Senior People Analyst

The Senior People Analyst is a key member of the Total Rewards & Analytics team and is focused on supporting benefits and compensation program initiatives while also participating in the design, implementation and administration of our people analytics. Your ability to perform analysis, extract key insights from multiple data sources, and tell the story with data will help us track HR activities and success measurements.

Key Responsibilities

Benefits –

• Process and analyze data related to employee health and wellness benefits, which includes partnering with Payroll to maintain data integrity, ensure timely, accurate benefits processing, and address concerns with vendor interfaces.
• Perform monthly reconciliation of benefit invoices, payroll deductions and general ledger. Analyze variances to the benefits budget.
• Research and resolve employee benefit issues, partnering with appropriate vendor on escalated concerns.
• Monitor weekly file feed integrations for discrepancies or rejections and resolve data discrepancy in employee profiles.
• Actively participate in vendor meetings.
• Perform the annual 401K nondiscrimination testing and audit.
• Lead data review for annual ACA 1095 validation and filing
• Assist with annual open enrollment and day-to-day administration of benefit plans, including benefits system setup and maintenance.
• Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, ensure data accuracy, streamline work process, decrease turnaround time, and work cooperatively with team to provide quality, seamless customer service

Compensation –

• Assist in the administration of compensation programs, including merit and annual incentive programs and system configurations
• Benchmark positions to market using survey data and other market intelligence to determine competitive strategic ranges that are cohesive to the organization
•  Ensures compliance within compensation guidelines, budgets, pay equity, FLSA classifications, etc. and tracks regulatory changes and trends
• Create and ensures job descriptions are accurate and complete when roles and/or structures change 
• Analyze internal and external data to identify trends and insights
• Documents processes and creates work aids and training documents as needed to streamline work and improve customer service

HRIS/People Analytics –

• In partnership with IT, your HR peers, Payroll, and Consultants, create specifications for HRIS system changes, new functionality, and interfaces to and from other systems, both internal and external
• Organize and facilitate meetings with HR, Payroll, and/or other peers to determine system goals and capture requirements. 
• Design, implement and maintain ongoing and ad-hoc reports with key HR metrics and insights
• Accurately analyze and collect internal and external data for various types of HR reports to identify changes in business and market trends
• Build reports, spreadsheets, and dashboards using multiple data sources to meet business requirements, including team and individual performance, process evaluations, data integrity and report audits
• Provide training to existing and new users of reports and dashboards
• Work with internal stakeholders to answer data & reporting questions and ensure reports meet business needs, work on cross-functional projects and share best practices

Desired Qualifications – 

• 3+ years of experience in Human Resources, Total Rewards or People Analytics space providing compensation, benefits and reporting analysis
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of employee benefit and compensation programs
• Understanding of data and reporting management including data integrity, privacy & security, and data sensitivity
• Strong data analytics skills and ability to leverage multiple internal and external data sources to enable data-driven insights and inform strategic HR decisions
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; advanced skills in Excel (pivot tables, vlookup, xlookup, functions, etc.).
• Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy and timeliness
• Great data visualization skills and user-centric thinking
• Demonstrated ability to effectively partner with all levels of the organization and positively influence teams through a data-driven approach

Preferred:

• Experience working with and building reports with data extracted from various HRIS systems including UKG.
• Experience with analytics and visualization tools, especially PowerBI
• Experience using labor market data and analytics tools
• Experience editing pre-existing dashboards and the design & build of new dashboards
• Willingness and proven ability to learn new software and/or experience with Microsoft Visio, Project, SharePoint, Teams, and other data analysis, visualization & reporting tools