HR Analytics & Reporting Specialist

City of South Fulton; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

City of South Fulton is seeking an HR Analyst to provide analytical, technical, and operational support to the Human Resources Department. You will prepare HR reports, maintain position control, and assist with HR system implementations to drive staffing, compliance, and workforce planning.

You will collaborate with Finance, Payroll, and department leaders to ensure data accuracy for employee records, payroll, and budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Public Administration, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Finance, or related field required.
• Minimum of five years of human resources experience required.
• Experience creating reports using ERP systems, payroll systems, ADP, HRIS platforms, Microsoft Excel, and other data reporting tools required.
• Experience working with payroll platforms, including ADP, required.
• Public sector, city government, county government, or municipal HR experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collects, reviews, and analyzes HR data related to staffing, vacancies, turnover, compensation, recruitment, performance evaluations, training, payroll, and workforce trends.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual HR reports, dashboards, charts, summaries, and workforce metrics to support HR leadership and department decision-making.
• Ensures HR reports are accurate, timely, confidential, and useful for planning, compliance, and operational needs.
• Maintains position control records to ensure authorized positions, filled positions, vacancies, frozen positions, funding sources, job titles, departments, salary grades, FLSA status, and reporting structures are accurate.
• Tracks new positions, eliminated positions, reclassifications, transfers, promotions, separations, and vacancies.
• Prepares position control reports, staffing reports, vacancy reports, salary reports, and workforce reports for HR, Finance, Payroll, and department leadership.
• Works with Finance and Payroll to support position reports, salary projections, budget reports, personnel cost reports, payroll data, and workforce-related financial information.
• Supports HR budget preparation by gathering staffing data, salary information, vacancy information, training expenses, position control data, and departmental expense information.
• Assists with aligning HR data with approved staffing levels, payroll information, and budgeted positions.
• Creates and maintains reports using ERP systems, payroll platforms, ADP, HRIS systems, Microsoft Excel, and other reporting tools.
• Extracts, reviews, and analyzes payroll and workforce data to support HR operations, reporting, compliance, and decision-making.
• Supports data accuracy and confidentiality when preparing and distributing reports.
• Tracks recruitment activity, job postings, applicant flow, time-to-fill, onboarding progress, vacancies, and staffing needs.
• Analyzes recruitment and workforce trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Supports workforce planning by tracking staffing levels, vacancies, turnover, succession needs, retirements, and hard-to-fill positions.
• Assists with job classification reviews, salary surveys, job description updates, position audits, and compensation studies.
• Reviews job duties, salary ranges, pay grades, organizational structures, and market data to support classification and compensation recommendations.
• Supports compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, City policies, civil service rules, union agreements, and internal HR procedures.
• Assists with HR audits, records management, policy updates, compliance tracking, and documentation.
• Maintains confidential employee records and ensures HR data is accurate and complete.
• Assists with tracking employee relations matters, disciplinary actions, grievances, investigations, performance concerns, and corrective action trends.
• Monitors completion of performance evaluations, probationary reviews, merit reviews, and employee development plans.
• Prepares reports identifying overdue evaluations, completion rates, and performance-related trends.
• Supports HR system implementation, upgrades, testing, data validation, workflow review, report development, user training, and process improvement.
• Works with HR, Finance, Payroll, IT, and vendors to ensure system data, workflows, and reporting needs are properly developed and maintained.
• Assists with special HR projects, department improvements, HR audits, employee engagement surveys, training initiatives, position control clean-up, and organizational updates.
• Tracks employee training compliance.
• Prepares recruitment, vacancy, turnover, staffing, payroll, and position control reports.
• Supports employee engagement surveys and action planning.
• Monitors EEO, diversity, and workforce demographic data.
• Supports public records requests related to HR information.
• Coordinates data for audits, accreditation, compliance reviews, and internal reporting.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

HR data analysis

Excel

HRIS

ADP

Payroll reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/Business/Data Analytics

Tools

ADP

ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Job description

City of South Fulton is seeking an HR Analyst to provide analytical, technical, and operational support to the Human Resources Department. You will prepare HR reports, maintain position control, and assist with HR system implementations to drive staffing, compliance, and workforce planning.

You will collaborate with Finance, Payroll, and department leaders to ensure data accuracy for employee records, payroll, and budgets.