Who are we?

Howden is a collective – a group of talented and passionate people all around the world. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 18,000 employees spanning over 100 countries.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

About the Role

Here at Howden Group Holdings, we are transforming the way we deliver HR services to our business, and this is an exciting time to join our evolving HR function as we look to drive commercially aligned and strategic HR support to our stakeholders.

Reporting to the Workday Programme Lead, the Senior HR Data Analyst will take on a vital role by leveraging your expertise in Workday system deployments. Your primary objective will be to manage and analyse employee data as part of the deployment of Workday across the globe, working with the local and technical teams to ensure consistency, clarity and accuracy across each data set.

The successful incumbent will bring with them prior experience of managing large data sets, and will be entrepreneurial in their methods for obtaining, understanding and verifying data.  They will have the ability to understand and reflect business priorities in their approach to data management and reporting.  Additionally, they will contribute to data-driven decision-making, process optimisation, and overall HR strategy alignment.

Key Accountabilities

• Data Analysis and Reporting: Leverage reporting tools to gather and manipulate HR data, conducting comprehensive analysis to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities.
• Generate regular and ad hoc reports to enable the project team to track data workstream progress and highlight insights to stakeholders.
• Translate complex data requirements into easily digestible formats for diverse audiences, including local HR teams and key programme stakeholders.
• Work closely with peers in the technical project team to drive data accuracy and suitability for Workday set up.
• Regularly audit data to identify and resolve discrepancies
• Optimisation: Identify opportunities for process improvement within Workday project operations. Leveraging your Workday expertise and stakeholder management skills, partner with the technical team to streamline workflows.
• Help key users to audit their data and maintain data integrity.
• Identify data issues/risks and raise through the appropriate channels.
• Build knowledge and share data expertise and techniques to cultivate a data driven culture across the wider HR team.
• Monitor data to ensure system integrity and consistency and identify measures to address any gaps. Carrying out quality assurance activity including data audits, identifying, and addressing data quality issues to ensure data integrity standards are identified, communicated, and adhered to effectively.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Extraordinary attention to detail.

• An inquisitive and challenging mind, with an interest in questioning and improving the as-is.
• Proactive, “can do” attitude with high levels of motivation and drive with the ability to work independently.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines while managing multiple deliverables with strong attention to detail.
• Solid communication skills; ability to synthesise and communicate information from a wide variety of sources.
• Strong interpersonal and engagement skills; ability to deal with stakeholders throughout the business and able to present information in a clear way to different audiences.
• A team player, able to work independently, but also to contribute to the wider team and department.

• Experience in Workday deployments, including testing, cutover and integrations, with a broad understanding of the Workday data fields is desirable.

• Experience of Power BI and a knowledge of SQL / Python would be advantageous.

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us:

• Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

• We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

• We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

Reasonable adjustments

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs.  Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*.

If you're excited by this role but have some doubts about whether it’s the right fit for you, send us your application – if your profile fits the role’s criteria, we will be in touch to assist in helping to get you set up with any reasonable adjustments you may require.

*Not all positions can accommodate changes to working hours or locations. Reach out to your Recruitment Partner if you want to know more.