Assistant Director of Budget Planning and Analysis Systems
Department: Institutional Finance: Budget
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Budget
Position Title: Assistant Director of Budget Planning and Analysis Systems
Job Family Group: Professional Staff
Job Description Summary: This position is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Workday Adaptive budget, forecast and planning tool and application, as well as strategically leveraging the system in order for KUMC to maximize the value of system capabilities to all University and Leadership users.
Job Description: Job Responsibilities
- Manage a Senior Financial Systems Analyst ensuring they are onboarded, trained, and have individual goals and development plans.
- 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.
- Ability to drive projects forward, provide structure and resources to leaders across KUMC.
- 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 degree. 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' experience in Financial Budget, Planning, Analysis and/or Accounting
- Three (3) years' experience mentoring/supervising
- Three (3) years in project management and leading cross-functional teams
- Experience using and programing/design of financial planning and/or ERP systems
- 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 custom report writing
- Experience with large, complex organizational settings
- Experience identifying and driving process and system optimization
Preferred Qualifications Work Experience:
- Experience using Workday and Workday Adaptive Budgeting
- Advanced formula-writing skills within Adaptive or similar robust planning tool
- Experience with system implementations and enhancements
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to be highly self-directed and detail oriented
- Experience building models, reports, and dashboards
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to build relationships and communicate effectively at all levels of an organization
Required Documents
Comprehensive Benefits Package: Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
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: $96,000.00 - $152,000.00
Minimum $96,000.00
Midpoint $124,000.00
Maximum $152,000.00
Application Instructions: To learn more and apply online, please visit https://kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-jobs/job/Kansas-City-Metro-Area/Assistant-Director-of-Budget-Planning-and-Analysis-Systems_JR008175 or go to https://careers.kumc.edu/ and search for position number JR008175.
Applications must be submitted directly through the KU Medical Center website to be considered for this position. Any applications submitted via email or this website will NOT be reviewed or considered.
About KU Medical Center: The University of Kansas Medical Centers mission is to educate exceptional health care professionals through a full range of undergraduate, graduate, professional, postdoctoral and continuing education programs in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions. KU Medical Center also advances the health sciences through world-class research programs; provides compassionate and state-of-the-art patient care in an academic medical center environment; and works with communities in every Kansas county to improve the health of Kansans. Learn more at www.kumc.edu.
Benefits: KUMC offers a range of great benefits that support employees and eligible family members. Our health insurance benefits begin on hire date and KUMC offers other exciting benefits such as paid parental leave, generous employer retirement contributions and other resources to improve health and well-being. For more information, please visit https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The University of Kansas Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, age, protected veteran or disability status, marital status, parental status, or genetic information. http://policy.ku.edu/IOA/nondiscrimination jeid-a4073d1288a75945859e5f87d97ed7b7