to all University users and Leadership.

Job Description:

Job Responsibilities

• Trains and mentors budget team member on the budget system and its service delivery model.

• Design and build models in Adaptive from scratch, tailored to organizational needs.

• Manages the day-to-day operations of the Workday Adaptive application including configuration updates, security maintenance, application monitoring, testing of system, reports and integrations.

• Ensure data accuracy and integrity by thoroughly reviewing, reconciling, and improving data inputs and outputs between the Workday and Adaptive platforms.

• Oversee, prepare and provide training and documentation of the Adaptive system and best practices to internal and external users throughout the institution.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and document business requirements for budget process.

• Serve as a subject-matter expert, developing and maintaining the budget system models, reports, dashboards, and templates to meet business needs.

• Identify opportunities to streamline the planning and forecasting processes to improve effectiveness of the budget system.

• Conduct data analysis to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment within Adaptive.

• Stay current on Workday Adaptive Planning updates, features, and best practices to continuously improve performance and functionality.

• Create business processes, systems, and workflows to be efficient and effective.

• Collaborate with the Central Budget Office on institutional wide initiatives.

• Has a strong business acumen and the ability to grasp complex concepts.

• Ability to drive projects forward, provide structure and resources to leaders across KUMC.

• Make data-driven decisions.

• Partners with team to develop and/or enhances budgetary policies, procedures, and processes.

• Partner with team to re-evaluate enhancement of business processes, systems, and workflows to be efficient and effective.

• Review the bi-annual Workday Adaptive release items and determine if they are applicable to KUMC’s Workday Adaptive for implementation.

• On a regular basis, monitor the Workday Adaptive Community for updates and troubleshooting.

• Research and evaluate industry best practices and implement as appropriate.

• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field. Education may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis. Experience used to substitute education is in addition to any required work experience.          

Work Experience:

• Five (5) years relevant work experience

• Three (3) years training or mentoring others

• Experience with programing or design and use of financial, planning and/or ERP systems

• Experience using Workday and Workday Adaptive Budgeting

• In-depth expertise in Adaptive Planning, with strong administrative, modeling, and integration, including troubleshooting and maintaining Adaptive models or other system planning tools.

• Experience with Workday to Adaptive integrations, or comparable sophisticated forecasting tool

• Experience with Workday custom report writing, or comparable sophisticated ERP tool

• Experience with large, complex organizational settings

• Experience identifying and driving process and system optimization

• Experience with data acquisition, modeling, database management (e.g. SQL), and Excel VBA

• Experience building models, reports, and dashboards

• Experience with data analysis and modeling

Preferred Qualifications

Education: Master’s degree in a related field.

Certifications/Licenses:  Workday Adaptive Planning Certificate

Work Experience:

• Minimum eight (8) years relevant experience

• Advanced formula-writing skills within Adaptive or similar robust planning tool

• Experience with system implementations and enhancements

Skills

• Self-directed and detail oriented

• Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills 

• Communication and presentation skills

• Relationship skills

• Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Excel

Required Documents

• Resume

• Cover Letter

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

Employee Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Rate Type:

Salary

Compensation Statement:

The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above. 

Pay Range:

$83,000.00 – $131,000.00

Minimum

$83,000.00

Midpoint

$107,000.00

Maximum

$131,000.00