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

Cabot Corporation•Alpharetta, GA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cabot Corporation is seeking a Senior Workday Reporting Analyst to design, build, maintain, and optimize Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics that support data-driven decisions across HR and the wider business. The role partners with senior stakeholders in HR, Finance, Digital, and other business areas to turn reporting needs into scalable, accurate, and user-friendly solutions. It reports to the Head of HRIS. The successful candidate will work across Workday reporting and functional areas, including HCM, Learning, Recruiting, or Compensation, and will support reporting strategy, data lake integration, governance, security, and data quality. The position is based at either Cabot’s Billerica, Massachusetts or Alpharetta, Georgia location under a hybrid arrangement: remote on Mondays and Fridays and in the office Tuesday through Thursday.

Requirements

At least 2 years of hands-on experience creating and maintaining Workday reports and dashboards, either at a partner or on an end-user HRIS team.
Strong experience with Workday report types, calculated fields, prompts, filters, business objects, data sources, and custom dashboards.
Understanding of Workday security as it relates to data sources, business objects, calculated fields, and related reporting components.
Ability to translate business requirements into clear, accurate, maintainable reporting solutions and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-validation skills, 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 or 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.
The ability to work in a hybrid arrangement at either the Billerica, MA or Alpharetta, GA location.

Nice To Haves

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 Power BI.
Experience in Workday Learning, including assignments, audiences, campaigns, course and program reporting, completion tracking, or learner analytics.
Experience in Workday Recruiting, including candidate pipelines, job applications, offers, hiring, or requisitions.
Experience in Workday HCM, including worker data, organizations, staffing events, jobs, positions, or core compensation elements.
Experience in a multinational organization, including across languages, ideally in manufacturing or FMCG.
Willingness and aptitude to develop expertise in one or more Workday functional areas, including Learning, Recruiting, or HCM.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize custom, advanced, matrix, composite, dashboard, and self-service Workday reports.
Create and maintain calculated fields, prompts, filters, business objects, report definitions, custom dashboards, and hubs.
Gather requirements from HR, Digital, Finance, functional process owners, and other stakeholders, and translate business questions into accurate reporting solutions.
Advise across Workday functional areas on 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, support UAT, and recommend improvements to reporting logic, usability, and performance.
Assess report impacts from Workday releases, test enhancements, and update reports, documentation, job aids, and reporting standards as needed.
Maintain reporting governance through inventories, tags, documentation, and standards.
Provide 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.