Senior Manager, Workday Reporting & Analytics
$100,000–$140,000 year
RemoteSt. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Own the day-to-day operations of Workday reporting, including report intake, prioritization, assignment, quality review, administration, case management, and ongoing maintenance. Lead and manage a team of 2 to 3 individual contributors responsible for Workday reporting, analytics support, report administration, and content governance. Establish and maintain Workday report nomenclature, metadata standards, naming conventions, report descriptions, ownership documentation, and lifecycle controls. Govern and administer reporting content within the People Analytics Marketplace/Hub, ensuring content is accurate, current, well-organized, and easy for stakeholders to understand. Build, test, maintain, and optimize advanced Workday reports, including Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, calculated fields, dashboards, discovery boards, and scorecards. Lead quality assurance activities for new and existing Workday reporting solutions, including validation, peer review, user acceptance support, and production monitoring. Develop and maintain documentation, data dictionaries, report inventories, user guidance, and governance materials to support consistent reporting practices. Partner with HR, HR Technology, HRIS, Payroll, Finance, Compensation, Talent, HR Business Partners, and business stakeholders to understand reporting needs and translate requirements into scalable reporting solutions. Elicit complex business requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis to define reporting needs, intended users, and business outcomes. Set and lead execution of the Workday reporting plan, including strategies and templates to present HR data in a meaningful, consistent, and actionable way. Ensure Workday reporting aligns with HR data governance, privacy, compliance, and security expectations, including appropriate access, usage, and handling of sensitive employee data. Troubleshoot reporting, data, and system issues, taking ownership through resolution and engaging cross-functional partners as needed. Identify opportunities to optimize reporting processes, reduce duplication, improve report usability, and strengthen trust in HR data. Provide coaching, feedback, and development support to team members, including prioritization guidance, performance management, and capability building. Communicate reporting
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 10 to 15 years of general experience in data, analytics, reporting, HR systems, business intelligence or related disciplines preferred
- 3 to 6 years of managerial experience preferred, including experience leading direct reports or cross-functional reporting resources
- Significant hands-on experience with Workday reporting required
- Experience leading reporting governance, report operations, data quality or analytics administration within HR or a similarly complex function preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business Administration, Computer and Information Science, Accounting, Human Resources, Analytics, Data Science or a related field
- Experience with Workday Prism, data models or related analytics tools preferred
- Proficiency with Excel and data validation techniques
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Qlik, ThoughtSpot or similar platforms preferred
- Ability to review, validate and improve reports created by others for accuracy, usability and alignment to business purpose
- Strong understanding of HR data, workforce analytics, Workday reporting and HR business processes
- Ability to manage complexity, evaluate ambiguous information and define practical solutions
- Strong planning, organizing and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to build effective teams, set clear expectations and hold team members accountable for delivery and quality
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex reporting and data concepts into clear, practical business language
- Sound judgment and decision quality, including knowing when to resolve issues independently and when to escalate
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy, consistency and governance
- Ability to optimize work processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, usability and stakeholder experience
- Demonstrated customer-service orientation and ability to build trusted relationships with HR and business stakeholders
- Ability to lead through change, support adoption of new reporting standards and reinforce consistent reporting practices across HR
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