Senior People Systems Specialist

Overview

In this Senior role, you own end-to-end Workday reporting and analytics to empower HR, Finance, and leadership with fast, self-service insights. You’ll shape the reporting strategy, design dashboards and Discovery Boards, and ensure data flows between Workday and other sources like Power BI. You’ll build a scalable data foundation that supports AI-driven analysis while maintaining governance and security. You drive adoption and delivery, balancing strategic direction with urgent requests.

Pay / Benefits

• collaborative, global team
• autonomy in workload management
• flexible working hours
• vibrant, inclusive community with ERG groups
• Global Employee Assistance Programme
• well-being app access (Calm and Reulay)

Responsibilities

• Define and own the reporting strategy, retire obsolete metrics and propose what leadership should monitor
• Design, build, and maintain custom Workday reports and dashboards (advanced, matrix, composite, calc fields)
• Develop and optimize Discovery Boards, People Analytics content, and Worksheets; drive user adoption
• Enable self-service by designing self-serve reporting and training stakeholders
• Create and maintain cross-system data flows between Workday and other systems; build Power BI models combining Workday with other sources
• Lay the data foundation for AI readiness with clean, governed data
• Ensure data quality and security with validations and appropriate report security
• Automate recurring reporting (RaaS, scheduled deliveries) to free time for improvement
• Handle BAU reporting requests to a high standard while identifying opportunities for improvement

Key requirements

• Expertise in Workday reporting (Advanced, Matrix, Composite), Calc Fields, Worksheets, Discovery Boards
• Workday Security experience (domain, business process, report-level) for sensitive data
• Experience building and maintaining Power BI reports and data models
• Strong understanding of Workday data structures and organizational design
• Collaborative mindset with HR, Finance, and stakeholders; focus on usability and data quality
• Judgment to push back on requests and propose better solutions; able to turn around urgent requests

• collaboration across HR, Finance, and business stakeholders
• usability and data quality mindset
• pragmatism and strong decision-making
• Workday reporting (Advanced, Matrix, Composite), Calc Fields, Worksheets, Discovery Boards
• Power BI reporting and data modeling
• Workday security configuration (domain, BPs, report security)

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