Senior Workday Reporting Analyst — Data & Insights

Southland Industries; Carrollton (TX); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company match

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Annual bonus program

Paid holidays, vacation, and personal/

Parental leave

Professional development opportunities

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Southland Industries is seeking a Senior Business Analyst focusing on Workday Reporting to lead design, governance and continuous improvement of the Workday reporting environment. You will liaise with HRIS, Payroll, Finance and IT to ensure timely, accurate reporting and support executive and ad hoc reporting needs.

The ideal candidate brings deep Workday reporting knowledge, strong business analysis skills and data governance expertise, enabling data-driven decision making across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of progressive responsibility in a Business Analyst, HRIS Analyst, Reporting Analyst, Systems Analyst, or related role.
• Experience administering and supporting Workday reporting capabilities in a production environment. Experience developing Workday Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, Dashboards, and Calculated Fields.
• Experience supporting enterprise reporting governance, reporting architecture, and data quality initiatives.
• Knowledge of enterprise data governance and reporting standards.
• Workday Reporting certification or equivalent Workday reporting experience.
• Strong technical verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills focused on business processes and technology solutions.
• Strong understanding of business process mapping and process optimization methodologies.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of organizational readiness and change management principles.
• Strong experience developing and supporting Workday reports, dashboards, scorecards, and calculated fields.
• Strong understanding of Workday business objects, report writer, report security, and reporting best practices.
• Experience supporting HR, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, Compensation, Time Tracking, and organizational reporting.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable reporting solutions.
• Experience supporting reporting architecture and enterprise reporting governance.
• Working knowledge of data query, data manipulation, and reporting concepts.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Advanced Excel and reporting analysis capabilities.
• Strong understanding of data integrity, reconciliation, and audit controls.
• Ability to analyze complex datasets and communicate findings effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, administration, governance and continuous improvement of Workday reporting environment.
• Serve as technology owner of Workday reporting functionality and maintain portfolio of reports, dashboards, and calculated fields.
• Ensure reports execute accurately, within SLAs, and monitor performance for optimization.
• Manage report lifecycle: creation, modification, testing, promotion, retirement and documentation.
• Support executive, operational, payroll, workforce, compliance, and ad hoc reporting needs.
• Collaborate with HRIS and business leaders to establish reporting standards and governance.
• Develop business requirements documents, functional specs, report inventories, and process maps.
• Translate business questions into reporting and analytics solutions.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions and discuss data definitions and metrics.
• Collaborate with HRIS and technical teams to maintain Workday reporting architecture standards.
• Ensure data definitions and reporting structures are consistent across the organization.
• Support report security configuration and access controls.
• Lead testing and validation for new reports and Workday releases; coordinate UAT.
• Create test plans and validation scripts; reconcile procedures.
• Participate in Workday implementation, enhancements and optimization.
• Create value stream maps and GAP analyses to support reporting improvements.
• Recommend and implement process improvements to enhance reporting efficiency and user experience.

Skills

Workday reporting

Business analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Data governance

Excel proficiency

UAT testing

Report security

Process improvement

Communications

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Workday reporting tools

Job description

Southland Industries is seeking a Senior Business Analyst focusing on Workday Reporting to lead design, governance and continuous improvement of the Workday reporting environment. You will liaise with HRIS, Payroll, Finance and IT to ensure timely, accurate reporting and support executive and ad hoc reporting needs.

The ideal candidate brings deep Workday reporting knowledge, strong business analysis skills and data governance expertise, enabling data-driven decision making across the