Sr Workday Reporting Analyst – Billerica, MA or Alpharetta, GA Hybrid

We are seeking a Senior Workday Reporting Analyst to design, build, maintain, and optimize Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics that support data-driven decision-making across HR and the wider business. This role will partner closely with senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, Digital, and other areas of the business to translate reporting needs into scalable, accurate, and user-friendly solutions and will report to the Head of HRIS.

The ideal candidate will bring:

• 2-5 years of hands-on Workday reporting experience

• Strong analytical capability, and a solid understanding of Workday data structures, calculated fields, security, and business processes.

• Workday Reporting (Pro or Partner Certified) is preferred

• Experience in HCM, Learning, Recruiting, or Compensation is highly desirable; candidates with a willingness to build expertise in one or more of these functional areas will also be considered.

Candidate will be located at either Cabot location of Billerica, MA or Alpharetta, GA. The individual will participate in the current Hybrid Working Arrangement program (Monday/Friday remote and Tuesday-Thursday in office).

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Design, build, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize Workday reports, including custom, advanced, matrix, composite, dashboard, and self-service reporting solutions.

• Create and maintain calculated fields, prompts, filters, business objects, report definitions, custom dashboards, and hubs to meet business requirements.

• Partner with HR, Digital, Finance, functional process owners, and other stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify reporting objectives, and translate business questions into accurate, actionable reporting solutions.

• Serve in an advisory role across Workday functional areas for reporting strategy and data lake integration.

• Ensure reports are accurate, secure, scalable, and aligned with Workday security, data governance, privacy, and audit requirements.

• Troubleshoot report issues, perform root-cause analysis, conduct unit testing and support UAT, and recommend improvements to reporting logic, usability, and performance.

• Support Workday releases by assessing report impacts, testing enhancements, and updating reports, documentation, job aids, and reporting standards as needed.

• Maintain reporting governance through inventories, tags, documentation, and standards that support consistency and knowledge sharing.

• Offer training and end-user support, including documentation, user guides, and videos.

• Handle confidential HR data with discretion and in accordance with applicable policies and controls.

What You’ll Bring to Cabot

• 2+ years of hands-on experience creating and maintaining reports and dashboards in Workday, either from a partner or end-user HRIS team.

• Strong experience across Workday report types, calculated fields, prompts, filters, business objects, data sources, and custom dashboards.

• An understanding of Workday security as relates to data sources, business objects, calc fields, etc.

• Experience translating business requirements into clear, accurate, maintainable reporting solutions and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data validation skills, with high attention to detail and comfort working with large datasets in Microsoft Excel.

• Experience working with confidential HR or employee data and understanding of HR data governance, Workday security roles, compliance reporting, and SOX/audit controls.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Experience creating training materials, reporting guides, or stakeholder enablement resources.

• Continuous improvement mindset and willingness to learn new Workday functionality.

• Experience in a multi-national organization, including across languages, ideally within the manufacturing industry or FMCG.

Preferred:

• Workday Reporting certification (Pro or Partner Certified)

• Hands-on experience with discovery boards, worksheets, and/or BIRT reporting.

• Demonstrable use of AI in Workday

• Hands-on experience with PowerBI

• Prior experience in at least one of the following Workday functional areas, or demonstrate a strong willingness and aptitude to learn:

  • Learning: Learning assignments, audiences and learning campaigns, course and program reporting, completion tracking, and learner analytics.

  • Recruiting: Candidate pipelines and job applications, offer/hiring, requisitions

  • HCM: Worker data, organizations, staffing events, jobs, positions, and core compensation elements

How We’ll Support Your Success

The pay range for this role is from $91,750 to $129,600. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skill, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, all positions are eligible for health benefits on the first day of employment, 401K savings plans, vision, dental and annual bonus based on company performance.

• Hybrid Work Environment – The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week.

• Growth – Training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.

• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer a competitive package of benefits. Benefits begin on first day of employment.