People HRIS Data & Analytics Manager (Contract)

Iterative Health; New York (NY); Remote; USD 103,000 - 131,000; Part time

Job summary

Iterative Health is seeking an HRIS & People Analytics Contractor to clean and govern employee data, establishing BambooHR as the source of truth and building actionable HR dashboards. The role blends data governance with analytics, enabling better workforce decisions across payroll, onboarding, and reporting.

This project-based engagement is 20–30 hours per week for 2–3 months, with an hourly rate of $75–$95 and remote work. The ideal candidate has strong HRIS expertise and AI-enabled analytics.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in HRIS administration, HR systems consulting, People Analytics, or related field.
• Experience auditing, cleaning, reconciling, and standardizing employee data across multiple HR systems.
• Experience administering or supporting HRIS platforms, including BambooHR.
• Strong reporting and analytical skills.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency and workflows in HRIS analytics.
• Experience building dashboards and recurring HR reports.
• Experience standardizing HR data and governance.
• Strong understanding of core HR data and metrics (headcount, turnover, etc.).
• Ability to independently manage projects and timelines.
• Excellent attention to detail and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Audit, clean, and reconcile current and former employee data across HRIS and related systems.
• Establish a primary source of truth for employee data and support migration to new HCM.
• Identify discrepancies, duplicates, and inconsistencies across HRIS, payroll, and recruiting systems.
• Standardize records: titles, departments, locations, reporting lines, classifications.
• Review and cleanse termination reasons and change reasons for reporting.
• Establish data validation practices, documentation, and repeatable processes.
• Document data issues, remediation, dependencies, and governance recommendations.
• Develop and enhance HR dashboards and standardized reports.
• Automate recurring reports and reduce manual data handling.
• Leverage AI tools to streamline HRIS analytics and reporting.

Skills

HRIS administration

People Analytics

Data cleaning

Data governance

Reporting

AI for HR

Project management

Communication

Tools

BambooHR

Power BI

Excel

Job description

New York City, NY

Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes.

We built a leading performance-driven network of 100+ sites across the US, Europe, India, and Australia, conducting research directly in the communities where care is delivered across gastrointestinal, hepatology, obesity, and cardiology. By combining deep clinical trial expertise with cutting-edge AI, we connect sponsors' scientific ambitions with high-performing research teams that expedite and expand access to novel therapeutics for patients in need. Today, Iterative Health is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City with 250+ employees world-wide.

The HRIS & People Analytics Contractor will partner closely with the Head of People Operations team to improve the accuracy, consistency, and usability of employee data across our HR systems. This individual will take ownership of data cleanup and reconciliation efforts, establishing BambooHR as our primary source of truth for employee data, and develop reliable reporting and analytics to support business decisions.

In addition to HRIS data management and analytics, the consultant will support upcoming system and process enhancements, including preparation for 2027 organizational enhancements in payroll, job architecture, and improvements to preboarding and onboarding workflows and moving to a new HCM.

This is a hands-on, project-based engagement for someone who can independently assess existing systems, identify gaps, execute solutions, and recommend improvements. The ideal candidate combines strong HRIS expertise with analytical capabilities, technical proficiency, and a process-oriented mindset.

Hours: 20–30 hours per week - 2-3 months project
Hourly Rate: $75–$95 per hour
Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities

HRIS Data Integrity & Governance

• Audit, clean, standardize, and reconcile current and former employee data across existing HRIS platforms and related systems.
• Establish a primary source of truth for employee data, ensuring records are accurate, complete, consistent, and structured to support current reporting needs and future system migration.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies, duplicate records, missing information, and inconsistencies across HRIS, payroll, and recruiting systems.
• Standardize employee records, including job titles, departments, locations, reporting relationships, employment classifications, and other key data fields.
• Review and clean up termination reasons, employee change reasons, and other historical data used for workforce reporting and analytics.
• Establish data validation practices, documentation, and repeatable processes to maintain data integrity over time.
• Document data issues, remediation efforts, system dependencies, and recommendations for ongoing data governance.

HR Reporting & People Analytics

• Develop and enhance reporting dashboards and standardized reports using HRIS and ATS data.
• Partner with the People team to understand current and anticipated reporting needs and translate them into practical, actionable dashboards.
• Develop reporting capabilities for key workforce metrics, including headcount, employee movement, turnover, recruiting activity, time to fill, and other People KPIs.
• Automate recurring reports and reduce manual data extraction, spreadsheet manipulation, and cross-system reconciliation wherever feasible.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to streamline HRIS data cleanup and analytics, automate reporting, identify data discrepancies, and improve People Analytics workflows and operational efficiency.
• Support additional People team projects and operational priorities as needed during the engagement.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, scalability, and consistency of People processes.
• Provide recommendations for prioritizing outstanding HRIS and analytics work based on business needs and project dependencies.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in HRIS administration, HR systems consulting, People Analytics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience auditing, cleaning, reconciling, and standardizing employee data across multiple HR systems.
• Experience administering or supporting HRIS platforms, ideally including BambooHR.
• Strong reporting and analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and capabilities to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and deliver high-quality results.
• Demonstrated ability to build, maintain, and improve dashboards and recurring HR reports.
• Experience standardizing HR data, developing reporting definitions, and improving data quality and governance.
• Strong understanding of core HR data and metrics, including headcount, employee movement, terminations, turnover, and recruiting performance.
• Ability to independently manage projects, prioritize competing requests, troubleshoot issues, and deliver against defined timelines.
• Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical and data-related issues to nontechnical stakeholders.

New York pay range

$75 - $95 USD

At Iterative Health, we’re actively working towards creating an environment that is representative of the diversity of patients our technology serves. We are focused on building an equitable and inclusive culture, and by extension, hiring process. If you require any accommodations to make the application process or interviewing experience more accessible to you, please contact [e-mail].

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Iterative Health (the “Company”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to actual and/or perceived: race; color; national origin; religion; age; sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions); gender identity or expression (including transgender status); affectional or sexual orientation; disability (mental and physical); atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait or genetic information (including family medical history); uniform service member and veteran status; participation in legally protected conduct or making a complaint relating to unlawful conduct; and any other characteristic or conduct protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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