HR Information Analyst

Job Summary

The School District of Philadelphia is seeking an HR Information Analyst to provide advanced business process information analysis and reporting. This role serves as the functional lead for Talent and ensures the quality development of information analyses. Key responsibilities include developing complex analyses and reports, managing data integrity, and recommending process and system improvements.

Essential Functions

• Develops complex analyses and reports as requested by senior management.
• Identifies data and information requirements; determines analytical and evaluative criteria to be utilized, including which measurement instruments are most appropriate.
• Develops and maintains key Talent statistics, metrics, and methods to measure Talent performance.
• Creates reports and informational analyses to support decision-making, strategic initiatives and other special projects.
• Works with Talent business process owners in resolving data collection, loading, quality and reporting matters.
• Manages data integrity by serving as a liaison to other District offices in the preparation of multi-faceted analytical and evaluative studies which contain data pertaining to Talent.
• Recommends business process and system improvements to assist in the creation and analysis of information needed to comply with all applicable local, federal and state government regulations.
• Systmatically diagnoses and resolves complex data quality issues and reporting discrepancies, tracing errors from source systems through to final reports; serves as the primary technical troubleshooter for data integrity and data repair within the Office of Talent, and proactively addresses work process issues to ensure reliable data compilation and reporting.
• Interprets findings through written reports and oral presentations to the management team; explains outcomes and implications.
• Defines an information management process and system to ensure timely and appropriate response to customer’s request.
• Designs, develops and implements reports as needed.
• Works with the Office of Information Technology in defining business requirements and supporting the development and implementation of applications and/or systems to support Talent.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in information science, business management or a related field.
• Five years of full-time, paid experience in data gathering, analysis and reporting, at least two of which have involved defining complex operational data and business processes and the creation of information management reports and systems.

Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of: principles, practices and procedures utilized in data gathering, quality assurance and analysis.
• Knowledge of standards, principles, practices, methods and techniques of data processing systems and design.
• Knowledge of the use of applications that are used to create and/or maintain information, design spreadsheets and create reports and documents (MS Excel and Goggle Suites).
• Knowledge of information systems and applications for collection and reporting of data (Oracle, Qlik, Tableau or any enterprise BI tool).
• Knowledge of enterprise applications used for the purpose of running an organization such as ERP (Oracle, Lawton, et cetera).
• Ability to: plan and carryout work initiatives from start to finish with minimal supervision.
• Ability to prepare and interpret narrative and technical human resources reports which include clear recommendations.
• Ability to prepare reports using statistical software and/or programming languages like STATA, R, Python, and SQL.
• Ability to apply quality assurance procedures and best practices to data management processes.
• Ability to effectively conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses.
• Ability to clearly articulate thoughts effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to manage and protect confidentiality and the data integrity of employee information.
• Ability to create databases and use reporting applications and systems.
• Ability to apply problem solving and deductive reasoning skills in the maintenance of databases/tracking systems.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.