Assistant Manager - HR Analytics
AlFuttaim
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Job summary
Al‑Futtaim invites a data-driven HR Analytics professional to join its Dubai Real Estate HR team. The role focuses on strengthening workforce analytics, manpower cost reporting, dashboard development, and HR automation.
You will deliver insights to HRBPs, Finance, and senior leaders, turning workforce data into practical decisions. You will build HR dashboards, support budgeting and forecasting, and promote adoption of analytics across HR functions with Power BI, SAP tools, and Python-based
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in analytics, statistics, CS, MIS, HR, or related field.
- 3-5 years in analytics, HR analytics, or BI reporting.
- Strong HR metrics knowledge: manpower cost planning, lifecycle reporting, and workforce analytics.
- Advanced Power BI and Excel skills; familiarity with SAP tools is preferred.
- Ability to translate data into actionable insights for HRBPs and senior leaders.
Responsibilities
- Support manpower cost planning, budgeting, forecasting and reviews.
- Analyze workforce data to help HR and Finance understand cost movements.
- Maintain HR data in SAP Analytics Cloud and promote adoption by users.
- Provide guidance and support for reporting tools and processes.
- Design and maintain HR dashboards and self-service reports across the employee lifecycle.
- Create headcount, attrition, compensation, and workforce trend views.
- Promote dashboard usage and ensure clarity and reliability of reports.
- Automate recurring HR reporting and reporting processes using Power BI and Power Automate.
- Assist in AI-enabled HR workflows and executive reporting.
- Prepare executive-level reporting packs with findings, assumptions, and risks.
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Job description
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Real Estate
Function: Human Resources
Experience: 3-5 years in HR analytics, workforce reporting, BI, or people data analysis
Job Type: Full-time
Assistant Manager - HR Analytics in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a Real Estate hiring opportunity for a data‑driven HR professional who can strengthen workforce analytics, manpower cost reporting, dashboard development, and HR automation. The role supports the Real Estate HR function by turning employee, cost, planning, and performance data into practical insights for HR Business Partners, Finance teams, department heads, and senior leaders.
- Support manpower cost planning, annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and periodic reviews against actual workforce cost data.
- Analyze in‑house and outsourced employee populations to help HR and Finance teams understand workforce cost movement.
- Maintain accurate HR data in SAP Analytics Cloud and support consistent adoption by HR Business Partners and Finance users.
- Provide guidance, troubleshooting, and user support for reporting tools, planning systems, and manpower cost processes.
- Design, develop, and maintain HR dashboards, scorecards, and self‑service reporting solutions across the employee lifecycle.
- Build practical reporting views for headcount, workforce movement, manpower cost, attrition, hiring, compensation, and organizational trends.
- Promote dashboard usage among HR and business stakeholders by ensuring reports are clear, reliable, and easy to interpret.
- Automate recurring HR reporting and operational processes using Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, and related Microsoft tools.
- Support the development of AI‑enabled workflows and agents that improve HR service efficiency and reduce manual reporting effort.
- Prepare executive‑level reporting packs with clear findings, assumptions, commentary, risks, and recommendations.
- Present complex HR data in a simple and visual format for both in‑person and digital stakeholder discussions.
- Manage monthly Total Rewards case cycles and support compensation, incentive, and reward‑related analytics.
- Validate compensation data, identify inconsistencies, and support process improvements with HRBPs and Group Total Rewards teams.
- Conduct deep‑dive analysis to solve workforce and business problems using structured data analysis methods.
- Translate business questions into measurable HR analytics outputs that support planning, productivity, and cost decisions.
- Act as a trusted analytics partner for HRBPs, Finance, department heads, and business leaders.
- Deliver timely ad‑hoc reports, workforce insights, scenario analysis, and data‑backed recommendations.
- Maintain data governance discipline by checking accuracy, consistency, definitions, and reporting logic across HR datasets.
- Use Python, BI tools, and analytics techniques to identify trends, exceptions, and opportunities within workforce data.
- Contribute to group‑level HR analytics initiatives and support the wider reporting and automation agenda.
- Bachelor's Degree in Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, MIS, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
- 3-5 years of experience as an analytics specialist, HR analyst, workforce analytics professional, or BI reporting specialist.
- Strong understanding of HR metrics, manpower cost planning, workforce analytics, and employee lifecycle reporting.
- Advanced proficiency in Power BI and Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Analytics Cloud is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of Tableau or similar BI tools is an advantage.
- Experience automating workflows using Power Automate, SharePoint, Copilot Studio, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis, data cleaning, automation, or machine learning use cases.
- Ability to work with HR, workforce, compensation, and manpower cost datasets.
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to investigate complex business questions and recommend practical solutions.
- Excellent data storytelling skills with the ability to prepare senior‑level presentations and reporting packs.
- Good stakeholder management skills, especially when working with HRBPs, Finance, Total Rewards, and department leaders.
- Strong attention to data accuracy, reporting consistency, confidentiality, and process discipline.
- Comfortable working under pressure while managing recurring deadlines, ad‑hoc requests, and multiple reporting cycles.
- Ability to encourage user adoption of dashboards, automation tools, and self‑service reporting solutions.
- HR analytics
- Workforce analytics
- Manpower cost planning
- HR reporting
- HR dashboards
- Power BI
- Microsoft Excel
- SAP SuccessFactors
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- Tableau
- Power Automate
- SharePoint
- Copilot Studio
- Python
- Data analysis
- Machine learning basics
- Workforce cost forecasting
- Budget reporting
- Headcount analysis
- Attrition reporting
- Employee lifecycle analytics
- Total Rewards analytics
- Compensation analysis
- Incentive data validation
- Dashboard automationSelf‑service reporting
- Data storytelling
- Executive reporting
- Data visualization
- HR data governance
- Business partnering
- Process automation
- AI‑enabled HR solutions
- Stakeholder management
- Presentation skills
This role offers the chance to work at the center of HR transformation within Dubai's Real Estate sector, where workforce planning, analytics, automation, and data quality directly support major business decisions. It is a strong opportunity for an HR analytics professional who wants to move beyond reporting and influence manpower cost planning, Total Rewards analysis, dashboard adoption, and AI‑enabled HR process improvement. The position provides exposure to senior stakeholders, complex workforce datasets, digital HR systems, and a large real estate portfolio with long‑term regional growth.
Al‑Futtaim is a diversified business group headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with operations across automotive, financial services, real estate, retail, and healthcare. Al‑Futtaim Group Real Estate manages a major property portfolio across the MENA region, covering residential, commercial, retail, tourism, education, and healthcare developments. The business supports large‑scale destinations and mixed‑use communities through development, leasing, operations, asset management, and long‑term investment in places designed for people to live, work, and connect.
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