Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

The HR Business Intelligence Specialist will have targeted ownership of data integration, reporting, and insight development. This will require involvement in leveraging BI platform to build, enhance or redesign dashboards through custom visualizations. In partnership with our HRIS colleagues, you will be responsible for constructing HR data visualization and creating reports that allow business to understand HR data and address specific needs of the business.

Insights and Analysis

• Develop, implement, and support the usage of data visualization toolkit, configuration, and deployment.
• Design and format BI dashboards and/or presentations by incorporating graphic elements of HR data.
• Build and produce HR Scorecards and presentations across a variety of HR fields (e.g., terminations/turnover, headcount, overtime, etc.).
• Coordinate with HR technology vendors to ensure the Business Intelligence systems are properly set up and the architecture of data and connectivity with other HR systems are in place.
• Provide data insights to stakeholders from an HR data and reporting standpoint. Contribute solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Develop and maintain strong, collaborative, results-oriented working relationships with internal partners.
• Proactively recommend analysis based on requests made that could improve business processes.
• Review metrics to identify trends, anomalies, and points of interest.
• Provide training on dashboards, reports, and the reporting tools.

Baseline and Scheduled Reports

• Deliver upon business reporting requests in a timely fashion across various HR data areas, including, D&I, headcount, turnover, hiring, etc.
• Work with clients to understand the business issue and meet the reporting need(s).
• Partner with HRIS to automate, standardize, schedule, and publish key reports to help the business with data and insights.
• Maintain the library of scheduled reports, adding/deleting/editing items as necessary.
• Build and maintain the Reporting Calendar, detailing occurrences of all reports.
• Build and analyze audit reports to assure HR data is accurate and up to date.
• Continuously research, analyze and improve the existing reports to build process efficiency.

Ad Hoc Reports

• Support and assist internal HR partners such as the Talent Acquisition team, Compensation & Benefits, HRBPs, and HR leaders by providing consolidated management summaries to promote data-based decisions.
• Maintain a catalogue of all ad hoc requests, periodically reviewing requests, analyzing if any requests should be developed as a scheduled report.
• Recommend and convert ad hoc reports to scheduled reports based on frequency of requests.
• Ensure quality of all standard and ad hoc reports published by the team.

qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Human Resources, or related fields.

Experience Required:  

• Minimum 5 years of applicable analysis and/or reporting experience for Human Resources or related field.
• Strong proficiency in business intelligence tools including Tableau, Power BI, or Business Objects is required; proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Workday is preferred. Knowledge of Microsoft Access, Visio, SQL, and Python is a plus.
• Knowledge of information design principles and data visualization methods.
• Knowledge of logical and physical data modeling concepts, including hands-on development of attributes, facts, dimensions, transformations, dynamic dashboards, graphs, scorecards, and statistical reporting.
• Organization skills with high attention to detail and the ability to prioritize multiple projects in an environment with competing and sometimes ambiguous demands.
• Workforce planning and analytics experience preferable, or in an area where the analysis, and interpretation of large volumes of data are combined to build compelling storylines to support key business decisions.
• Serve as a subject matter advisor for HR reporting and analytics with in-depth knowledge and understanding of data, initiatives, metrics, and tools such as Workday Reporting, Workday Prism etc.
• Strong consulting skills including proven ability to build strong working relationships across internal teams.
• Quick learner with a passion to evaluate workflows and tools, and to improve and simplify processes.
• Ability to work in a changing environment with minimum supervision, make independent decisions and work within a team environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex data, analysis, and insights in a clear, executive ready, easy to digest, and actionable way.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong customer-service mindset and hands-on approach to driving process improvement.
• Excellent organization, time management and follow-up skills.
• Willingness to perform hands-on work, including data cleaning, as well as assist in strategic projects.
• Strong work ethic and commitment to high standards of excellence coupled with an enthusiastic approach to one’s work.
• Driven to improve and very receptive to feedback.
• Naturally curious and eager to assume responsibility and demonstrate initiative.
• Discretion and good decision making required.

Reporting Relationships: Lead, HR Reporting & Analytics.