Senior HR Analyst, Data Governance

The Sherwin-Williams Company; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Sherwin-Williams Company seeks a Senior HR Data Governance Analyst to ensure the integrity and governance of global HR data. You will collaborate across HR, HR IT, Payroll, Finance, and Compensation to improve data accuracy, processes, and decision-making.

This on-site role at the Hinckley facility in Cleveland requires strong data governance, analytics, and stakeholder engagement to reduce risk and drive sustainable improvements in HR data management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in HR data governance, HR operations, HR systems, workforce data, business analysis, reporting, or compliance.
• Experience investigating data, system or operational issues and performing root cause analysis.
• Experience translating complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Experience leading projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Experience developing governance documentation, rules, controls, and data definitions.
• Experience with HR data changes, security governance, or mass data transactions.
• Proficiency with Excel for large data sets and data validation.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Govern HR data governance and manage complex transactions and data changes.
• Identify data quality, compliance, and operational risks and implement corrective actions.
• Develop governance frameworks, SOPs, data definitions, and training materials.
• Lead governance discussions and coordinate with HR, HR IT, Payroll, Finance, and Compensation.
• Produce reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor data quality and risks.
• Support audits, compliance reviews, and remediation efforts.
• Educate stakeholders on data requirements and governance best practices.

Skills

HR data governance

Data quality

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Root cause analysis

Governance documentation

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, HR, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Accounting, Statistics, Computer Science, or Finance

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel

ServiceNow

Job description

The Senior HR Data Governance Analyst supports the integrity, consistency, and effective governance of global HR data. This role evaluates complex workforce data transactions, identifies and resolves data quality and control issues, develops governance standards and documentation, and partners across HR, HR IT, Payroll, Finance, and Compensation to reduce risk and improve HR data accuracy, processes, and decision-making.

This role is not hybrid/remote and will report to Sherwin-Williams Hinckley Industrial Parkway located at 4770 Hinckley Industrial Pkwy, Cleveland, OH 44109.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

1. HR Data Governance and Complex Transaction Support

   1. Review and process complex workforce data transactions, requests, and escalations, including organizational changes, mass updates, security access requests, and other high impact changes.

   2. Evaluate requests for completeness, accuracy, required approvals, effective dating, business-rule alignment, and potential downstream impact.

   3. Validate source file data, data mappings, approvals, effective dates, control requirements, and system results before and after complex transactions are processed.

   4. Identify data quality, compliance, security, or operational risks and determine appropriate corrective action or escalation.

   5. Support established governance processes that promote the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of HR data and organizational structures, including jobs, locations, departments, cost centers, business units, and related workforce data.

2. Data Analysis, Issue Resolution & Continuous Improvement

   1. Define issues, document the current-state impact, and with data-governance expertise, develop fact-based recommendations for review and resolution with appropriate stakeholders.

   2. Validate corrective actions to confirm that the end-to-end issue has been resolved and the recurrence risks are minimized.

   3. Identify recurring trends, risks, control gaps, and process inefficiencies and recommend opportunities for sustainable improvement.

   4. Perform root cause analysis to identify isolated errors or underlying data, process, business-rule, training, integration, governance, or system issues.

   5. Investigate complex HR data, transaction, and operational issues by analyzing data, reviewing transaction history, and evaluating business rules and system requirements.

   6. Assess the potential financial, payroll, compliance, security, employee, reporting, and operational impacts of identified issues.

3. Stakeholder Partnership & Governance Documentation

   1. Develop and maintain business rules, standard operating procedures, governance frameworks, process maps, control documentation, decision logs, data definitions, and training materials.

   2. Serve as a subject-matter resource for HR data-governance standards, complex organizational data, business rules, access controls, and related transaction requirements.

   3. Lead governance discussions and working sessions by defining issues, presenting analysis, facilitating decisions, documenting outcomes, and driving follow-through.

   4. Advise HR Shared Services, HR IT, Payroll, Finance, Compensation, HR Business Partners, and other stakeholders on data standards, control requirements, exceptions, and downstream risks.

   5. Educate stakeholders on request requirements, governance expectations, effective-dating practices, data dependencies, and common error-prevention techniques.

   6. Independently manage multiple complex priorities, identify risks and dependencies, and provide clear status reporting through completion.

   7. Support data audits, compliance, and control-review activities by producing documentation, explaining governance practices, and coordinating remediation of identified findings.

   8. Influence cross-functional partners to resolve data-quality issues, strengthen controls, clarify ownership, and adopt sustainable governance practices.

4. Reporting, Metrics and Business Insights

   1. Analyze results to identify patterns, emerging risks, control gaps, performance drivers, and opportunities requiring management attention.

   2. Translate complex data into clear business insights, impact assessments, and actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

   3. Execute complex ad hoc analyses that require combining multiple data sources, resolving inconsistencies, and interpreting incomplete or conflicting information.

   4. Establish and document metric definitions, calculation logic, data sources, validation procedures, and reporting controls to promote consistency and reliability.

   5. Independently validate source data, report logic, calculations, and business-rule alignment before findings are communicated or used to support decisions.

   6. Identify opportunities to implement governance metrics, dashboards, and recurring reports that measure HR data quality, transaction accuracy, exception volume, timeliness, rework, and recurring issue trends.

   7. Partner with regional SBS Employee Services teams and functional stakeholders to standardize governance metrics and strengthen enterprise-wide visibility into data quality and operational risk.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Human Resources, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Accounting, Statistics, Computer Science, or Finance.

• 3+ years of experience in HR data governance, HR operations, HR systems, workforce data, business analysis, reporting, or compliance

• Experience investigating data, system or operational issues, performing root cause analysis, and developing fact-based recommendations.

• Experience analyzing large or complex datasets and translating findings into actionable business insights, risk assessments, or corrective actions.

• Experience leading projects or assignments involving multiple stakeholders, dependencies, competing priorities and downstream impacts.

• Experience developing or maintaining governance documentation, business rules, controls, procedures, data definitions, or decision documentation.

• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation, and analysis of large datasets.
• Experience utilizing reporting, dashboard, or data-visualization tools to analyze data and communicate finding.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future for employment visa status
• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age

Preferred:

• Experience supporting HCM platforms, HR Cloud environments, organizational structures, security governance, access management, mass data transactions, or high-volume employee or HR data changes.

• Experience supporting audits, control reviews, compliance assessments, or data-quality remediation.

• Experience utilizing data visualization, advanced reporting, workflow automation, or analytical tools to improve decision-making or operational effectiveness.

• Experience supporting process improvement, corrective-action, or continuous improvement initiatives based on data-governance findings or analytics. Experience partnering across HR Shared Services, HR IT, Payroll, Finance, Compensation, Talent or HR Business Partner functions.

• Experience with HR Cloud or other HCM platforms, security or access governance, mass data transactions, workflow tools, or automation technologies.
• Experience with case management tools such as ServiceNow.
• Experience with reporting and analytical tools such as Power BI, SQL, etc.

Travel: 10%