Workday Manager, HR Reporting & Analytics

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of analysts/consultants/developers (1–3), providing guidance, feedback, and career development.
• Consult with HR functional teams and HR Business Partners/Generalists to understand needs, assess ROI and prioritize work.
• Utilize and enhance team standards to ensure a consistent reporting environment and customer experience.
• Play a lead role in the establishment of global definitions and practices.
• Support the rollout of a third-party people analytics platform by overseeing requirements creation, data mapping, UAT, validation, and end-user enablement and training.
• Expand reporting of team KPIs (project and ticket load, adoption, self-service enablement), driving continuous improvement.

Hands-on delivery

• Translate stakeholder questions into clear requirements; consult with customers to connect insights to decisions and actions.
• Monitor data quality and reconcile across sources; proactively identify enhancements to improve accuracy, performance, and user experience.
• Leverage Workday capabilities (Report Writer, prompts/filters, calculated fields, matrix/advanced reports, scheduling, security) to deliver scalable outputs.
• Partner with peers in HRIS and IT to ensure governance, security, and continuous improvement of reporting solutions.

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Workday reporting.
• Prior experience mentoring, coaching, or informally leading peers; 1+ years of people management experience preferred (or equivalent team lead experience with readiness to step into people leadership).
• Understanding of HR functions and processes; ability to connect data to business decisions.
• Ability to manage work from inception to adoption; strong program/change management skills.
• Demonstrated advanced experience creating Workday reports, calculated fields, dashboards and security considerations.
• Experience designing/using Workday Prism data sources, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets.
• Experience with multiple Workday HCM modules (i.e. Core, Time/absence, Learning, Payroll, Recruiting).
• Hands-on experience implementing or managing a third-party people analytics platform (e.g., Visier, ChartHop, Crunchr, One Model, or others) preferred.
• Strong Excel skills for use with data review and testing.
• Comfortable navigating Workday security domains and following data governance practices; exercises excellent judgment with sensitive data.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on automation, self-service enablement, and continuous improvement.
• Clear, concise communication skills; able to explain technical solutions in business-friendly terms.
• Excellent problem-solving and systems thinking; curiosity to ask “why” and iterate on solutions.
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through; adaptable to changing priorities.
• Collaborative working style and strong relationship-building skills across global teams.