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This role partners with P&C functional leaders, including Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, and P&C Operations, as well as Finance and other stakeholders, to understand the People Analytics roadmap and develop scalable, maintainable solutions using Advanced, Matrix, Trending, Composite Reports, Dashboards and Discovery boards. The role provides insights into workforce trends, organizational health, talent outcomes, and business performance; leads assigned reporting initiatives within the HRIS roadmap; and works closely with the HRIS Manager and business teams to leverage Workday reporting capabilities, Reporting Agents, Hubs, and configurations aligned with business needs.\nA Key responsibility of this role is to understand and integrate multiple data sources, applying techniques ranging from basic data aggregation to complex statistical analysis. The Reporting Analyst translates data into meaningful insights, develops compelling visualizations and presentations, and communicates trends and analysis to support informed decision-making.\nThe Reporting Analyst will develop best-practice resources and guides to support effective adoption of Workday reporting capabilities across P&C functional leaders. This includes documenting standard reporting workflows, providing guidance on report functionality and best practices, supporting change management, and helping teams adopt new reporting processes and solutions. The role will also mentor HRIS team members, provide guidance on complex reporting issues for accuracy, consistency, and adherence to established processes and standards.\nPosition Responsibilities\nOwnership of day-to-day reporting deliverables and operational support of report requests, inquiries and tickets. Produce and deliver standard and customized People reports (monthly, quarterly and annual), using Workday and Power BI primarily with actionable insights.\nProactively develop and enhance Workday HCM dashboards, facilitate the definition and development of business and predictive KPIs and metrics across the People/HR function, and recommend the most effective tools for delivery.\nPartner with internal stakeholders to define business problems, analyze data, and present insights and dashboards that support informed people-related decisions and translate findings into meaningful recommendations for leadership. Analyzes and interprets data using various techniques, from simple data aggregation to complex statistical analysis.\nSummarizes insights and present findings to a range of audiences, including executives, business leaders, hiring managers and People/HR team members. Able to build the story behind the data and develop compelling visualizations and presentations.\nUnderstands and analyzes end-to-end processes and underlying data from multiple sources to identify data inconsistencies and make recommendations. Works with HRIS and Business teams to improve data integrity and advance KPI/metrics definition and reporting.\nTranslate workforce trends into clear, compelling narratives and executive-ready presentations that provide leaders with meaningful context, key drivers, and potential actions, while establishing consistent standards for presenting and communicating People data across the organization.\nParticipates in and leads data/analytics projects, involved in planning and scoping, requirements and specifications development, prototyping and playback, testing, and deployment (including change management tasks such as communications and training).\nStays up to date with latest industry research and leading practices in People/HR analytics and actively participates in Workday Community and other forums. Continually identifies opportunities to innovate and evolve people analytics roadmap.\nProvide reporting and analytics training and guidance to end users.\nAdhere to data privacy, access, security, system change control, and reporting governance requirements.\nPartner with HR Business Partners to identify workforce trends and provide analytical support for business discussions.\nCollaborate with Talent Acquisition on recruiting metrics, time-to-fill, hiring trends, candidate pipelines, and workforce demand.\nPartner with Total Rewards on compensation, pay equity, market competitiveness, incentive, and benefits analytics.\nCollaborate with Talent Management on performance, succession, career movement, and organizational capability analytics.\nPartner with Finance to support workforce planning, headcount reconciliation, forecasting, and related workforce metrics.\nPartner with HRIS to ensure appropriate security, data access, and reporting governance.\nSupport the testing and validation of Workday releases and system changes affecting workforce reporting and analytics..\nEnsure all reporting activities and initiatives align with company objectives, P&C strategies, and compliance requirements.\nOther duties as assigned by Total Rewards leadership.\nBasic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience)\nBachelor’s degree in business, IT/MIS, Data Science, Statistics, Math or related fields, or 4+ years of professional experience in lieu of degree.\n5+ years of experience including 3+ years in a People/HR data analytics and reporting capacity, with in-depth knowledge of People/HR reporting and data, including HR, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Learning, and Talent.\nIn-depth experience of building and maintaining advanced Workday HCM reports and dashboards, including advanced calculated fields.\nExperience with integrating to a data warehouse/data lake and consolidating data from multiple sources.\nExperience and familiarity with statistical analysis and data visualization tools, such as PowerBI or Tableau.\nOther Qualifications & Desired Competencies\nExperience with Workday Prism Analytics, People Analytics, Discovery Boards, or related Workday analytical capabilities.\nExperience with Power BI, Tableau, or another business intelligence platform.\nExperience with SQL or other data-querying tools.\nExperience integrating HR data with Finance, recruiting, compensation, or other enterprise datasets.\nExperience developing workforce dashboards for executive leadership.\nExperience supporting workforce planning or predictive workforce analytics.\nExperience within a complex, matrixed, high-growth, manufacturing, technology, aerospace, or defense environment.\nStrong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.\nProven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with HR, IT, and business leaders in a global, cross-functional environment.\nAbility to sit, stand, stoop, reach, lift (up to 10 lbs.), bend, etc. Hand and wrist dexterity to utilize the computer.\nMay require minimal travel to sites/program and special functions.\nPhysical Demands\nAbility to work in an office environment (Constant)\nRequired to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)\nClearance Level\nNo ClearanceThe salary range for this role is:\n$111,000 - $188,500AeroVironment considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the location, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education/training, and key skills.\nITAR Requirement:\nThis position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on AeroVironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironment’s business requirements. A “U.S. person” according to the ITAR definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.\nBenefits: AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown. For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit: http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.\nWe also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.\nPrincipals only need apply. NO agencies please.\nAbout AV:\nAV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.\nWe don’t just build defense technology-we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber. From AI-powered drones and loitering munitions to integrated autonomy and space resilience, our technologies shape the future of warfare and protect those who serve.\nFounded by legendary innovator Dr. Paul MacCready, AV has spent over 50 years pushing the boundaries of what unmanned systems can do. Our heritage includes seven platforms in the Smithsonian-but we’re not building history, we’re building what’s next.\nIf you're ready to build technology that matters-with speed, scale, and purpose-there’s no better place to do it than AV.\nWe are proud to be an EEO/AA Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans. AeroVironment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. 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