Senior HR & People Insights Analyst

About the role

Bentley Systems is seeking a strategic consultant and advanced analytics expert to join our team. The role is hybrid, with preference given to an office location in Exton, Pennsylvania, though remote candidates are also considered.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR leaders to focus on high-value questions and translate business challenges into problems and hypotheses.
• Provide high-level executive briefings, offering strategic recommendations that influence talent strategy, workforce planning, and organizational design.
• Integrate insights across the HR team to provide a single, coherent view of the workforce ecosystem.
• Develop and deploy predictive models to address critical business questions such as turnover forecasting, skills gap analysis, workforce demand planning, and high-performer identification.
• Research and identify benchmarking, best practices, and market trends.
• Ensure regular, accurate, and timely delivery of workforce analytics and reports to HRBPs, Finance, and business stakeholders.
• Develop storytelling methodologies that transform complex data into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with executive leadership and drive strategic action.
• Design and build advanced visualization and reporting tools, including intuitive, actionable dashboards in platforms like Microsoft PowerBI.
• Present analytics results with a strong focus on data storytelling and actionable insights for internal clients.
• Establish enterprise standards ensuring reporting and dashboards consistently surface insights tied to priority business outcomes.
• Maintain data governance standards, policies on data usage, privacy, and security.
• Monitor analytics practices and AI-generated outputs for biased outcomes, ensuring fairness and compliance with global data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in people analytics, workforce intelligence, data science, or a related analytical role, preferably within a global, complex organization.
• Proven track record of translating complex data into actionable business insights and effectively influencing senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering predictive analytics models and translating outputs into business decisions.
• Experience with data extraction/wrangling from multiple systems.
• Experience in the technology, engineering software, or professional services industries is strongly preferred.
• Expert-level proficiency in data visualization tools such as Microsoft PowerBI, Workday.
• Strong skills in data manipulation.
• Expertise or significant experience building and deploying predictive models.
• Demonstrated AI literacy; ability to evaluate, validate, and govern AI-generated outputs, including generative AI tools, for accuracy, fairness, and business relevance.
• Exceptional business acumen, curiosity, and ability to connect people analytics directly to strategic business goals and financial drivers.
• Enable data-driven culture and decision-making.
• A strong consultative mindset with the ability to diagnose ambiguous problems, frame analytical questions, and architect effective solutions.
• High degree of organizational savvy; comfortable working with all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional communication and data storytelling skills, with the ability to present complex information to non-technical audiences in a clear, compelling, and persuasive manner.
• Ability to synthesize complex data and analytics into visually appealing, easy-to-understand reporting.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a field emphasizing data analysis (e.g., Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science).
• A Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, HR Analytics, or a related field is preferred.