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HR Operations Specialists are routinely sponsored on H-1B visas, but approval depends on framing the role as a specialty occupation requiring a degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field. Employers in tech, healthcare, and professional services sponsor this role most consistently. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Location:
US-AZ - Phoenix
Position Type:
Full Time
Virtual Eligible:
Yes
Ref #:
7509
DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS
At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!
About us
University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused.
Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.
We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.
ABOUT THE POSITION
A Senior Human Resources Business Intelligence Analyst (Sr HR BI Analyst) partners with Human Resources, Payroll, and Information Technology to deliver scalable business intelligence solutions that drive data-informed workforce decisions. The Sr. HR BI Analyst is responsible for designing and maintaining Workday reports, EIB integrations, and interactive Power BI dashboards. Utilizing SQL and AWS, this position builds optimized data pipelines and reporting structures to ensure secure, high-performing data delivery. Additionally, this position analyzes workforce trends, ensures strict data governance, and troubleshoots technical integration issues to continuously improve the organization's HR analytics capabilities.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
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Partner with HR, Payroll, Time and Attendance, IT, and business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define metrics, and deliver BI solutions that support workforce and operational decision-making.
-
Design, develop, test, and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB integrations, and Workday Orchestrate solutions for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance reporting needs.
-
Write, optimize, and validate SQL queries using tools such as DBeaver to extract, analyze, reconcile, and prepare data for reporting and analytics.
-
Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, datasets, and visualizations that provide accurate, timely, and actionable HR insights.
-
Develop and support data models, reporting structures, and data pipelines using AWS and related data tools to improve reporting scalability, reliability, and performance.
-
Analyze HR, payroll, workforce, and operational data to identify trends, explain variances, highlight risks, and recommend opportunities for process or reporting improvements.
-
Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, standardized, and aligned with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance expectations.
-
Troubleshoot reporting, integrations, dashboard, and data quality issues by identifying root causes and partnering with stakeholders to implement sustainable solutions.
-
Create documentation for reporting logic, data definitions, business rules, workflows, and support procedures to improve transparency and long-term maintainability.
-
Continuously improve HR BI products, reporting processes, and analytics capabilities by evaluating new tools, enhancing existing solutions, and applying BI best practices.
-
Perform other duties as required or apparent.
NOTE: The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate manager.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
None
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
-
Master of Science degree in Business Analytics
-
Two (2) years of experience in business intelligence, HR analytics, BI development, reporting, data analysis, or a related analytics role.
-
Advanced experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing HR reporting, dashboards, datasets, and analytics solutions using SQL, AWS and PowerBI tools to access, prepare, analyze, visualize, and deliver data-driven insights.
-
Two (2) years of experience with Workday reporting and integrations for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance, including building, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting operational and analytical reports, Workday Orchestrate processes, EIB integrations, data movement, reporting dependencies, and data validation.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
-
Experience with additional HR Workday modules beyond HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance.
-
Experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable BI solutions, datasets, reporting structures, and data models that improve HR decision-making.
-
Experience with ETL, data integration, data warehousing, data preparation, data quality assurance, and troubleshooting reporting or data discrepancies across structured sources, flat files, APIs, databases, or cloud-based platforms as well as statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics, or other advanced analytics methods.
-
Strong data analysis and visualization skills, including the ability to identify trends, validate results, investigate variances, and build clear, reliable dashboards, reports, and KPI views.
-
Strong understanding of HR data, business processes, data flows, data quality, data governance, and reporting standards in an enterprise environment.
-
Advanced ability to translate business requirements into reporting solutions, data models, metrics, dashboards, and actionable insights.
University of Phoenix is an equal opportunity employer.
If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.
PAY RANGE
The annual pay range for this position is $84,000 (minimum), $126,900 (midpoint), and $169,800 (maximum).
Typical hiring range is between the minimum and midpoint of the above pay range. Actual starting base pay may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, location and budget. Compensation above the midpoint is generally associated with experienced, long-tenured employees who have demonstrated sustained performance and expertise in the role.
