Talent Data Analyst

About the role

This role represents a strategic evolution of HR analytics, functioning as a “People FP&A” hybrid. You will move beyond traditional reporting to own and support human capital budgeting, workforce planning, and forecasting, ensuring talent strategy aligns tightly with financial and operational goals.

Responsibilities

• Workforce Planning & Budgeting Support and help evolve the firm’s human capital budgeting process, including salary, taxes, and total compensation spend
• Align headcount planning with financial forecasts, ensuring talent decisions are grounded in cost data
• Partner with Finance to support annual budgeting cycles and ongoing workforce forecasts
• Build and maintain analytics and reporting within Visier, enabling leaders to self-serve insights into headcount, budget, and workforce trends
• Support development of cost center frameworks, improving visibility into spend by department vs. location
• Contribute to the continued evolution of the firm’s talent analytics ecosystem, including AI-enabled insights
• Evolve the firm’s analytics capabilities from descriptive reporting to predictive and decision-oriented insights, enabling more proactive, data-driven leadership decisions
• Monitor workforce plans against real-time data and adjust as business needs evolve
• Perform Actuals vs. Forecast analysis to identify variances in headcount and spend
• Maintain the master workforce plan, incorporating hiring, attrition, and internal mobility dynamics
• Execute executive reporting and storytelling, translating complex workforce data into clear, actionable business insights and narratives
• Support senior leadership conversations by connecting talent metrics to firm performance

Qualifications

• Experience: 0–3 years in FP&A, People Analytics, Business Operations, or similar analytical role
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Analytics, HR, or related field
• Technical Skills: Advanced Excel skills (required)
• Experience with HRIS, analytics tools, or Visier (preferred)
• Finance Acumen: Understanding of budgeting, labor costs, and how workforce decisions impact financial outcomes
• AI Literacy: Comfort using AI tools to analyze data and generate insights
• Core Traits: Strong critical thinking and sound judgment, intellectual curiosity and attention to detail, proactive communication and stakeholder awareness, self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset