HR Data Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: HR Data Analyst 

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Take a proactive, strategic approach to data management and reporting, ensuring high-quality insights drive decision-making
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to cleanse and prepare people data, enabling accurate and effective analysis
• Engage with users to understand their data requirements and develop tailored solutions that align with business objectives
• Utilise data storytelling techniques to translate insights into actionable recommendations that enhance workforce strategy
• Deliver statistical and analytical reports to support HR and key stakeholders, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and data integrity
• Manage and update the monthly HR dashboard, ensuring it provides valuable support for HR colleagues across various business areas
• Oversee the HR Shared Document area, ensuring robust governance, ease of use, and fostering collaboration through document sharing
• Leverage advanced tools to identify trends and insights in workforce data, incorporating external data where relevant to BAE Systems
• Perform data cleansing and compare information from multiple sources to ensure consistency and accuracy, addressing issues swiftly

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven experience in data analysis and interpretation within a People/HR analytics environment
• Familiarity with HR systems and time/attendance systems
• Experience in creating and managing HR (or similar) dashboards
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Confident communicator with the ability to present data-driven insights effectively
• In-depth knowledge and experience with Microsoft packages, including advanced Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, complex formulas) and Power BI

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Human Resources Team:

You will be joining a team of 10 HR professionals, reporting to the HR Director, providing support to line managers, employees, and peers. In this role, you’ll help shape HR strategies and deliver key data-driven insights, playing a vital part in our growing organisation.

Electronic Systems in Rochester is a diverse organisation that produces high-integrity commercial and defence electronics, including systems for avionics, power and propulsion, and more. As we experience significant growth, driven by critical projects, we are investing in the future with a major site refurbishment, including a new 20,000m² factory.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking, rapidly evolving business at the forefront of technology.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 14th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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