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

Cabot Corporation•Billerica, MA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cabot Corporation is seeking a Senior Workday Reporting Analyst to design, build, maintain, and optimize Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics. This role will support data-driven decision-making across HR and the wider business by partnering with senior stakeholders in HR, Finance, and Digital to translate reporting needs into scalable, accurate, and user-friendly solutions. The position reports to the Head of HRIS.

Requirements

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.

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 PowerBI
Prior experience in at least one of the following Workday functional areas, or demonstrate a strong willingness and aptitude to learn: Learning, Recruiting, or HCM.
Experience in a multi-national organization, including across languages, ideally within the manufacturing industry or FMCG.

Responsibilities

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.