About the role
Job Description
Business analysis and requirements management
* Plan and facilitate requirements workshops, interviews and walkthroughs with business owners and subject-matter experts. * Translate business questions into structured reporting requirements: purpose, audience, data elements, filters, prompts, frequency, security and distribution. * Analyse current-state reports from legacy systems and determine whether to retire, replace, consolidate or rebuild them in Workday. * Challenge and prioritise requests against business value, data availability and delivered Workday functionality. * Maintain a reporting requirements inventory and traceability matrix linking each requirement to its design, build and test evidence. * Obtain formal business sign-off on requirements and on delivered reports. * Identify data quality gaps and process issues surfaced through requirements analysis and escalate them to the relevant workstream.
Testing, deployment and governance
* Prepare unit test evidence and support SIT and BAT test execution and defect resolution. * Manage report migration across tenants in line with the BMS release management process. * Apply and help refine the Workday Reporting Governance Framework: standards, request intake, ownership and lifecycle management. * Produce functional and technical design documentation for each report.
Knowledge transfer and support
* Knowledge transfer client's report writers and key users on report usage and on building simple reports. * Produce user guides and a report catalogue. * Provide hypercare support after Go-Live and hand over to the support organization.
Qualifications
Workday report design and development
* Design and build Workday reports of all types: Simple, Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Trending and Transposed. * Develop dashboards, Discovery Boards and worklet-based analytics for managers and executives. * Create and maintain calculated fields, custom report data sources and report prompts, following naming and reuse standards. * Build reports used as data sources for integrations (e.g. RaaS / Workday web services) in coordination with the integration team. * Configure report sharing, scheduling, bursting and output formats. * Apply Workday domain and business process security correctly, ensuring users see only the data they are authorised to see. * Optimise report performance and resolve defects.