The Joint Commission Hiring for Sr Budget Analyst with Workday Adaptive Planning experience – hybrid work model at Oakbrook Terrace, IL Full Time

Responsibilities:

Position Accountabilities:

• Assists in the development of the company’s overall budgets and forecasts both short and long term.

• Assists budget preparers with Adaptive Planning at the department level, provides advice and analysis to budget preparers to increase the efficiency of the company’s spending. Has administrative rights to set up security, add dimensions, creating HTML and Office Connect s. Facilitates resolutions of issue /problems that can affect the completion of the budget/forecast.

• Administers and provides management variance analysis for budget vs monthly actual results for budgets and forecasts.

• Develops and conducts complex analysis of product line that is used as a management tool for making business decisions. Facilitates the annual management fee (shared services) preparation for intercompany charges between the subsidiary company.

• Develops budget and forecast materials and assists in developing training materials.

• Prepares Enterprise budgeted balance sheet and cash flow.

• Prepares ad-hoc modeling and analysis operating independently with little supervision.

• Develops, organizes, and maintains files, documents, and materials relating to budgetary practices according to company’s policies.

• Tracks central office and field manpower throughout the budgeting and forecast cycles. Creates workforce analysis (WAR) in Adaptive Planning. Ensures correct number of positions per cost center and maintains open, new and splits in Adaptive for each budget/forecast cycle.

• Ensures positions coming from iCMS are budgeted and is the first approver on requests to fill open positions and enable recruitment to begin.

• Runs s prior to final timecard to ensure cost center product line combinations are correct ensuring nothing from payroll goes to suspense. Educates managers on how to correctly complete.

• Assists with 990 tax return providing confidential compensation ing. Prepares annual payroll statistics for 990 ing.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field is required. CPA preferred.
• Seven to ten years’ experience in a financial planning or accountant position.
• Excellent analytical, technical, problem-solving and project management skills to perform advanced financial analyses and complex tasks as well as ability to educate and mentor staff.
• Financial modeling at P&L level experience preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with the ability to create pivot tables and perform VLOOKUPs, nested if statements and logic formulas.
• Previous experience with Workday Adaptive Planning software a must.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to maintain confidential information (e.g., salaries)
• Experience working in multi-entity and product line businesses.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities across stakeholders.