Senior Workday Report Developer & Business Analyst

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.