Individuals in this role are eligible for:
- Annual Bonus Award
Your work is critical to helping adult learners achieve their dreams, and we’re committed to rewarding you for your efforts. We offer a competitive, comprehensive total rewards package designed to help you achieve your health, financial, educational and work-life balance goals.
Full-time employees are eligible for:
- Medical, dental and vision plans; Flexible Spending Accounts; Health Savings Accounts; Life and Disability insurance; and our Wellness incentive program;
- Competitive 401(k) employer match;
- Substantial tuition discount for you and eligible dependents; and,
- A generous time off package, including paid vacation, sick time and company holidays.
Application Deadline is 08/14/2026.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Location:
US-AZ - Phoenix
Position Type:
Full Time
Virtual Eligible:
Yes
Ref #:
7509
DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS
At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!
About us
University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused.
Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.
We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.
ABOUT THE POSITION
A Senior Human Resources Business Intelligence Analyst (Sr HR BI Analyst) partners with Human Resources, Payroll, and Information Technology to deliver scalable business intelligence solutions that drive data-informed workforce decisions. The Sr. HR BI Analyst is responsible for designing and maintaining Workday reports, EIB integrations, and interactive Power BI dashboards. Utilizing SQL and AWS, this position builds optimized data pipelines and reporting structures to ensure secure, high-performing data delivery. Additionally, this position analyzes workforce trends, ensures strict data governance, and troubleshoots technical integration issues to continuously improve the organization's HR analytics capabilities.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
-
Partner with HR, Payroll, Time and Attendance, IT, and business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define metrics, and deliver BI solutions that support workforce and operational decision-making.
-
Design, develop, test, and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIB integrations, and Workday Orchestrate solutions for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance reporting needs.
-
Write, optimize, and validate SQL queries using tools such as DBeaver to extract, analyze, reconcile, and prepare data for reporting and analytics.
-
Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, datasets, and visualizations that provide accurate, timely, and actionable HR insights.
-
Develop and support data models, reporting structures, and data pipelines using AWS and related data tools to improve reporting scalability, reliability, and performance.
-
Analyze HR, payroll, workforce, and operational data to identify trends, explain variances, highlight risks, and recommend opportunities for process or reporting improvements.
-
Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, standardized, and aligned with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance expectations.
-
Troubleshoot reporting, integrations, dashboard, and data quality issues by identifying root causes and partnering with stakeholders to implement sustainable solutions.
-
Create documentation for reporting logic, data definitions, business rules, workflows, and support procedures to improve transparency and long-term maintainability.
-
Continuously improve HR BI products, reporting processes, and analytics capabilities by evaluating new tools, enhancing existing solutions, and applying BI best practices.
-
Perform other duties as required or apparent.
NOTE: The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate manager.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
None
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
-
Master of Science degree in Business Analytics
-
Two (2) years of experience in business intelligence, HR analytics, BI development, reporting, data analysis, or a related analytics role.
-
Advanced experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing HR reporting, dashboards, datasets, and analytics solutions using SQL, AWS and PowerBI tools to access, prepare, analyze, visualize, and deliver data-driven insights.
-
Two (2) years of experience with Workday reporting and integrations for HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance, including building, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting operational and analytical reports, Workday Orchestrate processes, EIB integrations, data movement, reporting dependencies, and data validation.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
-
Experience with additional HR Workday modules beyond HCM, Payroll, and Time and Attendance.
-
Experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable BI solutions, datasets, reporting structures, and data models that improve HR decision-making.
-
Experience with ETL, data integration, data warehousing, data preparation, data quality assurance, and troubleshooting reporting or data discrepancies across structured sources, flat files, APIs, databases, or cloud-based platforms as well as statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics, or other advanced analytics methods.
-
Strong data analysis and visualization skills, including the ability to identify trends, validate results, investigate variances, and build clear, reliable dashboards, reports, and KPI views.
-
Strong understanding of HR data, business processes, data flows, data quality, data governance, and reporting standards in an enterprise environment.
-
Advanced ability to translate business requirements into reporting solutions, data models, metrics, dashboards, and actionable insights.
University of Phoenix is an equal opportunity employer.
If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.
