[Remote] Manager, Workday Reporting & Analytics

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. The Manager, Workday Reporting & Analytics will serve as a key technical resource for Workday report development and analytics delivery, supporting the full lifecycle of reporting initiatives and partnering with HR and Finance Centers of Excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain advanced Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Composite) and complex calculated fields across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Talent, and Payroll
• Build reporting solutions that account for Workday security model impacts (domain, role-based, and user-based security), ensuring accurate, appropriately scoped data for each audience
• Build and manage dashboards and discovery boards to deliver self-service analytics to HR leadership and COE partners
• Serve as an escalation point for report defects, performance issues, and complex data interpretation questions, and evaluate new reporting features with each biannual Workday release
• Design and maintain custom reports that serve as data sources for outbound integrations, including web service-enabled reports (RaaS) consumed by downstream systems and vendors
• Develop integration audit, reconciliation, and error reporting to monitor data flows between Workday and connected systems
• Partner with the HR Technology team on reporting requirements for integrations built on EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and Orchestrate, and validate report-based integration outputs during testing cycles and biannual releases
• Own the project lifecycle for assigned reporting initiatives: intake, requirements, scoping, build, UAT, deployment, and documentation
• Serve as a liaison between HR COEs (Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, HR Business Partners, People Analytics) and the reporting function, translating ambiguous requests into clearly defined technical requirements
• Manage competing priorities across concurrent workstreams, proactively communicating status, risks, and trade-offs
• Prepare clear documentation including report specifications, data dictionaries, test plans, and end-user guides
• Work closely with the wider HR Data & Analytics team, partnering with colleagues focused on Power BI-based analytics and data infrastructure to ensure Workday reporting complements and feeds the broader analytics ecosystem
• Collaborate closely with the HR Technology team on configuration changes, integrations, and platform enhancements that affect reporting
• Mentor report writers and analysts, and contribute to reporting standards, naming conventions, and best practices
• Maintain deep working knowledge of Workday business processes and the underlying data model
• Advise on data quality, governance, and audit readiness, and identify opportunities to extend analytics beyond native Workday via Prism Analytics or Power BI
• Help shape the team's adoption of AI capabilities, including Workday's evolving AI and machine learning features (e.g., Workday Illuminate) and AI-assisted approaches to report development, data analysis, and insight generation, with attention to responsible use and emerging AI governance standards

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field
• 7+ years of progressive experience in HRIS, HR reporting, or HR data analytics, with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on Workday report development
• Strong proficiency in Workday reporting tools: Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, Calculated Fields, and Custom Report Data Sources
• Workday Pro certification in Reporting
• Experience developing report-based integration outputs (e.g., RaaS) and supporting integration reporting requirements
• Solid understanding of the Workday HCM data model, business processes, and security architecture and their impact on reporting outputs
• Demonstrated experience managing reporting projects end-to-end
• Ability to travel to clients and FTI office(s) as needed
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; this position does not provide visa sponsorship
• Additional Workday Pro certifications in HCM or related functional areas
• Experience with BIRT, Workday Prism Analytics, Adaptive Planning, or Workday Extend
• Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI (report creation, DAX, Power Query, data modeling)
• Familiarity with Workday integration frameworks (EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, Orchestrate) as they relate to reporting data flows
• Experience supporting Workday implementations or post-go-live optimization efforts
• Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for applying AI to HR reporting and analytics, whether through Workday's native AI capabilities, AI-assisted development tools, or emerging analytics technologies
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical audiences and build trusted relationships with HR stakeholders

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