The HR Data Analyst serves as analytical partner/SME to the business and is responsible for building, presenting, and partnering with the business on people and data analytics enabled solutions - from generating insights to the identification of changes to people programs and workforce structures. This position works as part of a team or in conjunction with department leadership to curate, create, and report out insights driven by data.
Major Responsibilities:
Project Based Analytical Support
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis using traditional and advanced analytical models, tools and techniques, including trending, correlation, budgeting\financial planning, forecasting, and what-if scenario analysis, for field and corporate leadership
• Effectively communicate the results and data driven recommendations/proposals to business partner.
Process Documentation, Recurring Processes, and Reporting
• Execute recurring reporting requests
• Maintain and support the upkeep of existing analytics and reporting
• Support ongoing maintenance needs of departments and senior analysts, ETL work, Data Feeds, etc..
• Business and Financial Coordination and Analysis
Educate Leaders and Business Partners
• Leverage developed tools and independent research to prepare presentations synthesizing analysis into clear, understandable findings and recommendations. Interpret data, draw conclusions, write reports, document findings, answer questions and make actionable recommendations.
Provide Enterprise Solutions
• Collaborate with HR functional experts and business leadership to develop key metrics, BI, and Advanced Analytical solutions that influence/enable decision making across the enterprise.
• Lead customer partnership/interactions through functional design & requirements gathering, expert recommendations, communication, and training in order to maximize the impact of analytical tools.
• Execute change management/communication plan for rolling out HR BI tools to end users.
• Define, design, develop and deploy dashboards, reports and workforce planning tools with appropriate security models.
• Coordinate and execute the data wrangling, data engineering, security standards, and automation required to maximize impact and minimize required maintenance.
• Investigate trends, best practices, benchmarks and out of industry examples to identify opportunities and approaches to utilize in analysis. Collect and review existing primary and secondary research and analyses, industry periodicals, company information, public information, academic literature, and other sources to answer questions, shape analytical plans, and supplement current analyses.
Qualifications:
• High School diploma or equivalent required
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Master's Degree preferred
• Data Analytics Specialties, Process Analysis certifications preferred
• 3 years of experience working in an analytical, data analysis or technology role. Work related to HR is preferred
• Advanced level of experience with the following is required: Financial Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Data visualization and story telling, Business Software (MS Suite, Etc.), and Document Management
• Advanced level of knowledge with MS Excel is required
• Beginner level of knowledge with Qlik designer and data mining is preferred
• Must understand complex relationships and requirements
• Must have advanced problem solving skills
• Ability to drive process change and adapt to system and business requirement changes quickly
• Must be able to determine how to combine data from multiple disjointed systems, how to overcome missing data from systems, and determine acceptable sample sizes in order to make conclusions.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment required
• Must have good communication and negotiation skills
• Experience with project management preferred
• Must be process focused and have critical thinking skills
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
Physical Requirements:
-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About Penske Truck Leasing
Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P., headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a partnership of Penske Corporation, Penske Automotive Group and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske operates a premier fleet of vehicles and serves its customers from locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Penske's product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit www.GoPenske.com to learn more.