PAY RANGE
The annual pay range for this position is $84,000 (minimum), $126,900 (midpoint), and $169,800 (maximum).
Typical hiring range is between the minimum and midpoint of the above pay range. Actual starting base pay may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, location and budget. Compensation above the midpoint is generally associated with experienced, long-tenured employees who have demonstrated sustained performance and expertise in the role.
Individuals in this role are eligible for:
- Annual Bonus Award
Your work is critical to helping adult learners achieve their dreams, and we’re committed to rewarding you for your efforts. We offer a competitive, comprehensive total rewards package designed to help you achieve your health, financial, educational and work-life balance goals.
Full-time employees are eligible for:
- Medical, dental and vision plans; Flexible Spending Accounts; Health Savings Accounts; Life and Disability insurance; and our Wellness incentive program;
- Competitive 401(k) employer match;
- Substantial tuition discount for you and eligible dependents; and,
- A generous time off package, including paid vacation, sick time and company holidays.
Application Deadline is 08/14/2026.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a HR Operations Specialist
Target industries with established HR sponsorship track records
Tech companies, healthcare systems, and large financial services firms file H-1B petitions for HR Operations roles far more consistently than small businesses. Focusing your search on these industries meaningfully improves your odds of finding a willing sponsor.
Emphasize the specialty occupation case in your application
USCIS scrutinizes HR roles for specialty occupation status. Highlight responsibilities that require specialized knowledge, such as HRIS implementation, compliance program management, or workforce analytics, rather than generalist administrative duties that any degree could support.
Align your degree field to the role description as closely as possible
A degree in human resources management, organizational psychology, or business administration strengthens your petition. If your degree is in an unrelated field, document how your coursework and experience connect directly to the HR operations functions you will perform.
Look for employers with prior HR sponsorship history
Companies that have sponsored HR Operations Specialists before have established internal processes and legal counsel familiar with the specialty occupation argument. These employers are significantly more likely to approve sponsorship requests than those encountering the process for the first time.
Prepare your employer for the LCA and prevailing wage process
Many employers hesitate because they do not understand the Labor Condition Application requirements. Offering a clear, simple explanation of what is involved, and confirming the role meets prevailing wage levels, removes a common barrier before it becomes a reason to decline.
Browse HR Operations roles on Migrate Mate to find sponsorship-ready employers
Migrate Mate curates job listings from employers who have demonstrated willingness to sponsor work visas. Filtering to HR Operations roles surfaces companies already open to the conversation, which reduces wasted applications to employers who will not sponsor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can an HR Operations Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, but the petition needs to be carefully constructed. USCIS requires that the role normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. HR Operations roles focused on HRIS systems, compliance, or workforce planning are stronger candidates than general HR coordinator positions. The job description must clearly require specialized knowledge, not just broad business acumen.
Which visa types are most commonly used to sponsor HR Operations Specialists?
The H-1B is the primary path for most HR Operations Specialists. Australians may qualify for the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and processes faster. Canadians and Mexicans can explore the TN visa under the USMCA, which covers HR-related professional roles. L-1 visa transfers are an option for those already working for a multinational employer abroad.
What degree does an HR Operations Specialist typically need for visa sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, industrial-organizational psychology, or a closely related field is the standard expectation. USCIS will review whether the degree field directly relates to the duties of the specific role. A general business degree is usually acceptable if the job description emphasizes HR-specific functions over generic management tasks.
How often do USCIS approve H-1B petitions for HR roles, and what are the main denial reasons?
HR roles face higher scrutiny than engineering or IT positions because USCIS sometimes questions whether they meet the specialty occupation standard. Common denial reasons include job descriptions that list duties performable by someone without a specific degree, or roles that appear primarily administrative. Petitions with detailed, technically specific duty descriptions and strong employer support letters have meaningfully better outcomes.
Where can I find HR Operations Specialist jobs where the employer is open to sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists HR Operations roles from employers who have indicated willingness to sponsor work visas, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to companies that will decline. Filtering by role and visa type on Migrate Mate lets you prioritize employers already familiar with the sponsorship process, which significantly improves your chances of reaching an offer stage.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored HR Operations Specialist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.