HR Data Analyst – People Analytics & Reporting
Leander, TX
Schedule: Standard Office Hours, Monday–Friday
Work Arrangement: Fully Onsite
Duration: 6-Month Contract
Pay: $43–52/hr W2
Our client is a leading aerospace and space technology company developing launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital spacecraft. They are seeking an HR Data Analyst – People Analytics & Reporting to support both the HR and Recruiting organizations. This is a highly hands-on analytics role focused on transforming raw, often messy workforce data into clean, accurate, and actionable reporting.
The ideal candidate is a strong data analyst with deep Power BI experience who can work directly with Excel-based data, identify inconsistencies, clean and structure information, build visualizations from scratch, and translate complex workforce data into clear stories for business and executive audiences.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Serve as a shared analytics resource supporting HR and Recruiting teams.
- Work with primarily Excel-based workforce and recruiting data from multiple sources.
- Clean, sanitize, standardize, and transform raw or inconsistent datasets for analysis and reporting.
- Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and visualizations from scratch.
- Develop clear, accurate, and executive-ready reporting to support business decision-making.
- Analyze workforce data and identify trends, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring further investigation.
- Track and report on key people and workforce metrics, which may include headcount, turnover, retention, recruiting activity, time-to-fill, compensation, and other business metrics.
- Translate data into clear narratives and actionable insights for HR, Recruiting, Finance, and executive stakeholders.
- Develop recurring reporting packages for monthly, quarterly, and other business reviews.
- Partner with stakeholders to understand reporting needs and determine the most meaningful metrics and visualizations.
- Validate data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across reporting outputs.
- Support data preparation and standardization efforts related to Firefly's transition toward Workday.
- Work independently while managing multiple data and reporting requests.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in HR data analytics, People Analytics, Workforce Analytics, Recruiting Analytics, or a similar data-focused role.
- Deep, hands-on experience with Microsoft Power BI, including building dashboards and visualizations from scratch.
- Strong Excel skills and experience working with large, complex, or inconsistent datasets.
- Demonstrated experience cleaning, sanitizing, transforming, and organizing raw data for reporting and visualization.
- Ability to interpret data and communicate the story behind the numbers to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience creating executive-ready dashboards, reports, or presentations.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to independently manage work with minimal supervision.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with HR, workforce, recruiting, or people-related data.
- Experience in a manufacturing, aerospace, industrial, or other complex operational environment.
- Experience with Workday or another HRIS/ERP system.
- Experience supporting data migration, system implementation, or data standardization initiatives.
- Experience with Power Query, SQL, Tableau, or other data transformation and visualization tools.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
