Job Title MI & Data Advisor

Job Description

Job title MI & Data Advisor

Reporting to John Edwards – Head of People Services

Location HR Office, Leicester

Evaluation Date tbc

Main Purpose

To act as the subject matter expert on data, reporting and analysis within the HR function (both central and field-based) providing services that ensure that Priory data is always of the highest quality, and that business information and analysis is relevant and value-adding.

Key Responsibilities

Data integrity

·  To ensure that people-related data held within Priory systems is accurate, complete, relevant, and complies with the provisions of the Data Protection Act, and other statutory regulations, particularly those of our regulatory bodies.

Data Requirements

·  To act as the provider and the receiver of data, both internally and externally, always seeking to provide automated data feeds, or user reported data when there are recurring data requirements.

Reporting

·  To work with the HR Team to understand its regular reporting requirements and distil them into a consistent suite of reports for users to access as required.

·  To develop and deliver ad hoc reports as required, always seeking to add to the reports suite where they have wider currency.

Customer and Internal Relationships

·  Actively manage relationships with internal and external customers such that requirements are gathered which are concise and relevant and that the Advisor’s input is sought as early as possible.

·  Actively manage relationships to agree and produce cross-divisional reports wherever possible, rather than bespoked reports by Division.

·  To maintain productive working relationships with key internal contacts such as the IT Team led by Mike Sparks and ensure there are no overlaps in provision.

·  To educate internal customers as to their usage of data and reports, enabling them to be as self-sufficient as possible with regard to running pre-formatted reports.

Analysis and Analytics

·  Always seek to add value by conducting analysis and analytics on specific areas as advised in order to provide insight into root causes and their drivers. Areas of specific interest include employee turnover, absence, agency usage, resourcing practices and others.

Projects

·  To lead on all data and information reporting in HR and associated projects.

·  To provide input and modelling to any Due Diligence processes as a precursor to acquisition.

Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours required for success

·  Analytical capability in extracting, analysing and drawing conclusions/putting forward hypotheses from data.

·  Significant experience of the manipulation and presentation of data.

·  Advanced level Excel skills, competent with Word and Powerpoint.

·  Experience of one or more of the following: Crystal Reports, Microsoft Reporting Services, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

·  Knowledge and use of an HRIS, preferably including exposure to Payroll data.

·  Ideally, having worked with external third parties to receive and exchange data.

·  An enquiring mind, which has the ability to look beyond the obvious to determine root causes.

·  The ability to manage users such that data & reporting requirements can be determined and streamlined across Divisions.

December 2015