Workday Report Developer

The Administrative Transformation Program is transforming the Finance, Human Resources, and Research Administration support environment across the university system, while focusing on people, processes, and technology.  This role is imperative to the success of the transformational project with the mission to rebuild finance, human resources, and research administration systems across multiple institutions. The Workday Report Developer will assist in the review and redesign of business processes implementing a new Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP), Workday. The successful candidate should have excellent communication, critical thinking, facilitation, and collaboration skills in addition to functional area expertise in finance, HR, or research administration and Workday. The activities will include the review and redesign of business processes (including use of ancillary and bolt-on IT systems), redesign of the chart of accounts, and integration of efforts with several ongoing university projects.

• Designs, develops, and troubleshoots complex core Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence build, test, and deployment activities.  
• May oversee and evaluate the work of lower-level data warehouse developers. 

• Conducts assessments and/or provides recommendations of source connections options for access and optimal data pipelines for development. Develops and unit tests high-complexity load and/or mappings across a suite of tools and deploys to production.  
• Conducts complex data exploration steps, such as profiling, understanding data quality, binning, pivoting, summarizing, and finding correlations on multiple data types and sources. 
• Designs, and/or builds, tests, and deploys the data cleansing, integration, and transformation of more complex data in accordance with the defined target data model, based on enterprise data definitions and quality measures provided by data stewards. 
• Develops and documents the inventory of complex data warehouse assets including adding descriptions and making them discoverable for business use. 
• Presents the results of highly complex recommendations to address data quality issues, and coaches lower-level staff in performing data quality clean-up initiatives with metrics and reports - 
• May provide code review, coaching, and oversight of the activities of lower-level data modelers and data curation developers. 
• May consult with data subject matter experts to document and address data quality issues and ensure data is assured. May support data quality clean-up initiatives with metrics and reports. 

• Bachelor's degree 
• A minimum of 1-year Workday report developer experience. 
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with cross functional partners in report specification and requirement gathering. Additional preference given for those with experience collaborating in the functional area of Finance and Grants reporting. 

• Knowledge and/or experience building Workday simple, advanced, matrix, composite, trending, scorecard, dashboard, and BIRT reports. 
• Knowledge and/or experience of Prism Analytics. 
• Ability to train/knowledge transfer with developers not experienced in Workday reporting solutions. 
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and decision-making skills. 
• Ability to diagnose and solve complex reporting issues. 
• Experience developing reports in the areas of accounting, finance, or budgets. 
• Experience with higher education, government, or nonprofit organizations. 

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