People Analytics Senior Manager

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

The People Analytics Senior Manager role encompassesowningand driving the People Analytics strategy atBDO andmanagement of the People Analytics team (3 Analysts). Therole will include working closely with stakeholders both in HRand the wider business including the Central Data Office, Finance, IT,Leadership Team and Partnership Office to develop, prioritise and implementproject plans to deliver the people analytics strategy. This is arole that will also draw on your technical experience in orderto design best in class analytical solutions using a wide range ofsoftware and tools.

While a number of People Analytics solutions are already in place, we are looking for someone who can review thecurrent offerings and make bold steps in how we can change/adapt our approach to embed the importance ofPeople Analytics and find new and better ways to ensure it is central to HR decision making. Achieving this willinvolve strong stakeholder managementand ownership of data literacy upskilling across HR.

A knowledge of Workday reporting (including Slides, Sheets, PRISM & Discovery Boards) is essential although aworking knowledge or experience in other analytical tools (such as Excel &PowerBI) would also be advantageous.The role will involve managing and prioritising incoming ideas and requests; challenging and influencing thinkinginorder toachieve optimum outcomes. It will also draw on your own thought leadership and ideas and see you findingnew and innovative ways of using people datatosupport firm and HR strategy.

In this role you’ll also:

• Continue and enhance the People Analytics Strategy
• Project manage key projects for the team, including scope management, resource planning andstakeholder management
• Bring the best external thinking and connect these developments and ideas to helpsupport firm and HRstrategy
• Provide value adding analysis and commentary derived from key metrics, to highlight what is happening withour people around the firm and to inform future peoplestrategies.
• Motivate, manage and develop a team of 3 analysts, ensuring their work output finds the right balance betweendelivering against firm needs and contributing to individual careerprogression
• Ensure that data is kept securely in line with the Firm’s Data Policy andinlinewith GDPR.

At BDO, we use the full suite of Workday reporting tools; standardreporting and dashboards, slides, worksheets, discovery boards andPRISM. Having strong knowledge of the various tools and when bestto use which, is key to this role.

We use a wide range of reporting tools and techniques because atBDO, we are ‘full suite’ Workday users. As such, an appreciation ofhow Workday HCM operates would be helpful (for us this includesrecruitment, learning, peakon, talent & performance andreward/comp). Understanding how security works across Workday isessential to ensure access to data and analytical solutions areappropriate for our people. Additionally, it would be a useful to havea knowledge of Workday integrations and Workday Finance as wellexperience with tools such asPowerBI.

The People Analytics team do not just build and deploy reportingsolutions. A pre-requisite for this role is the ability to interpret data,identify trends and draw meaningful conclusions (and coach others inhow to do this). Keeping abreast of evolving people analytics theoryand its practical application would be expected.

You’ll also be someone with:

• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Strategy and planning experience, with adaptability(knowledge of agile methodology helpful)
• The ability to communicate with authorityandinfluence
• Creativity in design and solutioning
• Integrity and a good knowledge of GDPR & datasecurity
• Coaching skills

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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