Dow Jones

Senior Analyst, People Insights

Dow Jones$80K — $100K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in HR, analytics, or related fields
  • Proficient in data manipulation and visualization tools (Excel, SQL, Tableau)
  • Strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with stakeholders
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive data
  • Experience in synthesizing complex analyses into actionable insights
  • Understanding of HR functions like recruiting, performance management, and diversity
  • Proactive attitude with adaptability to new technologies

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to address workforce questions through analytical plans
  • Extract and analyze people data to create insightful reports and dashboards
  • Design and maintain standard and custom reports for business needs
  • Perform regular data audits to ensure accuracy and integrity
  • Enhance reporting processes for improved efficiency
  • Support global corporate functions with timely data and report delivery
  • Identify opportunities to advance people analytics functions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
  • Paid Time Off
  • Retirement Plans
  • Comprehensive Insurance Plans
  • Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
  • Education Benefits
  • Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
  • Commuter Transit Program
  • Subscription Discounts
  • Employee Referral Program
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Senior Analyst, People Insights

About the Role

Our People Insights team is seeking a Senior Analyst, People Insights, who will report to the Sr. Manager, People Insights.

You will serve as an active partner across all our HR functions, driving a data-driven approach by generating accurate and timely reports, dashboards, and analytics to facilitate informed and strategic decision making. This is an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented individual with a passion for data analysis and HR, to contribute to the success of our organization. In addition to strong reporting and visualization, excellent communication, and stakeholder management skills, we expect familiarity with People systems, data, and processes.

You Will:

  • Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify priority workforce questions and translate them into clear analytical plans and useful insights.
  • Extract, manipulate, and analyze people's data from multiple sources to create and maintain reports and dashboards that can drive data-based decision making.
  • Design, build, and maintain a variety of reports, including standard, custom and ad-hoc reports to meet business needs.
  • Ensure the accuracy and integrity of data by performing regular data audits and validations to identify and correct any discrepancies.
  • Continuously evaluate and enhance reporting processes to improve efficiency and data accuracy.
  • Support all DJ corporate and business functions globally by providing them with accurate data and reports (ad hoc and recurring) in a timely manner.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to evolve the people analytics function through better tools, methods, and insight generation
  • Present findings through clear, compelling storytelling tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences, using data to influence decisions and action
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations while handling sensitive employee data.

You Have:

  • A strong interest in HR Analytics and People Insights
  • 4+ years of experience in HR, analytics and/or a related area
  • Experience with data manipulation, reporting, and visualization using Microsoft Excel, SQL, Tableau, or other relevant tools
  • Ability to understand or learn people and business needs, propose appropriate data and reporting diagnostics and solutions
  • Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders, as well as work effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and maintain a high level of professionalism
  • A proactive and self-driven attitude with the ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and processes
  • Experience synthesizing complex analyses into clear insights, executive-ready narratives and recommendations for stakeholders
  • Good understanding of the People functions and processes such as recruiting, compensation, benefits, performance management, diversity, engagement, etc.
  • Experience working with People data (e.g., hires, headcount, turnover, performance, diversity metrics) and People systems (e.g., Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle, ADP, etc.)

Preferred:

  • Experience using SQL, R, Python for data extraction & manipulation
  • Familiarity with Workday HCM or similar HRIS tools
  • Experience with ETL tools (e.g. Alteryx, Ascend, etc.) and data pipelines
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving typical data inconsistencies and anomalies (e.g., mismatch in data formats when merging files, missing data, duplicate records, etc.)
  • Experience or strong interest in leveraging AI tools to optimize analytics and automate manual processes

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Our Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

  • Paid Time Off

  • Retirement Plans

  • Comprehensive Insurance Plans

  • Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

  • Education Benefits

  • Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

  • Commuter Transit Program

  • Subscription Discounts

  • Employee Referral Program

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - People

Job Category:

Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: 80,000.00 - 100,000.00

We27re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate27s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world?s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America?s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron?s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.
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