The Workday Payroll Reporting, Integrations and Technical Lead is responsible for collaborating with and providing consultation to the team implementing Workday HCM, Payroll and Finance for the State of Rhode Island. As a subject matter expert for Payroll and Finance, you will foster an overall data culture focusing on the right metric, in the right format, to the right person. Build and maintain a governance structure around our data and reporting; lead the strategy behind the delivery of our data, how, what, when, and who will receive the data to ensure we are delivering actionable insights to drive people and company performance.
Reporting ResponsibilitiesServe as the Workday Payroll and Finance reporting domain authority providing best practices and standards.
Analytics Development: develop, design, deliver, and maintain simple to complex Workday reports and dashboards, including calculated fields, Workday slides, worksheets, report groups, discovery boards, matrix and composite reports, custom objects, and report drilling.
Utilizes Workday report writer, report designer and Prism, as well as other organizational tools and available technologies with a focus on design and performance.
Develop complex calculated fields, maintaining the standards and integrity of the data.
Create and maintain standardized real-time dashboards displaying key metrics and insights for business leaders in a visually appealing manner, utilizing the full analytics suite.
Work with business partners and COE's to document report requirements, design, develop and deliver reports.
Develops and delivers training to support self-service reporting, data literacy, scheduling, and best practices.
Organizes and monitors persona-based report packages and inventory to maximize self-service reporting functionality and minimize ad-hoc report requests.
Communicate complex information so that it is easy to understand and influences business owners to take action based on the useful information provided to enable data-driven decision-making.
Lead the preparation and delivery of complex Finance reports; manage project deliverables, milestones, and specified project tasks.
Review the effectiveness of reporting solutions, improve current reports, or operationalize new reports/methods as needed.
Partner with the Finance Systems team on leveraging Workday and executing implementation plan for bi-annual upgrades to the reporting, analytics, and planning areas.
Perform UAT and obtain sign-off for production deployments.
Lead Prism strategy and development of metrics, reporting and dashboards based on business strategy and insights; establish checkpoints on results and impacts.
Develop a deep understanding of data structures and data sources within Workday and Prism to extract relevant information for reporting purposes.
Data Governance: Establish and maintain data governance processes and standards to ensure data accuracy, consistency, quality, and security within the Workday Finance platform. Understand and ensure security and data privacy standards are followed.
Maintains all people resources reporting inventory to ensure consistent naming, descriptions, tagging, formatting, filters, and share permissions.
Facilitate the capture, development, and analysis of organizational and talent data for strategic insights from external sources into Workday.
Partner with business owners to examine internal and external employee data trends and provide recommendations.
Strong knowledge of Finance process, policies, and data structures, with an ability to translate business requirements into effective reporting solutions.
Ability to collect, coordinate, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy and with highly confidential data.
Understand complexities and nuances with reporting on different organization hierarchies.
Prior experience with data governance, auditing, developing standards, and documentation.
Demonstratable experience creating and maintaining Workday reports.