Workday Analyst, Audit and Reporting
Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)
Tableau
Workday Analyst, Audit and Reporting
Lightspeed (Formerly SEOshop)
contract
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ottawa • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Tableau
About the role
- Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that effectively communicate people data insights to stakeholders.
- Extract data from Workday and other HR systems using various reporting tools and techniques.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Develop end-to-end solutions to reporting requirements and change requests (design, build and test reports).
- Analyze data to identify trends, patterns, and insights related to workforce demographics, performance, compensation, turnover, and other HR metrics.
- Interpret data and use it to determine HR program effectiveness and contribute to establishing KPIs.
- Ensure data integrity and accuracy by implementing data quality checks and validation procedures.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of data governance policies and procedures.
- Perform audit procedures and analyze findings to identify and assess control deficiencies.
- Work with management to develop and implement remediation plans to address control deficiencies.
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors as needed to ensure scalable and consistent audit processes.
- Partner with People Business Partners and other stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide relevant insights.
- Support HR initiatives by providing data-driven recommendations and analysis.
- Stay up-to-date on Workday reporting and analytics capabilities and best practices.
- Conduct knowledge transfer sessions to promote data literacy and support development of best reporting practices
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience working with HR data and analytics (1-2 years of Workday reporting experience)
- Workday experience & knowledge of calculated fields, creating advanced and matrix reports, dashboards
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Statistics, Data Science, or any combination of training and experience relevant for the role
- Strong understanding of people data metrics and reporting best practices
- Advanced proficiency in HR reporting tools
- Advanced knowledge of Excel
- Deep knowledge of configuring custom reports and handling large data sets
- Experience maintaining data integrity across enterprise HR systems and conducting audits
- Strong understanding of HR programs and cyclical activities in the employee lifecycle
- Strong communication skills in English
- Background working as an HR Business Analyst or Data Analyst (nice to have)
- Knowledge of a data visualization tool (e.g., Tableau, Looker, etc.) (nice to have)
Benefits
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible hybrid environment;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday;
- Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Flexible working policy
- Health insurance
- Health and wellness benefits
- Possibility for transit fees to be covered
- Linkedin learning
- Volunteer day
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
HR data analyticsWorkday reportingdata visualizationExceldata integrityauditingreporting best practicesdata governanceKPI establishmentdata quality checks
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationdata literacyproblem-solvingstakeholder engagement
