HRIS Reporting Analyst III

The HRIS Reporting Analyst III is a senior individual contributor on the HRIS team within Total Rewards, responsible for designing and delivering advanced technical analytics solutions that transform Clayton's people data into clear, trustworthy, and actionable insights. This role leads complex reporting initiatives across multiple platforms, including Workday, Tableau, Prism, and SSRS, and serves as a subject matter expert in data governance and HR data architecture. Operating with a high degree of independence, the HRIS Reporting Analyst III partners across the HR enterprise to ensure reporting solutions are visually compelling, technically sound, and meaningfully aligned to business priorities such that HR can leverage people data successfully. Previous Workday experience is necessary.

• Receive, triage, and fulfill ad-hoc reporting and data requests, prioritizing based on urgency and business impact and communicating timelines clearly to requesters.
• Investigate and resolve reporting issues, including broken reports, data discrepancies, and access problems, performing root-cause analysis and documenting resolutions for recurring patterns.
• Perform routine maintenance on the team's catalog of existing reporting solutions, including refresh updates, logic corrections, and periodic audits of report accuracy and relevance.
• Utilize the team's ticket management system to track incoming requests, log progress, and maintain a clear and current queue.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex reporting issues worked by teammates, providing technical guidance and ensuring timely resolution.
• Contribute findings and recurring issue patterns to the team's shared knowledge base to reduce repeated troubleshooting effort.
• Write efficient SQL queries to retrieve, transform, and analyze HR data from Clayton's approved data warehouse(s)
• Perform data analyses of varying complexity in Excel or equivalent tools, summarizing findings in formats that are clear and usable by HR stakeholders.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain analytics solutions that present Clayton's people data in formats that are visually clear, intuitively organized, and aligned to business needs. The team's reporting toolkit includes, but is not limited to, Workday advanced, matrix, and composite reports; Tableau dashboards and visualizations; and SSRS or equivalent reporting tools.
• Translate complex business questions from HR stakeholders into well-structured, accurate, and maintainable reporting and dashboarding solutions.
• Select the appropriate tool and report type for each request based on the audience, complexity, and data requirements involved.
• Apply strong visual design judgment to ensure outputs are clean, readable, and structured to support good decision-making.
• Participate in Workday release cycles by assessing the impact of new features on existing reports and identifying opportunities to adopt new reporting capabilities.
• Document solution designs, data sources, and refresh logic in shared team resources to support knowledge continuity and reduce single points of failure.
• Develop and maintain audits, standards, and documentation that promote a consistent and disciplined approach to how Clayton defines and manages data elements within Workday HCM.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues, applying knowledge of data cleansing, profiling, and data management concepts.
• Champion data quality practices within the team and with HR stakeholders, communicating the importance of clean, governed data to analytical outcomes.

• Experience working in an HCM supporting 10,000+ workers preferred

• Advanced proficiency in Workday HCM reporting, including advanced, matrix, and composite report types

• Strong experience in Microsoft Excel for data analysis and stakeholder-ready summaries

• Familiarity with data governance practices including data quality, data profiling, master data management, and metadata standards

• Sound ethical judgment and discretion in handling sensitive people data

• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities of varying size and complexity

• Team player and self-starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks while meeting deadlines

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical HR audiences

• Ability to productively mentor teammates in areas of technical expertise and champion team processes and policies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently

• Practical understanding of the HR discipline including Benefits, Compensation, Learning, Payroll, Recruiting, and Talent Management

• Experience documenting requirements, processes, and test cases

• Strong combination of at least some of the below

• SQL development skills

• Experience documenting requirements and test cases

• Proficiency in Tableau for dashboard development and data visualization

• Experience with Workday Prism Analytics

• Knowledge of database concepts, including data structure, storage, and access design