Human Resources Systems And Data Analyst

HR Systems and Data Analyst

Education South West (ESW) is a successful and growing multi-academy Trust. Currently the Trust comprises 15 schools: 5 secondary, 1 all through (primary and secondary) and 9 primary, schools, educating 6,000 children. The Trust has a track record of supporting schools which are part of the Trust as well as schools outside of the Trust, with a core aim of making children’s lives better. ESW is nationally recognised as one of the leading Trusts in the country, and leads the South West Institute for Teaching, delivering professional training for newly qualified and experienced teachers across hundreds of schools in the South West; ESW is also accredited to train aspiring teachers to become qualified teachers to commence their career. 

As a successful Trust, continued growth is planned, with a number of schools in ongoing discussions with us to join the Trust.

The Finance Director & Chief Operating Officer leads Shared Services, which provides proactive business partnering to the educational leaders of the Trust and the schools steering, driving and managing on their behalf:  financial control and planning, payroll, human resource, IT (information technology), data analytics and reporting, operations (including estates, facilities and catering), compliance, sustainability, marketing and admissions, capital planning and project delivery. The FD & COO is supported by a Director of Accounting, IT Director, Compliance Director, Data Analytics and Reporting Manager, and Operations Managers who provide consolidated leadership across all of the shared services staff and functions, across all schools and activities of the Trust.

The Mission:

To play a leading role in delivering and then managing the target systems, data and workflow architecture to support our strategy to invest in and develop processes, systems, data quality, and analysis and reporting connected with the operational management and strategic development of our people. 

What you will be doing

This is a brand new role which presents an exciting opportunity to be instrumental in transforming the HR Systems and Data platforms.

You will define and own the full life cycle of recruitment, approval processes, talent management – career development, pathway management, professional development – and the people data requirements to underpin the Systems and Data plan.

Support the selection, implementation (collaborating with cross functional teams, including payroll, finance and IT) and ongoing administration of system solutions including application tracking, CPD tracking, employee portals and core HR management information systems.

Leading on the development of data analysis and interpretation, growing value-added data challenge and questioning to drive decision making.  Developing close working partnerships with educational leaders of schools as well as business leaders across the Trust to better use and interpret data, providing the expert Data Analyst partner to their functional/operational expertise.

Supporting the creation, enhancement and maintenance of data pipelines/processes that contribute to the provision of comprehensive and trusted performance information to support decision making at management and operational levels within the organisation.

Develop and maintain HR system documentation, including user manuals, process maps and training materials.

Providing primary leadership and direction, and quality control and review, to a team (currently 3) of Human Resources administrators, ensuring:

• that data collection and process quality and Data completeness and integrity remains high,
• efficient, effective and robust processes are in place for collecting, validating, processing, transforming and publishing data.
• internal users of the databases are supported in the use of/access to the data

Your experience and your aptitude:

• You will need to be a confident, articulate communicator with a customer-orientated approach, who is flexible and adaptable with the ability to multi-task and deal with multiple demands on your time. ESW will invest in your professional development, paying for and supporting your acquisition of qualifications across the spectrum of HR, Systems and Data development.
• You are already an experienced human Resources Systems and Data Analyst, having ideally worked with different types of business partner, enhancing process, reporting and quality of business and operational management.
• You have a solid understanding of HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management tracking, and employee attribute data.
• You are experienced in review, flowcharting, improvement and automation of processes in a Human Resources context.
• You will have technical expertise in system set up, customisation and trouble shooting.
• You will be able to demonstrate proficiency in data analysis and reporting, using tools such as excel; you will likely be familiar with some of (although you may not be expert in all of them) a variety of packages, for example, Microsoft Power BI, Report Builder and custom report tools built into our specialist software packages.
• Data will be sourced by using API’s, SQL database gateways, Sharepoint lists, oData Feeds and spreadsheets.

You are a disrupter. You question. You challenge. You improve outcomes. 

Contract details:

• The role is offered up to circa £40 - £43,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Eligible to join Local Government Pension Scheme, for which employer contribution is 22.9%.
• 25 days annual leave entitlement, (rising by 3, 1, 1, 1 after 5,10,15,20 years’ service), plus bank holidays
• Permanent full time role, 37 hours per week contracted hours.
• The role is available on a super-hybrid remote basis (UK based), working 100% from home, or the office or a hybrid of the two.