Senior People Analytics & Workday Reporting Lead

VideoRay; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

VideoRay is seeking a Senior People Analytics Analyst to serve as a senior individual contributor within the Workday HRIS team, delivering analytical expertise and scalable reporting solutions. You will partner with HR, Finance, and business leaders to shape the People Analytics roadmap and develop dashboards and reports using Workday, Power BI, and other tools.

The role translates data into actionable insights, builds executive-ready narratives, and mentors team members while ensuring data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, IT/MIS, Data Science, Statistics, Math or related fields, or 4+ years of professional experience in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of experience including 3+ years in a People/HR data analytics and reporting capacity, with in‑depth knowledge of People/HR reporting and data, including HR, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Learning, and Talent.
• In‑depth experience of building and maintaining advanced Workday HCM reports and dashboards, including advanced calculated fields.
• Experience with integrating to a data warehouse/data lake and consolidating data from multiple sources.
• Experience and familiarity with statistical analysis and data visualization tools, such as PowerBI or Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of day-to-day reporting deliverables and operational support of report requests, inquiries and tickets. Produce and deliver standard and customized People reports (monthly, quarterly and annual), using Workday and Power BI primarily with actionable insights.
• Proactively develop and enhance Workday HCM dashboards, facilitate the definition and development of business and predictive KPIs and metrics across the People/HR function, and recommend the most effective tools for delivery.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to define business problems, analyze data, and present insights and dashboards that support informed people‑related decisions and translate findings into meaningful recommendations for leadership.
• Summarizes insights and present findings to a range of audiences, including executives, business leaders, hiring managers and People/HR team members.
• Understands and analyzes end‑to‑end processes and underlying data from multiple sources to identify data inconsistencies and make recommendations.
• Translate workforce trends into clear, compelling narratives and executive‑ready presentations that provide leaders with meaningful context, key drivers, and potential actions.
• Participates in and leads data/analytics projects, involved in planning and scoping, requirements and specifications development, prototyping and playback, testing, and deployment (including change management tasks such as communications and training).
• Stays up to date with latest industry research and leading practices in People/HR analytics and actively participates in Workday Community and other forums.
• Provide reporting and analytics training and guidance to end users.
• Adhere to data privacy, access, security, system change control, and reporting governance requirements.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to identify workforce trends and provide analytical support for business discussions.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition on recruiting metrics, time‑to‑fill, hiring trends, candidate pipelines, and workforce demand.
• Partner with Total Rewards on compensation, pay equity, market competitiveness, incentive, and benefits analytics.
• Collaborate with Talent Management on performance, succession, career movement, and organizational capability analytics.
• Partner with Finance to support workforce planning, headcount reconciliation, forecasting, and related workforce metrics.
• Partner with HRIS to ensure appropriate security, data access, and reporting governance.
• Support the testing and validation of Workday releases and system changes affecting workforce reporting and analytics.
• Ensure all reporting activities and initiatives align with company objectives, P&C strategies, and compliance requirements.
• Other duties as assigned by Total Rewards leadership.

Skills

People analytics

Data analysis

Storytelling / presentations

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years experience

Tools

Workday HCM

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Job description

VideoRay is seeking a Senior People Analytics Analyst to serve as a senior individual contributor within the Workday HRIS team, delivering analytical expertise and scalable reporting solutions. You will partner with HR, Finance, and business leaders to shape the People Analytics roadmap and develop dashboards and reports using Workday, Power BI, and other tools.

The role translates data into actionable insights, builds executive-ready narratives, and mentors team members while ensuring data