People Analytics & Insights Analyst

Quick Facts

• Senior People Analytics role focused on workforce reporting, descriptive analytics, and dashboard development.
• Partners with HR leaders and business stakeholders to deliver executive-ready insights and recommendations.

Description

The People Analytics & Insights Analyst turns workforce data into actionable insights that inform talent and organizational decisions. The role emphasizes descriptive analytics, workforce reporting, and dashboard development—explaining what changed, where trends differ, and what leadership should focus on. You will combine hands-on analysis with stakeholder partnership to make workforce information accurate, accessible, and useful.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR leaders and business stakeholders to understand workforce priorities and identify analytics opportunities.
• Translate business questions into analytics projects with defined reporting requirements, scope, metrics, and delivery timelines.
• Communicate findings through data storytelling, practical recommendations, and executive-ready presentations.
• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and recurring or ad hoc reports.
• Develop and maintain Workday reports; validate outputs, troubleshoot discrepancies, and coordinate data access with HR Technology.
• Analyze headcount, hiring, retention, turnover, internal mobility, representation, and organizational health across business units and employee groups.
• Use trend analysis, segmentation, period-over-period comparisons, and variance analysis to explain workforce changes and emerging risks/opportunities.
• Investigate unusual patterns and reporting variances; distinguish confirmed findings from hypotheses and explain data limitations.
• Validate and reconcile workforce data and reporting outputs; document metric definitions, calculation logic, and refresh schedules.
• Evaluate new workforce data sources and recommend improvements to reporting processes and measurement frameworks.
• Lead analytics initiatives end-to-end: requirements gathering, delivery, stakeholder adoption, and outcome measurement.
• Measure delivery quality, report usage, stakeholder adoption, and reporting efficiency to identify continuous improvements.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time and paid sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Employee assistance program and voluntary benefits (e.g., supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity).
• Tuition reimbursement and transit.
• Employee stock purchase plan and WD Savings 401(k) Plan.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in People Analytics, Workforce Analytics, Human Resources, Business Intelligence, or a related analytical field.
• Demonstrated descriptive analytics experience translating workforce data into actionable insights.
• Ability to define workforce metrics, analyze trends/variances, and explain findings and limitations to nontechnical audiences.
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI and Alteryx (or similar data preparation tools).
• Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with Oracle and Snowflake.
• Hands-on experience with Workday reporting (custom reports, calculated fields, validation, and reporting security).
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, business acumen, and project leadership.
• Experience handling highly confidential and sensitive information with discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Analytics, Business, Human Resources, Organizational Management, Statistics, or a related field.
• Knowledge of survey analytics and employee listening programs.
• Familiarity with statistical methods and quantitative analysis.
• Interest in advanced analytics and workforce planning.