Senior Workday Report Developer & Business Analyst

Company Description

Arηs Group, Part of Accenture, specializes in the management of complex public sector IT projects, including systems integration, informatics and analytics, solution implementation and program management. Our team helps lead clients through digital and information systems design, bringing expertise in a variety of areas ranging from software development, data science and security management to machine learning, cloud, and mobile development. Arηs Group was acquired by Accenture in July 2024. 

Job Description

Business analysis and requirements management

• Plan and facilitate requirements workshops, interviews and walkthroughs with business owners and subject-matter experts.
• Translate business questions into structured reporting requirements: purpose, audience, data elements, filters, prompts, frequency, security and distribution.
• Analyse current-state reports from legacy systems and determine whether to retire, replace, consolidate or rebuild them in Workday.
• Challenge and prioritise requests against business value, data availability and delivered Workday functionality.
• Maintain a reporting requirements inventory and traceability matrix linking each requirement to its design, build and test evidence.
• Obtain formal business sign-off on requirements and on delivered reports.
• Identify data quality gaps and process issues surfaced through requirements analysis and escalate them to the relevant workstream.

Testing, deployment and governance​​​​

• Prepare unit test evidence and support SIT and BAT test execution and defect resolution.
• Manage report migration across tenants in line with the BMS release management process.
• Apply and help refine the Workday Reporting Governance Framework: standards, request intake, ownership and lifecycle management.
• Produce functional and technical design documentation for each report.

Knowledge transfer and support

• Knowledge transfer client's report writers and key users on report usage and on building simple reports.
• Produce user guides and a report catalogue.
• Provide hypercare support after Go-Live and hand over to the support organization.

Qualifications

Workday report design and development

• Design and build Workday reports of all types: Simple, Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Trending and Transposed.
• Develop dashboards, Discovery Boards and worklet-based analytics for managers and executives.
• Create and maintain calculated fields, custom report data sources and report prompts, following naming and reuse standards.
• Build reports used as data sources for integrations (e.g. RaaS / Workday web services) in coordination with the integration team.
• Configure report sharing, scheduling, bursting and output formats.
• Apply Workday domain and business process security correctly, ensuring users see only the data they are authorised to see.
• Optimise report performance and resolve defects.