People Analytics & Reward Analyst - Hybrid (Manchester)

OFG Education; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance

Pension scheme with flexible contrib

Your Wellbeing Matters

Family Growth Support

Flexible benefits via Vista

Job summary

OFG Education in Manchester is seeking a People Analytics and Reward Analyst to turn data into clear, actionable insight for workforce planning and reward decisions. This hands-on role focuses on cleansing data and delivering dashboards across PeopleXD, Payroll and Finance.

Working in a hybrid setup (2 days in the office) with 37.5 hours per week and a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, the role offers a salary of £45,000–£50,000 per year depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in people analytics, reward, workforce planning, finance or another analytical role, with evidence of applying analysis to practical business decisions.
• Strong Excel skills, including manipulating and reconciling substantial datasets and building financial or workforce models.
• Ability to interpret complex data, identify trends and explain findings and recommendations clearly to non-specialist stakeholders.
• Experience improving data quality, investigating discrepancies and maintaining accurate, validated reporting.
• Confidence working with workforce costs or comparable financial data, with strong numerical skills and attention to detail.
• Effective stakeholder skills, including working across teams, challenging assumptions constructively and building agreement.
• Ability to organise competing priorities, deliver analysis to agreed deadlines and handle confidential information appropriately.
• Experience of salary benchmarking, compensation analysis, pay reviews or bonus processes.
• Experience of, or an interest in, job evaluation and levelling.
• Knowledge of benefits and pensions data, costs, participation or reconciliation.
• Experience using HR information systems and BI or reporting tools (such as Power BI).
• Experience in a multi-site, acquisitive or international organisation, or supporting workforce integration.
• No specific professional qualification is required; demonstrate analytical capability.

Responsibilities

• People data and insight: Cleanse, reconcile and align employee data across Systems, analyse data quality and provide insights.
• Reward, benefits and pensions: Provide salary benchmarking and total reward analysis to support pay decisions.
• Workforce planning and Finance partnership: Model financial impact of pay and benefits changes for budgets and forecasts.
• Data governance and continuous improvement: Maintain reliable data processes, document definitions and modelling assumptions.

Skills

People analytics

Reward analysis

Workforce planning

Excel

Power BI

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Data interpretation

Tools

Power BI

Job description

OFG Education in Manchester is seeking a People Analytics and Reward Analyst to turn data into clear, actionable insight for workforce planning and reward decisions. This hands-on role focuses on cleansing data and delivering dashboards across PeopleXD, Payroll and Finance.

Working in a hybrid setup (2 days in the office) with 37.5 hours per week and a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, the role offers a salary of £45,000–£50,000 per year depending on experience.