The HR Business Insights (HRBI) team is hiring. We are seeking a Sr. HR Data Analyst. Our team drives data-based decisions to tackle strategic challenges and opportunities at Microsoft. We partner with HR Leaders and Business Leaders to help shape the workforce of the future. Our team advises HR through data-based insights and compelling storytelling to achieve business objectives and people priorities, enables deep insights for the HR partners supporting key people and organization decisions and initiatives, and partners to grow data capability and enable modern data solutions that increase HR’s impact through leveraging data.

The ideal candidate is comfortable in a fast-paced environment and capable of juggling multiple initiatives simultaneously often with short time constraints. They can flex and reprioritize to adjust to changing business conditions. They have a background working with BI tools, developing visualizations and effective story telling using data and insights.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to be their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable analytical approach, and deliver company-wide insights using data, visualizations, and effective storytelling techniques for senior-level clients.
• Translate findings into succinct, actionable business insights, often in coordination with partners who help you tell a holistic story.
• Apply a breadth of scalable tools and analytical techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact people-related business questions.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources and reconcile conflicts.
• Educate clients on self-service solutions.
• Effectively contract and communicate with customers, partners, and co-workers
• Stay connected with product groups while being knowledgeable about latest capabilities, features and technology updates on the product roadmap. Come up with creative ways to incorporate relevant features in reporting solutions.
• Lead projects ranging from ad-hoc business analysis to driving infrastructure requirements to enable proper data collection, manipulation, and reporting.
• Break through communication issues and effectively develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to define deliverables, timelines, and responsibilities.

Competencies

• Adaptability: regularly scan the environment to help anticipate changes that could affect key projects and effectively change plans, goals, actions, or priorities to respond to changing situations
• Collaboration: maintain a broader perspective and identify and evaluate opportunities to enhance the business through cross-group collaboration. Incorporate diverse perspectives to thoroughly address complex business issues.
• Customer Focus: Gathers customer impressions of products and services and integrates this feedback into decision making. Seeks information about the underlying needs of customers.
• Judgment: lead others in scoping problems by identifying key issues, inputs, stakeholders, and outcomes. Apply a broad functional knowledge base to solve problems.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business analytics, human resources, or other business-related roles OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, or related field AND 3+ years of experience in business analytics, human resources, or other business-related roles OR Master’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, or related field AND 2+ years of experience in business analytics, human resources, or other business-related roles.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in business analytics, human resources, or other business-related roles OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, or related field AND 5+ years of experience in business analytics, human resources, or other business-related roles OR Master’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, or related field AND 4+ years of experience in business analytics, human resources, or other business-related roles.
• 3+ years storytelling with data.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with BI tools (Excel, Power Pivot, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, etc.).
• 3+ years working in or supporting HR.

The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $119,200 and $178,800.

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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