Working independently and requiring the regular use of independent judgment, the primary focus of the HR Analyst role is the assessment, planning, implementation, evolution and support of al HR application and automated workflow processes. This role serves as technical point-of-contact and subject matter expert for all HR related systems, including ensuring data integrity, testing of system changes, report writing and analyzing data flows for HR business processes that drive the day-to-day responsibilities.
The HR analyst also collects, compiles, and analyzes HR data, metrics, and statistics, and apply this data to make recommendations related to retention, recruitment, and compliance.
Desired Education or Certifications Criteria
- Highschool diploma and three years of HRIS, Payroll or HR Generalist experience required.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Project management experience preferred.
- Experience with ADP HRIS system preferred.
- High level of Excel proficiency required.
Responsibilities / Functional Job Description
- Focus on manual process elimination in the HR workflow. Where processes cannot be automated, strives for process improvement and greater efficiency.
- Ensures all HRIS processes and workflows are accurately documented.
- Collects and compiles HR metrics and data from a variety of sources including the human resource information system (HRIS), management and employee surveys, exit interviews, employment records, government labor statistics, and other sources.
- Analyzes data and statistics for trends and patterns with attention to recruitment, hiring practices, turnover, and compliance with employment laws and regulations.
- Prepares reports of data results, presenting and explaining findings to HR leadership.
- Based on metrics and analysis, makes recommendations, and develops solutions, programs and policies to improve HR’s contribution to the organization’s goals and legal compliance.
- Completes compliance related activities such as annual EEO-1 and UDS reporting, the set up and tracking of performance reviews, etc.
- May conduct or assist with conducting classification audits to ensure that jobs are properly classified as exempt or nonexempt.
- Ensures compliance with data privacy regulations and best practices.
- Collaborates and aligns business requirements with HR systems including working cross-functionally with other teams such as Finance and IT.
- Effectively trains end users in use of HR related software applications.
- May assist with performance, benefit, and compensation review and evaluation processes.
- Maintain a high level of business acumen about healthcare operations and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) organizations.
- Participates in special projects for HR as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Desired Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Thorough understanding of local, state, and federal laws involving employment, HR, and HR policies.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software, expert knowledge of Excel.
- Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS, payroll, and similar employee management software.
- Action oriented and positively embraces challenges; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes opportunities.
- Functional/technical skills: had developed functional and technical knowledge and skills to effectively understand and administer system.
- Organizational Skills: Ability to coordinate resources (people, funding, material, support) to accomplish tasks, can orchestrate multiple activities simultaneously to accomplish goals, uses resources effectively and efficiently, arranges information and files in a useful manner.
- Conflict management: Treats conflicts as opportunities, reads situations quickly, practices focused listening, can settle disputes equitably and identify common ground to gain cooperation.
- Adheres to an appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times, acts in line with those values, rewards the right values and disapproves of others, practices what he/she preaches.
- Uses time effectively and efficiently and has the ability to plan, organize and prioritize tasks enabling the individual to accomplish more in less time.
- Learns quickly when facing new problems, a relentless and versatile learner, open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement, experiments and will try anything to find solutions, enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Able to maintain focus on desired outcome and results that are aligned with organizational goals.
- Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems and identify effective solutions and has the ability to perform root cause analysis.
- Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully, is constantly and consistently one of the top performers, very bottom-lime oriented, steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probes all fruitful sources for answers, can see hidden problems, is excellent at honest analysis, looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
