Sr Analyst, Workday Reporting & Operations

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Manager, HR Operations & Reporting this role will be responsible for developing various Workday reports to support reporting deliverables and cadence to ensure that they tie to the established insights and analytics the HR team needs to support the organizations strategy. Additionally, this role will involve conducting detailed analysis of business processes and workflows within HCM Core for Workday, identifying areas for improvement or optimization, and providing valuable insights to enhance the employee and leader experience.

• Create and implement data models, dashboards, and reports that provide meaningful insights into key HR metrics and trends, while elevating data visualization capability across the HR function and automation

• Review and complete Workday cases relating to employee data reports and analytics

• Create recurring scheduled reports and ad hoc reports in Workday

• Continuous Improvement: Advise on industry standards and leading practices to enable CT in leveraging our Workday technology investment, increase efficiency and elevate data analytics

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their HR reporting needs including understanding the why, gathering feedback, and refining reports based on the needs identified

• Conduct detailed analysis of business processes and workflows, identifying areas for improvement or optimization within HCM Core, while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives

• Partner on cross-functional projects that involve gathering requirements, conducting gap analysis, designing solutions, testing configurations, and deploying changes in Workday

• Develop comprehensive documentation outlining business requirements, process improvements and supporting business related content and materials

• Continue to foster your expertise and actively participate in the Workday Community platform by joining relevant groups, forums, and discussions to stay on the latest enhancements and best practices and enable you to advise on industry standards and leading practices

What you bring

• Minimum of 5+ years of Workday reporting experience. Experience in HCM Core or other Workday modules

• Proven experience as a senior business analyst or similar role focusing on HCM systems with a strong background in business process improvement

• Expertise in conducting detailed analysis of business processes and workflows to identify areas for improvement or optimization within HCM Core for Workday

• Track record of working with teams to facilitate changes to Workday modules according to business requirements ensuring alignment with organizational objectives

• Extensive experience in developing documentation outlining business requirements, process improvements and training materials

• Proven ability to collaborate between technical teams (IT) and business units (HR), articulating business needs for Technology partners to translate it into technical specifications

• Proficiency in Workday Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Advanced Reports, and Dashboards

• Prior experience in Human Resources is required, with a strong emphasis on HR reporting and analytics

• Advanced knowledge of Excel including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, Charting, Index Match, Macros including VBA, Conditional Formatting and data validation

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, or related field

• Certification in Workday Reporting or similar credentials is an asset

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint programs

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present data insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to demonstrate close attention to detail and handle multiple tasks concurrently to meet deadlines, despite conflicting demands

• Demonstrated initiative and ability to recognize opportunities for improvement and efficiency

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently

• Outcome focused, critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize, resulting in continuous improvement across our business

• Able to identify and recommend suggestions on process and improvements focused on improving the employee and manager experience

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About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.