Senior Workday Reporting Consultant

**About the position**

Job Title: Senior Workday Reporting & Business Analyst Specialist

Contract Duration: 6 Months Minimum (Potential for Extension)

Location: Fully Offshore / Remote (Requires alignment with Central European Time - CET)

Work experience: at least 10 yrs total work experience, *minimum* 6 years of professional experience in Reporting/BI, with *at least* 4 to 5 years of dedicated, hands-on experience in Workday Reporting

**About the Role**

The organization is currently executing its Business Management System (BMS) programme, a large-scale enterprise transformation featuring a comprehensive global rollout of Workday HCM.

We are seeking a Senior Workday Reporting & Business Analyst Specialist to take end-to-end ownership of building our Workday reporting portfolio. This is a techno-functional role split into 80% hands-on Workday report development and 20% business analysis. This position sits entirely within the Workday reporting and analytical framework; classic Big Data engineering experience (e.g., Spark, Databricks, Airflow) is not required. The successful consultant will bridge the gap between high-level business requirements and technical execution, designing, testing, and deploying critical intelligence frameworks for leadership and global HR teams.

**Key Responsibilities**

Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering (~20%)

• Lead Workshops: Facilitate structured requirements gatherings, interviews, and design walkthroughs with global HR leads and management stakeholders.
• Translate Requirements: Convert complex business questions into airtight technical reporting specifications outlining purpose, data fields, prompts, security configurations, and distribution schedules.
• Legacy Assessment: Review existing legacy reports to systematically decide whether to retire, consolidate, or rebuild them within Workday.
• Demand Management: Challenge and prioritize incoming requests against actual business value, data availability, and standard Workday features.
• Traceability & Sign-Off: Maintain a rigorous requirements inventory and traceability matrix across the development lifecycle, securing formal business sign-off at delivery milestones.
• Data Integrity: Proactively flag data quality anomalies and process gaps to relevant technical and functional workstreams.

Workday Report Design & Configuration (~80%)

• Advanced Report Writing: Build, configure, and maintain all Workday report types including Simple, Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Trending, and Transposed reports.
• Analytics Delivery: Design and build executive-ready dashboards, Discovery Boards, and operational worklets tailored for managers and leadership.
• Calculated Fields: Create sophisticated calculated fields, custom report data sources, and complex report prompts adhering to strict system naming conventions.
• Integration Support: Build robust Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST) to serve as stable data sources for downstream integration layers.
• Security & Output: Correctly configure report sharing, scheduling, bursting, and automated delivery formats while ensuring absolute adherence to Workday domain and business process security boundaries.
• Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot reporting defects and optimize execution times for high-volume data pulls.

Testing, Deployment & Governance

• End-to-End Testing: Generate unit test evidence, lead System Integration Testing (SIT), and orchestrate Business Acceptance Testing (BAT/UAT) while managing defect remediation.
• Release Management: Migrate developed reports seamlessly across Workday tenants utilizing Object Transporter, Solution Migration, or equivalent tools.
• Governance Framework: Help refine and enforce the Workday Reporting Governance Framework regarding systemic intake, lifecycle management, and asset ownership.
• Documentation: Author functional and technical design documents alongside an enterprise-level report catalog.

Knowledge Transfer & Post-Launch Support

• Capacity Building: Upskill and train designated internal report writers and power users on standard practices and ad-hoc report writing.
• Hypercare: Provide dedicated post-go-live hypercare support, facilitating a clean handover to the long-term application support team.

**Candidate Profile & Qualifications**

Minimum Experience & Target Background

• Seniority: Minimum 6+ years of professional experience in Reporting/BI, with at least 4 to 5 years of dedicated, hands-on experience in Workday Reporting.
• Project Footprint: Must have successfully built and delivered a full reporting portfolio through at least one end-to-end Workday HCM implementation lifecycle (pre-go-live through launch).
• Consultative Mindset: Prior background as a Workday Reporting Consultant, Techno-Functional Analyst, or Workday Report Writer. Must be completely comfortable leading client-facing interactions rather than just executing tickets.
• Operational Overlap: Available to work remotely with a high degree of core-hour availability overlapping with European (CET) timezones.

Technical Skills (Must-Haves)

• Workday HCM Core: Deep structural understanding of the Workday HCM data model (workers, organizations, positions, compensation structure, business processes).
• Workday Report Writer Expert: Mastery of Advanced, Matrix, and Composite report building.
• Advanced Calculated Fields: Expert-level mastery of Workday calculated fields (the primary technical evaluation metric).
• Data Ingestion/Egress: Proven execution of RaaS, custom data sources, prompts, and Web Services (REST/SOAP).
• Tenant Tooling: Competency moving configurations using Object Transporter or Solutions.
• Communication: Exceptional, business-fluent verbal and written English communication skills.

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Haves)

• Advanced Analytics: Experience with Workday Prism Analytics or People Analytics.
• Integration Fluency: Baseline exposure to EIBs and Workday Studio to coordinate cleanly w