Sr Workday Reporting Analyst - Billerica, MA or Alpharetta, GA Hybrid

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow's needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

If you do not meet every requirement, or your experience is slightly different that what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply!

Your Role at Cabot:

We are seeking a Senior Workday Reporting Analyst to design, build, maintain, and optimize Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics that support data-driven decision-making across HR and the wider business. This role will partner closely with senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, Digital, and other areas of the business to translate reporting needs into scalable, accurate, and user-friendly solutions and will report to the Head of HRIS.

The ideal candidate will bring:

• 2-5 years of hands-on Workday reporting experience
• Strong analytical capability, and a solid understanding of Workday data structures, calculated fields, security, and business processes.
• Workday Reporting (Pro or Partner Certified)is preferred
• Experience in HCM, Learning, Recruiting, or Compensation is highly desirable; candidates with a willingness to build expertise in one or more of these functional areas will also be considered.

Candidate will be located at either Cabot location of Billerica, MA or Alpharetta, GA. The individual will participate in the current HybridWorking Arrangement program (Monday/Friday remote and Tuesday-Thursday in office).

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Design, build, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize Workday reports, including custom, advanced, matrix, composite, dashboard, and self-service reporting solutions.

• Create and maintain calculated fields, prompts, filters, business objects, report definitions, custom dashboards, and hubs to meet business requirements.

• Partner with HR, Digital, Finance, functional process owners, and other stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify reporting objectives, and translate business questions into accurate, actionable reporting solutions.

• Serve in an advisory role across Workday functional areas for reporting strategy and data lake integration.

• Ensure reports are accurate, secure, scalable, and aligned with Workday security, data governance, privacy, and audit requirements.

• Troubleshoot report issues, perform root-cause analysis, conduct unit testing and support UAT, and recommend improvements to reporting logic, usability, and performance.

• Support Workday releases by assessing report impacts, testing enhancements, and updating reports, documentation, job aids, and reporting standards as needed.

• Maintain reporting governance through inventories, tags, documentation, and standards that support consistency and knowledge sharing.

• Offer training and end-user support, including documentation, user guides, and videos.

• Handle confidential HR data with discretion and in accordance with applicable policies and controls.

What You'll Bring to Cabot:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience creating and maintaining reports and dashboards in Workday, either from a partner or end-user HRIS team.
• Strong experience across Workday report types, calculated fields, prompts, filters, business objects, data sources, and custom dashboards.
• An understanding of Workday security as relates to data sources, business objects, calc fields, etc.
• Experience translating business requirements into clear, accurate, maintainable reporting solutions and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data validation skills, with high attention to detail and comfort working with large datasets in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with confidential HR or employee data and understanding of HR data governance, Workday security roles, compliance reporting, and SOX/audit controls.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience creating training materials, reporting guides, or stakeholder enablement resources.
• Continuous improvement mindset and willingness to learn new Workday functionality.
• Experience in a multi-national organization, including across languages, ideally within the manufacturing industry or FMCG.

Preferred:

• Workday Reporting certification (Pro or Partner Certified)
• Hands-on experience with discovery boards, worksheets, and/or BIRT reporting.
• Demonstrable use of AI in Workday
• Hands-on experience with PowerBI
• Prior experience in at least one of the following Workday functional areas, or demonstrate a strong willingness and aptitude to learn:
• Learning: Learning assignments, audiences and learning campaigns, course and program reporting, completion tracking, and learner analytics.
• Recruiting: Candidate pipelines and job applications, offer/hiring, requisitions
• HCM: Worker data, organizations, staffing events, jobs, positions, and core compensation elements

How We'll Support Your Success:

• The pay range for this role is from $91,750 to $129,600. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skill, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, all positions are eligible for health benefits on the first day of employment, 401K savings plans, vision, dental and annual bonus based on company performance.

• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment - We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
• Hybrid Work Environment- The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week.
• Growth-Training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.
• Meaningful Work that is Valued- Customers are demanding sustainable solutions without compromising quality or performance. The work we do is visible, and is helping to create a more abundant, affordable, and cleaner future. It is an awesome feeling to know you're making a living by making a positive impact in the world; and to be able to say, "I was a part of that."
• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. - We offer a competitive package of benefits. Benefits begin on first day of employment. Cabot Benefits
• Feedback- We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.

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At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, "Creating for Tomorrow," we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability - today and into the future.

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001
Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees' and applicants' disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay
This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background Checks
Cabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.