British CouncilHiring for Data Analyst and Technical Specialist at Noida, Uttar Pradesh Full Time

Location: Noida, South Asia, IN

Company: British Council

The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language.

We work in two ways – directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and the best of the world with the UK.

These connections lead to an understanding of each other’s strengths and of the challenges and values that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including online and through our broadcasts and publications.

Job Title: Data Analyst and Technical Specialist

Purpose of job:
To provide global level BAU and transformation internal and external HR reporting, managing the myHR report centre, resolving myHR reporting technical issues and building technical solutions to collect, analyse, interpret and share all types of HR and people data.

Experience areas:
The People Insights Team designs and manages people data products to deliver measurable business value. It is global in nature and supports all SBUs. It is part of the Organisational Effectiveness Team. The team has five key functions:

Scope and Design

Build and Maintain (myHR data dashboards and reports, data collection and automation)

Insight Analysis (statistical analysis)

Implement

Assess

The Data Analyst and Technical Specialist works on Build and Maintain and Insight Analysis. The produce all reports from myHR, build dashboards in powerbi, develop automation approaches for all datasets, create data collection tools in powerapps and build statistical analysis models in excel

Knowledge of:
Essential

Proven experience of creating insightful reports from HR datasets, forecasting trends in HR data and developing solutions to present data to identify potential business value.

Proven experience of statistical analysis of HR data such as hypothesis testing, regression and probability analysis.

Proven experience of designing and implementing a range of primary data collection tools and mapping data journeys and simplifying the journey to improve efficiency, security and completion.

Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
(including people management and finance)

Accountabilities:
Reporting and statistical analysis:
Ensuring all agreed internal and external reports are produced to the required standard.

Developing a ‘user-friendly’ data collection and sharing approach that produces clean and structured myHR data for all powerbi dashboards

Managing the data collection process from developing the initial templates, producing user guidance and responding to user queries about the process.

Developing and maintaining a technical approach to collecting the HR data from outside myHR processing the data so that it is structured and cleansed to be able to report from

Developing report templates and producing reports to be distributed to relevant HR leads across the organisation

Developing statiscal approaches to drive insight into HR data with business benefit in response to specific requests

Dashboard Management and Development

Manage the data sets behind all dashboards which includes but is not limited to:

Develop and maintain a complex excel spreadsheet incorporating multiple data sources, pivot tables and charts that is the source data for a monthly ‘HR dashboard’

Dashboards for all staff and a number of business units need to be produced and distributed every month

As well as the monthly dashboards, various year to date HR metrics need to be tracked on a monthly basis and then incorporated into a year-end report and dashboard

Technical Solutions

Using their technical and data expertise, to be a contributing member of the HR data standards and master data management project which includes but is not limited to:

Working closely with colleagues both within and outside the team to build a data map of all HR data across the British Council

To document all current and future data reporting needs and to define what kind of data architecture and standards will be needed to produce these reports in the most efficient (preferable automated) way

To contribute to developing an ‘HR data dictionary’ of data definitions and data structure that meet corporate data standards and which in turn will be used to develop the HR systems specification

Gathering existing people data from across the organisation and analysing it to help develop a master data list and architecture which can then contribute to producing the HR data dictionary.

Develop an approach to cleansing, restructuring and where appropriate integrating core HR data so that it meets the newly defined data standards

Qualifications:
Required:
Graduate

Desirable

Excel Certification, Power BI certification, Power Automate Certification, Power Apps certification

Further Information

Pay Band – 7

Contract Type – FTC 2 years

Department/Country-GM/India – Noida

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with.

We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.

Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

If you have any problems with your application please email askhr@britishcouncil.org

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