Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. The Manager, Workday Reporting & Analytics will serve as a key technical resource for Workday report development and analytics delivery, supporting the full lifecycle of reporting initiatives and partnering with HR and Finance Centers of Excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain advanced Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Composite) and complex calculated fields across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Talent, and Payroll
- Build reporting solutions that account for Workday security model impacts (domain, role-based, and user-based security), ensuring accurate, appropriately scoped data for each audience
- Build and manage dashboards and discovery boards to deliver self-service analytics to HR leadership and COE partners
- Serve as an escalation point for report defects, performance issues, and complex data interpretation questions, and evaluate new reporting features with each biannual Workday release
- Design and maintain custom reports that serve as data sources for outbound integrations, including web service-enabled reports (RaaS) consumed by downstream systems and vendors
- Develop integration audit, reconciliation, and error reporting to monitor data flows between Workday and connected systems
- Partner with the HR Technology team on reporting requirements for integrations built on EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and Orchestrate, and validate report-based integration outputs during testing cycles and biannual releases
- Own the project lifecycle for assigned reporting initiatives: intake, requirements, scoping, build, UAT, deployment, and documentation
- Serve as a liaison between HR COEs (Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, HR Business Partners, People Analytics) and the reporting function, translating ambiguous requests into clearly defined technical requirements
- Manage competing priorities across concurrent workstreams, proactively communicating status, risks, and trade-offs
- Prepare clear documentation including report specifications, data dictionaries, test plans, and end-user guides
- Work closely with the wider HR Data & Analytics team, partnering with colleagues focused on Power BI-based analytics and data infrastructure to ensure Workday reporting complements and feeds the broader analytics ecosystem
- Collaborate closely with the HR Technology team on configuration changes, integrations, and platform enhancements that affect reporting
- Mentor report writers and analysts, and contribute to reporting standards, naming conventions, and best practices
- Maintain deep working knowledge of Workday business processes and the underlying data model
- Advise on data quality, governance, and audit readiness, and identify opportunities to extend analytics beyond native Workday via Prism Analytics or Power BI
- Help shape the team's adoption of AI capabilities, including Workday's evolving AI and machine learning features (e.g., Workday Illuminate) and AI-assisted approaches to report development, data analysis, and insight generation, with attention to responsible use and emerging AI governance standards
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field
- 7+ years of progressive experience in HRIS, HR reporting, or HR data analytics, with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on Workday report development
- Strong proficiency in Workday reporting tools: Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, Calculated Fields, and Custom Report Data Sources
- Workday Pro certification in Reporting
- Experience developing report-based integration outputs (e.g., RaaS) and supporting integration reporting requirements
- Solid understanding of the Workday HCM data model, business processes, and security architecture and their impact on reporting outputs
- Demonstrated experience managing reporting projects end-to-end
- Ability to travel to clients and FTI office(s) as needed
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; this position does not provide visa sponsorship
- Additional Workday Pro certifications in HCM or related functional areas
- Experience with BIRT, Workday Prism Analytics, Adaptive Planning, or Workday Extend
- Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI (report creation, DAX, Power Query, data modeling)
- Familiarity with Workday integration frameworks (EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, Orchestrate) as they relate to reporting data flows
- Experience supporting Workday implementations or post-go-live optimization efforts
- Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for applying AI to HR reporting and analytics, whether through Workday's native AI capabilities, AI-assisted development tools, or emerging analytics technologies
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical audiences and build trusted relationships with HR stakeholders
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