Workday Reporting & Analytics Analyst

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to advance their career in People Analytics. As a team, we work closely together to use different Workday tools to produce meaningful analysis to people across BDO. We are looking for someone to be involved in our larger reporting development projects as well as support with our ad hoc data and analytics requests. The team are constantly looking to make sure we are maximizing the tools we can use in Workday, while ensuring that what we produce is of high quality and meaningful.

In this role you’ll be:

• Leading and supporting delivery of Workday-based dashboards, reports and people data insights
• Taking ownership of assigned reporting and analytics projects – managing from scoping through to testing, launch and engagement
• Developing and enhancing strategic reporting solutions in Workday, aligned to firm-wide needs and goals
• Supporting routine and cyclical reporting needs, ensuring accuracy, consistency and strong data governance
• Exploring and testing new Workday functionality and recommending ways to improve our use of the platform
• Proactively engaging with stakeholders to understand their needs, surface opportunities and co-create data-led solutions
• Supporting Workday testing, training, documentation and education for HR and business users
• Identify and drive key improvements and automations to processes and reporting
• Support the firm in a progression towards a self-service dominated reporting suite, encouraging a live and dynamic approach to management information

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Advanced Workday report writer experience. Capable of utilising all Workday reporting types: Advanced, Matrix and Composite reports, Dashboards and Drive solutions (e.g. Worksheets, Discovery Boards and Slides)
• Proficient in creating and utilising all necessary Workday calculated field functions
• End-to-end Prism expertise
• Experience working within a central Workday team or similar structure
• Strong analytical and numerical ability — able to analyse data to identify trends and translate into actionable insights
• Able to manage data accuracy, quality and GDPR compliance
• Able to work as part of a collective, contributing towards a strong team bond and ensuring the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• Appreciation of the importance of sustainable report development and documentation, ensuring the best practice is applied consistently
• Able to manage complex projects from start to finish
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with multiple stakeholders at all levels and across all communication formats, including leadership team and function leaders
• Competent managing own priorities and adhering to multiple, often conflicting, deadlines
• Basic understanding of Workday security an advantage, but not a prerequisite
• Basic Power BI and DAX skills an advantage, but not a prerequisite
• Experience of working within a professional services organisation an advantage, but not a prerequisite

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.