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What's The Role?
Our Sr. Workday Analytics Analyst will provide quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers in order to drive business decisions and address business questions.
How You'll Do It:

• Access, capture, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into business problems, decisions, and performance.
• Create and produces forecasts, reports, dashboards, etc. to tell a story through data.
• Produce useful reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems.
• Create forecasts, recommendations and strategic/tactical plans based on business data and market knowledge.
• Apply analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts that impact the business (costs, risks, etc).
• Summarize analysis into user-friendly deliverables by translating detailed data into business-appropriate communication and recommendations.
• Deliver results, insights and recommendations (written, verbal, presentations, etc) to business audience to implement business decisions.
• Provide consultation to business clients and may participate in cross-functional teams to address business issues.
• Apply fresh opinions, creative problem solving, and inter-departmental connections to improve analytical capabilities.
• Take initiative to design and develop deliverables based on interpretation of findings and business client needs on a wide range of analytical topics.
• Create and be accountable for high quality, value driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making; and collaborates with team for speed, agility and innovation in work.
• Embrace continuous learning, curiosity, and ambiguity.
• Shares standard processes with peers through coaching and mentoring around core methodologies, standards and processes.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Statistics, Business or related field.5+ years of progressively responsible experience in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques, or application development that support business decisions/outcomes.
• Expertise in Workday Reporting
• Expertise in development and analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS, R or other tool. Visualization tooling like PowerBI or Tableau.
• Proven ability to deliver results and recommendations in written, verbal and presentation form at an appropriate level for a variety of business audiences.
• Proven excellence in problem solving, research, quantitative analysis and analytical working techniques.
• Strong proficiency and desire for learning new platforms, development, analytic and presentation tools; modeling, analytic and quantitative techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to gather information systematically; consider a broad range of issues or factors; grasp complexities and perceive relationships among problems or issues; use accurate logic in analysis.
• Initiative to independently design and develop own deliverables while still being a team player.
• Ability and desire to mentor other team members through projects independently, from start to finish.
• Ability to be responsive to changing business needs, manage and prioritize concurrent assignments, and handle ambiguity.
• Significant ability to use data mining tools and analytics in order to support the initiatives of assigned business areas.
• Ability to generate new insights and go beyond the status quo; recognize the need for new or modified approaches.
• Strong customer / client orientation.
• Strong analytical capability with ability to meet deadlines.

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