People Analytics & Insights Analyst

Quick Facts

• Role: People Analytics & Insights Analyst

• Focus: Descriptive workforce analytics, reporting, and dashboard development

Description

Build trusted partnerships with HR leaders and business stakeholders to translate workforce questions into analytics projects and measurable outcomes. Design and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and recurring/ad hoc reports, and develop Workday reporting to analyze headcount, hiring, retention, turnover, internal mobility, representation, and organizational health. Lead initiatives end-to-end from problem definition to delivery, adoption, and outcome measurement, ensuring data quality, clear metric documentation, and secure handling of sensitive employee information.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR and business stakeholders to define priorities, scope, and delivery timelines

• Translate business questions into analytics projects with clear decisions, definitions, and outcomes

• Communicate findings with data storytelling and executive-ready presentations

• Design and maintain workforce dashboards, scorecards, and reports

• Develop, validate, and troubleshoot Workday reports; partner with HR Technology for data access

• Perform descriptive analytics (trend, segmentation, period-over-period, variance) to explain workforce changes

• Investigate unusual patterns and reporting variances; clarify data limitations

• Prepare leadership reporting packages highlighting key metrics and material changes

• Improve report usability with consistent definitions, visualizations, and self-service filters

• Validate and reconcile workforce data and reporting outputs; resolve data quality issues

• Document metric definitions, calculation logic, data sources, assumptions, and refresh schedules

• Evaluate new workforce data sources and recommend measurement improvements

• Protect sensitive employee information and follow data privacy/security/confidentiality requirements

• Lead multiple analytics initiatives; measure delivery quality, usage, adoption, and reporting efficiency

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of experience in People Analytics, Workforce Analytics, Human Resources, Business Intelligence, or a related field

• Demonstrated experience translating workforce data into actionable insights through descriptive analytics, dashboards, and reporting

• Ability to define workforce metrics, analyze trends and variances, and explain findings/limitations to nontechnical audiences

• Experience with Tableau or Power BI and Alteryx (or similar) for data preparation

• Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with Oracle and Snowflake

• Hands-on experience with Workday reporting, including custom reports, calculated fields, and validation

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Strong business acumen regarding workforce metrics and ROI considerations

• Proven ability to lead analytics projects and manage multiple initiatives

• Ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; commitment to data accuracy

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid vacation, paid sick leave, and medical/dental/vision insurance

• Life, accident, and disability insurance; flexible spending and health savings accounts

• Employee assistance program and additional voluntary benefits (e.g., supplemental life, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident/hospital indemnity)

• Tuition reimbursement; transit support; employee stock purchase plan

• Retirement savings via WD Savings 401(k)

• Potential incentives and equity depending on role/performance (STI/SIP, and possible LTI/RSUs for eligible roles)