HR Systems & Analytics Specialist (Hybrid – London)

Site; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension 28.9%

Job summary

The National Audit Office is seeking an HR Systems and Business Analyst to help shape the future of HR operations in London. You will join a small HRIS team and work with HR and Digital Services to translate business needs into effective process, data, and system solutions.

You will lead analytics and reporting using Power BI and Excel, ensuring data quality, governance, and insightful dashboards that inform workforce planning and AI-related strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in HR, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Industrial/Organisational Psychology, Statistics, or related field.
• Relevant experience in HR analytics, business analysis, or related analytical role.
• Demonstrated experience with business process mapping, analysis, and improvement.
• An understanding of the employee lifecycle and HR functions.
• Proven track record of performing data analysis and creating impactful visualisations and reports.
• Experience working with HRIS platforms and knowledge of key vendors.
• Power BI: Proficiency in building dashboards, data modelling and creating interactive visualisations.
• Microsoft Excel: Expert-level skills including advanced formulas, pivot tables, data analysis, and statistical functions.
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to identify patterns, draw insights, and make data-driven recommendations.
• Critical thinking skills to diagnose business problems and develop creative solutions.
• Ability to connect people data to business outcomes and strategic objectives.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives.
• Strong presentation skills with ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Familiarity with data privacy regulations and ethical use of People data.

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis and Process Optimisation: Consult with HR business partners and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements.
• Map, document, and analyse current-state HR processes across the employee lifecycle, including talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, learning and development, and employee experience.
• Identify process inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and gaps through data analysis and stakeholder consultation.
• Proactively identify high value use cases and co-create action plans and practical solutions based on analysis, data and relationships.
• Design, recommend and implement future-state processes that align with business goals and enhance operational efficiency.
• Develop workflow diagrams, standard operating procedures and other documentation required to embed agreed processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including IT, Finance, and business leaders to ensure alignment and integration of HR processes with broader organisational systems.
• People Analytics and Reporting: Use people analytics to answer strategic business questions, improve business outcomes and inform strategic workforce and organisational decisions, drawing on Power BI, Excel and HRIS data to identify workforce trends, risks and drivers.
• Extract, integrate, manipulate and analyse data from the HRIS and other sources, assessing analytics technology to enable deeper insight and inform investments.
• Translate and present complex findings as clear, compelling narratives and practical recommendations linking insights to action.
• Expand access to high-quality workforce data and insights, including dashboards and visualisations, enabling HR and leaders to explore relationships between workforce factors and performance.
• Build people analytics capability within HR, strengthening partnership, consulting and insight-generation skills and fostering a data-driven culture.
• Identify opportunities to leverage HRIS functionality to strengthen data collection and quality, automate HR processes and improve user experience.

Skills

HR analytics

Business analysis

Process mapping

Data storytelling

Power BI

Excel

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Data privacy

Dashboard design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

The National Audit Office is seeking an HR Systems and Business Analyst to help shape the future of HR operations in London. You will join a small HRIS team and work with HR and Digital Services to translate business needs into effective process, data, and system solutions.

You will lead analytics and reporting using Power BI and Excel, ensuring data quality, governance, and insightful dashboards that inform workforce planning and AI-related strategies.