HRIS Analyst – Reporting

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Your Opportunity: 

The HRIS Reporting Analyst is responsible for maintaining, improving, and building new reporting capabilities for cross-functional areas of the business by generating data visualizations and insights that result in actionable business recommendations. The HRIS Reporting Analyst will develop a deep understanding of operational processes and needs, in order to assess business requirements and Workday’s capabilities to create reports and dashboards across the Workday ecosystem. The HRIS Reporting Analyst will play a key role in the development, administration and improvement of HR reporting processes, data governance and data quality initiatives. They are responsible for delivering daily, weekly, and monthly reports accurately and on time. They will also be involved in ad hoc analysis of large datasets to quickly provide insight into the business. The HRIS Reporting Analyst will be responsible for liaising between other analysts in managing the reporting catalog and managing ad hoc requests for clients. 

  

Responsibilities: 

• Manage the maintenance, design, development, testing, and deployment of standard and custom Workday reports and dashboards in alignment with program objectives and data security framework using calculated fields, and other analytics capabilities. 
• Publish daily, weekly, and monthly reports accurately and on time. 
• Perform reporting audits to ensure accuracy and compliance. 
• Uses Workday reporting to troubleshoot, create scalable workarounds, and anticipate reports needed but not yet requested. 
• Escalate complex configuration, issues, or bugs to Sr. Reporting Analysts or the HRIS Technical Team. 
• Triage and resolve tickets via Smithfield’s case management tools. 
• Perform ad hoc analysis using data from various systems and explain results of analysis to stakeholders. 
• Participate in testing process for all Workday changes including upgrades, implementations, etc. 
• Assist with special projects and other duties as assigned. 
• Partner with other members of the HRIS Team to develop creative solutions for delivering data and insights to stakeholders. 
• Creates and maintains Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) process documentation. 
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand and communicate the meaning of measures, calculations, and metrics. 
• Ability to collect, cleanse, manipulate, analyze, and present data insights to technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment. 
• Good communication and presentation skills, along with the ability to leverage data and analytics to influence decisions. 
• Demonstrate continuous efforts to improve processes, increase data integrity, and provide quality customer service to our business partners.  
• Maintains confidentiality; appropriately protects employee personal data. 
• Effectively prioritizes workload comprised of both transactional and project-based tasks. 
• Build reports and dashboards in Microsoft Power BI, Analysis for Office, Bex, and other reporting tools 
• Generate load files for various systems, maintaining system accuracy 

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned. 

  

Qualifications: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions. 

• Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally accredited four-year college or university in Accounting/Finance, Computer Science/Data Analytics or related field and 2+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent combination of education and/or experience, required. 
• Workday experience, required. Workday Reporting experience,  preferred. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, and multi-tasking skills. 
• Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment. 
• Moderate to advanced MS Excel skill set with the ability to identify, combine, and analyze multiple data sets and data points using filters, sorts, and conditional formatting. Familiarity with basic formulas such as VLOOKUP, SUMIF and nesting statements as well as being competent in generating and modifying pivot tables and charts. 
• Ability to quickly learn new technology and business logic. 
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with superb attention to detail. 
• Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, growing environment with minimal supervision. 
• Ability to work well with others in fast paced, dynamic environment. 
• Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment with coworkers and cross functional teams.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality. 
• Excellent multitasking and time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.  
• Ability to travel if necessary 
• If remote, ability to work between 8am ET and 5pm ET 
• Experience with Power BI / Tableau, Power Pivot, SAP, SAP Analysis for Office, BPC, Bex Query Designer. 
• Experience in analyzing data within relational database systems such as MS Access, MS SQL Server, and MySQL. 
• Experience with ETL Tools such as Alteryx, Paxata, DataGuru or equivalent technologies, preferred. 
• Understanding of Windows environment command line tools, .BAT files, and Task Scheduler, preferred. 
• Experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript and a backend technology like python-flask, preferred. 
• Experience with Data analysis in Python using Pandas/Numpy/Jupyter Notebooks, preferred. 

EEO/AA Information

Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.

Salary Range$73,500.00 – $110,625.00