Analyst, Human Resources Data

Analyst, Human Resources Data

Austin Community College

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Analyst, Human Resources Data

Job Description Summary:

The Human Resources (HR) Data Analyst serves as the subject matter expert for HR data, system configuration (specifically Workday), benefits administration, and HR analytics. This role ensures data integrity across HR modules, building complex reports and queries, managing data integrations, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and institutional guidelines.

Beyond system maintenance, the HR Data Analyst transforms workforce data into reliable reporting, analysis, and decision support for Human Resources and College leadership. The position supports HR data governance and quality; develops reports, dashboards, metrics, and workforce insights; fulfills recurring institutional and regulatory reporting needs; and partners with HR functional leaders, the HCM Systems Analyst, Information Technology, Finance/Budget, Institutional Effectiveness, and other stakeholders to ensure workforce data are accurate, secure, consistent, and useful.

Working in tandem with a peer analyst, this position focuses on benefits while cross-training across broader HR operations to ensure seamless coverage and joint problem-solving across all Workday modules and workforce reporting.

Job Description:

Supervision Received and Exercised

Operates under the direct supervision of the department manager or designated supervisor. The role does not typically include supervisory responsibilities but may provide guidance to junior staff or new hires as part of onboarding and training processes. The position is expected to work independently on routine tasks while seeking direction for more complex assignments. Analysts are responsible for managing their own workload and deadlines, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and efficiently. Role requires collaboration with other team members and stakeholders to achieve department goals.

Competency Expectations

• Identify, analyze, and recommend solutions for various college processes and initiatives.
• Perform complex analytical and technical work.
• Analyze opportunities and develop opportunity assessments (hypothesis) based on stakeholder needs, alternative & peer analysis, research, and best practices to provide recommendations and define desired outcomes.
• Perform strategic research; analyze and interpret data; create customized reporting formats for requested reports; may conduct stakeholder needs analysis, identify instructional goals and objectives, and create training models appropriate for a given project and audience.

Description of Duties and Tasks

Data Analytics, Querying, & Reporting

• Develop, maintain, and execute simple to complex queries, Workday custom reports, and system extracts to analyze HR, benefits, and payroll data.
• Produce functional HR reports using advanced Excel functions (pivot tables, lookup functions, data validation) to analyze trends, audit records, and support leadership decisions.
• Gather, audit, and compile HR data to fulfill open record requests, annual surveys, ad hoc surveys, and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate and manage the SACSCOC process for faculty credentialing, licensing, and compliance reporting, communicating directly with academic administrators regarding findings and analysis.

Workday Systems Administration

• Configure and maintain Workday benefit, absence, compensation, and core HR modules, ensuring plan rules alignment and system efficiency.
• Prepare, validate, and execute Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) uploads for demographic, benefit, and compensation updates. Manage and troubleshoot data integration files across systems.
• Collaborate with IT, Payroll, and external technical vendors to diagnose system issues, test software updates/patches, and implement system enhancements.
• Document HR workflows, audit system performance, and write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure continuous improvement and data accuracy.

Benefits, Absence, & Payroll Auditing

• Administer and validate employee benefit and leave plan eligibility; process daily benefit changes and audit deductions across HCM and payroll systems.
• Audit leave balances, retroactive adjustments, and payroll-related benefit discrepancies; partner with Payroll to resolve data variances promptly.
• Process the annual roll of employee benefits.
• Support annual open enrollment activities and new hire onboarding, providing technical and functional systems guidance.

Compensation Administration & Regulatory Compliance

• Process the annual roll of employee salaries for each fiscal year, incorporating market adjustments, salary scale updates, annual board approved increases, and position reclassifications.
• Prepare annual ERS salary files, 1095-C ACA data reporting, IPEDS, and other mandated state/federal filings to ensure compliance.

Stakeholder Support & Training

• Serve as a technical lead for HR systems, researching complex employee inquiries, reviewing transaction histories, and resolving configuration issues.
• Develop and deliver training to staff and administrators on HCM workflows, systems procedures, benefits processes, and policy changes.

Job Requirements

Knowledge:

• Possess strong knowledge of best practices and principles behind setting, measuring, and refining KBRs and KPIs across a variety of business use cases.
• Apply analytical and problem-solving solutions and breakdown complex technical issues into measurable actions.
• Methods of documenting and tracking policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of all client configurations and when needing to dive into details.
• Understand computer hardware, network administration and software applications hosted or locally installed.
• Demonstrate proficient computer literacy and willingness to learn additional computer application software.
• Apply customer service techniques and practices.
• Develop training materials and delivery of training in a multicultural staff.
• Solve technical problems involving integrated operating systems and hardware platforms.

Skills:

• Utilize problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a broad range of users that are both technical and non-technical.
• Ensure availability, dependability, and reliability of assigned applications.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Effectively use interpersonal and communications skills including tact and diplomacy.
• Effectively use organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Use a variety of spreadsheets, word processing, database, and presentation software with emphasis on statistical charts, tables, and graphs.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Four (4) years of related work experience or an Associate's degree plus two (2) years of related work experience may be substituted for the required education (plus the required experience noted below).

Experience:

• Two (2) years of related experience.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Physical Demands :

• Standard office environment.

Work Environment:

• This position falls under ACC's Remote/In-Person framework.

Salary Range (PG 8)

$69,939 - $87,424

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

October 29, 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( View email address on staff.academickeys.com ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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