Job Description

At EY, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we\xe2\x80\x99re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.
Job Summary:
The Global Digital Talent team is a strategic technology advisor for Talent, integrating HR Systems, PDRA and Process capability to bring together the power of technology, AI, reporting, data & analytics to deliver exceptional employee experiences. The team drives the digital strategy, digital user experience, process automation, solution development, process simplification and standardization across the employee lifecycle:
Digital Insights: Provides strategic people reporting, analysis, predictive analytics, and workforce planning capabilities to enable EY to make informed, evidence based, commercial decisions to drive business value. Establishes overall organisation effectiveness and value across EY with real time process embedded insights to increase accountability and transparency while delivering at scale.
Digital Strategy & Innovation: Develops and delivers a vision around how digital assets will transform HR business models and fulfil those business stakeholder needs, goals, opportunities, and challenges.
Digital Enablement \xe2\x80\x93 Continuously deliver new value with adoption of new ways to solve business problems with standard solutions and, exploring and rapidly experimenting within the possibilities of the continuously evolving Cloud system.
Digital Experience & Process Management \xe2\x80\x93 Acts as the steward for identification of opportunities to drive digital innovation and transformation across the employee lifecycle. Responsible for the Digital people experience catering to the evolving and expanding needs of talent & business at large in-tandem with service delivery efficiencies. . The HR Business Analyst role is required to build good client relationships with key stakeholders. This is an important position requiring both technical knowledge and business awareness, providing challenging opportunities for motivated individuals to contribute to the strategic direction of the digital insights team. The objective will be to organize and execute the deliverables in accordance with the specified business complexity and deliver rich people insights to the business and enable higher quality decision making with less human manipulation. Essential Functions:

• Develop strong partnerships across the business to deliver complex messages and insights.
• Collaborate with reporting enablement and analytics team to build and enable services at scale.
• Work on digital insights projects effectively and leverage deep project experience and insight to optimize project delivery, identify risks and appropriate mitigation strategies, consulting with leaders as needed.
• Analyse and clearly present data and other information to identify significant trends or key issues, provides recommendations and makes presentations on trends, forecasts, supplies, predicts future potentials.
• Actively engage with the team and delivers on the lead\xe2\x80\x99s expectation on the business context, scope, and translate into projects and deliverables.
• Work with the lead to manage the Digital Insights roadmap and ensuring execution of the Digital Talent roadmap
• Support the deployment on new products and service offerings, serves as change lead interacting with stakeholders
• Participate in strategy discussions translating into actionable measurement
• Be an expert across multiple projects or programmes simultaneously, supporting the teams on their requirements gathering, design, change or implementation approach. May conduct one-off business research and analysis tasks related to programme or project scope.
• Work with an insight\xe2\x80\x99s teams and across other digital talent team to deliver across value chain
• Identify and deliver clear recommendations around areas of value creation and communicate scale of opportunity to the business

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements and agree with digital insights designs across business stakeholders, dealing with different interests and resolving disagreements and conflicts, and sometimes needing to challenge poor requirements and design decisions.
• For allocated processes, execute the team\xe2\x80\x99s decisions to define, delivery and continuously improve the process.
• Translate complex analytical results into actionable recommendations
• Share market insights and review findings with key stakeholders/networks influencing change as required.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Good business acumen \xe2\x80\x93 ability to understand data analytics landscape and to consider the functionality and integration requirements in line with the analytical and reporting capabilities required to implement strategic priorities.
• Proactive consulting skills that drive business impact; able to interpret business requirements and, where prioritized, co-create the most relevant & pragmatic approach
• Good to have knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools and well versed with related market trends, leading practices, services, and solutions.
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, resource requirements and meet deadlines
• Strong hold on project management skills to focus on deliverables with agility
• Good to be familiar with statistical and wiling to learn machine learning techniques
• Ability to participate effectively in virtual teams and networks across diverse and dispersed geographies.
• Strong teaming skills; collaborate effectively across talent ecosystem, within the digital team and the firm at-large.
• Strong communication skills for sharing thought leadership across EY and externally to enhance EY reputation.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail - the ability to operate within budget and effective time frames.
• Strong research and analytical skills to track and interpret trending directions for data analytics and to identify potential future options.
• Ability to cope with ambiguity; to drive change and performance outcomes in a complex and agile environment.

Supervision Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business consulting lead and the wider Digital talent Functions to ensure the provision of services that support business and functional delivery.
• Work closely with the teams across the Digital and wider Talent Functions and contribute with information to support the development and implementation of innovative solutions that support business and functional delivery.
• Ability to develop people, skills in coaching, mentoring, and learning on the job
• Effectiveness in building trust, respect, and cooperation among teams
• Independently maintain and leverage (when appropriate) an internal network, including effective partnerships with senior stakeholders, across EY practices / functions that will enable personal effectiveness in the position.

Other Requirements:

• Due to global nature of the role; travel and willingness to work alternative hours will be required
• Due to global nature of the role; English language skills - excellent written and verbal communication will be required

Job Requirements: Education:

• Minimum Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Human Resources, Mathematics, Statistics or related discipline required.
• In addition, a Diploma in Human Resources or Talent Analytics is an added advantage.

Experience:

• Experience in a closely related Data analytics / data / insights driven role.
• Experience in solving problems in a structured manner and delivering results in a complex and dynamic environment
• Experience in developing digital capability, defining key digital competencies for the team, and ensuring provision of learning to advance skills.
• Demonstrable experience of collaborating with talent colleagues to understand needs / requirements and of shaping digital solutions.
• Demonstrable experience of working with third party vendors / external system implementors to deliver reporting, insights, and analytical solutions from design to enablement.
• Experience in leading and participating in global dispersed teams to enhance services, processes, and standards.
• Demonstrable experience of working in fast-paced, ambiguous, stressful environments to deliver required results.
• Demonstrable experience of anticipating issues and challenges and proactively working to navigate challenges.
• Experience in conducting internal and external research and analysis, providing best practices and insights to drive improvements.
• Demonstrable experience of having worked to lead or provide SMR advice to achieve successful change outcomes.

Certification Requirements:

• Higher professional or master\xe2\x80\x99s qualification in a related discipline is preferred, not required
• Active membership in related professional bodies or industry groups is preferred, not required

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