HR Analyst Jobs in New Jersey

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Job Summary
The Sr Workforce Planning and HR Analytics Analyst will primarily support Workday Adaptive Planning and One Model HR Analytics while driving improvements to capabilities supporting HR Centers of Excellence. This individual will serve as a technical expert, helping shape the long-term direction, design standards, and data strategy for HR reporting and analytics capabilities. They will partner with HR stakeholders to understand business questions, translate needs into reporting solutions, and recommend improvements that strengthen data visibility and scalable reporting functionality.

Essential Duties

• Develop, maintain, and enhance workforce data structures, models, and processes supporting HR reporting, dashboards, and broader organizational metrics.
• Manage and transform data from current and legacy HCM, payroll, workforce management, and other organizational sources into reliable, analytics-ready datasets.
• Build and support scalable data and automation solutions using tools such as One Model, Workday, Google Suite and related technologies.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis to ensure workforce data is accurate, complete, consistent, and appropriately represented over time.
• Support workforce data governance, including data definitions, access controls, privacy, and appropriate use of sensitive employee and payroll information.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Engineering, Data Analytics or related field or equivalent relevant work experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience working with complex datasets, including extracting, transforming, integrating, and validating data from multiple systems.
• A strong understanding of data modeling, data relationships, data quality, data governance, and data integrity principles.
• Experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools, preferably One Model and Workday Adaptive Planning.
• The ability to translate business and reporting requirements into effective data, reporting, automation, or process solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across HR, Finance, Operations, IT, and other business functions.
• A strict understanding of the sensitivity of HR and payroll data, including appropriate data security, confidentiality, and role-based access practices.

Base salary and/or rate of pay ranges listed are exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. Individual compensation offers will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to geographic location, relevant candidate experience and skill, education, and/or qualifications.

Base Salary Range: $84,000-$115,500

How We Protect What Matters Most:

1. We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. 2. Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood. 3. Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions. 4. Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence. 5. Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program. 6. We're committed to fostering a culture that reflects our values to connect, empower, evolve, and inspire. We offer many opportunities for employees to connect with one another, including through our Employee Resource Groups who focus on education and allyship for all of our employees.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

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