Workday Reporting Analyst

Insight Global; North Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a People Systems Analyst – Data & Reporting to own Workday data quality, reporting, and governance. You will build and optimize Workday reports, dashboards, and data processes, ensuring reliable, actionable insights for day-to-day decision making and compliance.

You will partner with People Systems, People Analytics, Technology, and Data Stewards to profile data, document rules, and resolve quality issues while contributing to digital transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in HR systems, people data, Workday reporting, or similar data-focused roles.
• Hands-on experience with Workday data, reports, and related modules such as worker, organization, job profile, and compensation.
• Experience building or supporting Workday custom reports, dashboards, prompts, and scheduled delivery.
• Strong analytical skills including profiling, validation, reconciliation, root-cause analysis, and issue investigation.
• Ability to translate business processes into data definitions, reporting requirements, and analytics needs.
• Comfort creating data dictionaries, glossaries, and source-to-report mappings.
• Understanding or willingness to learn data governance concepts like data stewardship, lineage, privacy, and retention.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of turning ambiguity into structured processes.
• Build trust with stakeholders through clear documentation and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Workday reporting views, dashboards, worklets, and schedules for operational needs.
• Profile, validate, reconcile, and troubleshoot Workday data across extracts, reports, and data lake outputs.
• Support data observability routines by monitoring data freshness, completeness, and lineage signals.
• Document Workday field definitions, business rules, transformations, mappings, and ownership clearly.
• Collaborate with People Systems and stakeholders to ensure data quality and governance across modules.

Skills

Workday data

Workday reports

Data profiling

Data governance

Documentation

Data reconciliation

Observability

Job description

Job Description

As the People Systems Analyst – Data & Reporting, you will be the Workday-focused data and reporting expert who helps this major retail company make People data trusted, understandable, and actionable. You will understand how people process, system configuration, transactions, and operational practices shape the data we rely on, while also building and improving Workday reports, dashboards, worklets, scheduled reporting, alerts, and operational reporting experiences. Working closely with People Systems, People Analytics, Technology, and People Data Stewards, you will help identify critical data modules, document business rules, investigate quality issues, support reconciliation and observability routines, and deliver reliable Workday-native reporting that enables day-to-day decision-making, compliance monitoring, self-service insights, automation, and digital transformation.

Partnering with People Systems and functional teams to understand how process design, configuration changes, integrations, effective dating, corrections, rescinds, and retroactive transactions impact downstream People data. Profiling, validating, reconciling, and troubleshooting Workday data across extracts, reports, dashboards, data lake tables, and operational outputs to identify gaps, inconsistencies, duplicates, outliers, and root causes. Supporting data observability routines by monitoring freshness, completeness, volume, schema changes, reference data changes, lineage signals, and recurring data quality patterns for priority People data assets. Documenting Workday field definitions, business rules, transformation logic, module ownership, data mappings, known limitations, and issue resolution steps in a clear and reusable way. Working with People Data Stewards to identify and document critical data elements across Workday modules such as worker, position, organization, job profile, compensation, absence, talent, performance, learning, recruiting, and workforce management data. Helping build and maintain the People business glossary and data catalogue by capturing plain-language definitions, system sources, owners, classifications, lineage, downstream reports, and approved usage guidance. Performing impact analysis for Workday configuration changes, process changes, new modules, integrations, data fixes, and transformation initiatives to understand downstream reporting, analytics, data lake, and governance implications. Providing data operational support by triaging issues, maintaining issue logs, documenting root causes, validating fixes, coordinating remediation, and helping ensure recurring data processes run reliably. Supporting implementation of data standards, naming conventions, quality rules, validation routines, documentation practices, privacy classifications, and stewardship workflows for People system data. Building, maintaining, and enhancing Workday custom reports, dashboards, worklets, prompts, filters, calculated fields, report schedules, report groups, and report delivery options that support operational and system reporting needs. Designing Workday reporting views and operational dashboards that help People teams monitor workforce activity, transactions, exceptions, process outcomes, compliance items, and recurring People Operations routines directly in Workday. Developing notification-enabled reporting solutions, event-based alerts, scheduled outputs, and business process reporting that help users act on system events, criteria changes, exceptions, and completion signals. Troubleshooting report access, prompts, filters, output formats, row counts, security constraints, performance issues, run history, scheduled processes, and user questions in partnership with People Systems and functional subject matter experts.

Skills and Requirements

• You have 3+ years of experience in HR systems, people data, Workday and other HR system reporting, HR operations, data governance, or a similar data-focused role.
• You have hands-on experience with Workday data, reports, business processes, effective dating, organizations, positions, workers, job profiles, compensation, absence, or related People modules.
• You have hands-on experience building or supporting Workday custom reports, dashboards, worklets, prompts, filters, calculated fields, scheduled report delivery, and operational reporting processes.
• You are curious about how system transactions become data and can connect process steps, system configuration, integrations, reporting logic, and downstream data impacts.
• You bring strong analytical skills, including data profiling, validation, reconciliation, root-cause analysis, issue investigation, impact assessment, and structured documentation.
• You can translate between business process language, system transformation logic, data definitions, reporting requirements, data quality rules, and analytics needs.
• You are comfortable creating documentation such as data dictionaries, business glossaries, source-to-report mappings, issue logs, validation checklists, process notes, and decision records.
• You understand, or are excited to learn, data governance concepts such as critical data elements, data stewardship, data ownership, data catalogues, quality rules, lineage, classification, access, privacy, retention, and responsible use.
• You are detail-oriented, highly organized, and comfortable turning ambiguity into structure while supporting operational needs and longer-term transformation work.
• You build trust across stakeholders by asking good questions, documenting clearly, following through on issues, and balancing curiosity with strong judgment around sensitive People data.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day.

We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters.

Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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