Companies House Hiring for People Analyst at Cardiff Full Time

Our aim at Companies House is to be the best registry in the world, achieved through brilliant people working on brilliant systems delivering brilliant services.

Companies House values its people and their contributions and has created a real sense of community where people seek to create strong connections. Our commitment to learning and development is exceptional, and we believe passionately in the employee experience which is prevalent through the engagement, wellbeing and development strategies which have resulted in Gold Investors in People and MIND index awards.

We encourage professional development, celebrate success, and live our values to effect real change.

About the role:

It is an exciting time to join this newly developed analytical team which will be responsible for providing valuable analysis and evidence to support decisions about our people. We are maturing our methods and increasingly deploying a range of analytical methods to draw relevant and actionable insight from our analysis to better understand our people and drive high performance across Companies House.

We are on the lookout for a fantastic candidate who is curious and excited by investigation with the ability to identify relationships across different people indicators, in areas such as recruitment and retention, absence and performance. You will be comfortable engaging widely with stakeholders and customers to produce value-adding products and must be able to work independently. We are looking for an individual who strives to be innovative, creative and can challenge the status quo. You will ideally hold an understanding of people data and the behaviour of people in the work setting and be able to interpret analysis from this perspective, but this is not essential and can be developed over time. Importantly however, you will have good analytical skills, with the ability to use a variety of data tools, programmes and sources to extract, blend and visualise data for different audiences ranging from the top-level committees to managers and support areas. Utilising Excel, Alteryx and PowerBI will be essential; capability in the latter two can be developed on the job. You will produce predictive and prescriptive analysis that encourages curiosity and creates cultural shift.

This work requires strong data analysis skills and an understanding of forecasting techniques and their applications, along with data visualisation skills and a good understanding of improving data quality. This is a busy time within our HR function and so delivering at pace and adapting your priorities will be key as will collaborating with others and engaging with stakeholders within and outside of our organisation.

The People Analytics team is new, and you will form part of a function that is both proactive in exploring areas of interest and responsive to customer needs and requirements. The team is part of the wider Strategic Workforce Planning and HR Systems department within HR. The successful candidate must be comfortable with engaging widely with stakeholders and customers to produce value-adding products.

We are looking for a candidate with:

• Strong data analysis skills with proven experience in analysing complex data
• Experience of blending multiple data sources and developing reproducible analytical pipelines using ETL tool
• Previous experience of using data visualisation tools to present findings
• Excellent team working skills, with an ability to work autonomously at pace and with attention to detail
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify requirements and communicate findings
• Ability to bring a fresh perspective, whilst acknowledging other people’s views
• Able to take a positive approach when tackling problems, you recover quickly from setbacks and learn from them.

The following experience and skills are desirable for this role,

• An understanding of people indicators and how they translate the overall health of the organisation
• Experience with Alteryx and MS PowerBI
• Persuasive communication skills and an ability to articulate and justify interpretation of analytical findings
• Previous experience with HR systems and reporting tools, particularly iTrent and SAP Business Objects
• Experience of undertaking process reviews and implementing changes
• A demonstrable ability to link strategic goals with operational and financial information in order to facilitate holistic decision making.

In your first six months you will be:

• Carrying out research and analysis on a holistic range of people metrics, including employee turnover and absences
• Possess an eye for detail, and a proven ability to visualise data according to good practice and in a way that ensures the findings are easy to understand and interpret
• Inform and contribute to the design of data collection methods for internal people metrics
• Through analysis, support the identification of the root cause of current and emerging workforce issues, and help to drive improvements and innovation across HR and business processes
• Influence stakeholders in the use of HR data and analysis for decision making
• Using an agile approach, create products of value iterating improvements over short sprints of time
• Work effectively as part of a team to deliver products based on user needs, carry out ad hoc deep dive requests, and provide returns to external partners such as the ONS and Cabinet Office
• Measure and drive the efficiency and effectiveness of HR and Business processes and functions including but not restricted to Learning and Development (L&D), recruitment, workforce planning, people performance, attendance, engagement and people change
• To contribute to the implementation of new processes and IT solutions that will benefit the overall performance of the analytics team and wider HR function
• To take responsibility of one’s own learning and development, review existing learning and development opportunities and providing recommendations to develop the capability of the team overall
• Continuously seek to improve products, processes and services

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,663.00-£36,242.00 per year

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