Senior Financial Systems Analyst - Adaptive Planning

Company Description

Who We Are

AIR Communities owns and operates best-in-class apartment communities in major markets across the country. Our communities are managed by team members who are passionate about providing world class customer service to our residents. At AIR, we value integrity, respect, collaboration, customer focus, and performance. These values are brought to life by our teammates, who are ultimately responsible for our success. When you join our team, you'll work alongside the most dedicated professionals in the industry and open the door to unlimited career opportunities.

Where You Will Work:

Our corporate office is located in the Denver Tech Center. Our office spans the top two floors of the building and features expansive views of the mountains and the downtown skyline. 

AIR values relationships and the benefits from working side by side with teammates, therefore this position will be in-office 5 days a week to support the team.

Job Description

AIR Communities is seeking a Senior Financial Systems Analyst to support, govern, and continuously improve our Workday Adaptive Planning environment. This role serves as a key partner to Finance and Accounting teams, ensuring planning processes are supported by scalable system solutions, reliable reporting, and strong operational practices.

This is a functional administration role focused on system design, model building, business process support, and reporting. We are looking for a collaborative professional with strong communication skills who wants to grow with our new team and the company. The ideal candidate understands not only how to configure Adaptive Planning, but also how system decisions impact business processes, reporting, and organizational outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

System Administration & Support

• Core Administration: Act as the primary functional administrator for Adaptive Planning, managing dimensions, attributes, levels, and organizational hierarchies.
• Model & Formula Development: Hands-on ownership of model architecture, including building and optimizing financial models and writing complex system formulas.
• Sheet Management: Design, configure, and maintain both modeled sheets and cube sheets, demonstrating a deep understanding of when and how to utilize each structure for optimal performance.
• Data Flow & Integrations: Maintain a strong conceptual understanding of how backend integrations and staging tables connect to the front-end application to ensure data integrity (direct developer/ETL coding experience is not required).
• Platform Support: Provide day-to-day support for users, troubleshooting system, data, and sheet performance issues during core planning cycles.

Business Partnership & Communication

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner directly with Finance, Accounting, and leadership to translate complex business requirements into scalable system logic.
• Clear Communication: Translate technical system capabilities into clear, actionable business concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Training & Enablement: Help users across the organization understand system capabilities, features, and modeling best practices.

Process Improvement, Governance, & Reporting

• Reporting Ownership: Develop, maintain, and optimize OfficeConnect/HTML reports and automated reporting packages.
• System Governance: Evaluate upstream and downstream impacts of configuration changes and follow established testing and change management practices.

Documentation: Create and maintain clear documentation for system configurations, model logic, and formula structures to support cross-training and continuity

Qualifications

• Experience: Around 5 years of experience supporting financial systems, planning applications, or enterprise EPM environments (10+ years is not required; we are targeting a growing professional looking to scale with the team).
• Adaptive Expertise: Hands-on administrative experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, including clear proficiency with dimensions, attributes, levels, and sheets.
• Technical Skills: Demonstrated experience building operational models and writing formulas within a planning platform. Advanced Excel skills (including experience with reporting add-ins like OfficeConnect) are required.
• Integration Understandin