HR and Payroll Data Analyst

HR and Payroll Data and Management Information Analyst

3 months initially - 15- 20ph + holiday pay

Location: High Wycombe

Start date: Early January 2026

Hybrid pattern - 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Our client is seeking a talented HR/Payroll Data & Management Information Analyst to join an established team, initially for 3 months in High Wycombe. There will be opportunities to be considered for permanent opportunities within the tea, subject to performance and sign off.

Your recent and previous experience will certainly cover a very similar breadth of duties, and you will offer recent UK experience of working ideally in a similar multi-site, corporate business.

Your duties as the HR and Payroll Data and MI Analyst will be varied and interesting and will report into the Reward Manager and the Payroll Manager, and you will be responsible for HR Reporting, MI & Insights. You will be responsible for supporting the creation, design and testing to ensure that managers, leaders and the various HR and Payroll teams including Employee Service Centre, HRBP's and Centres of Excellence have direct access to the data, reports and dashboards they need, providing useful insights to enable effective decision making.

- You will ensure the quality of the people data and the continuous development of our people reporting and analytics to ensure that relevant management information, insights and trends are identified and available to key stakeholders, including HR/Payroll and business unit leaders.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Developing core people analytics dashboards and reports, analysing data and reporting key trends/anomalies/points of interest to key stakeholders.
• Cultivate strong relationships with various teams, and key business stakeholders that enable the successful development and delivery of people reports, dashboards and analytics, ensuring a good understanding of their strategic objectives
• Providing data insights into people metrics to help forecasting, business planning and the development of forward-thinking people strategies
• Assisting with the ongoing development of system reporting
• Supporting the change governance process for managing BAU change requests to HR data and MI
• Taking full ownership for the quality of the people data, understanding and reconciling gaps, overlaps, and apparent contradictions among and within reports and reporting tools and ensuring documentation is maintained detailing reporting processes
• Responsible for ensuring that HR reporting, dashboards and analytics are delivered providing useful insights to the business and HR team.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience in HR Reporting and MI function and strategy would be highly desirable
• Experience developing reports and dashboards within an HR platform providing useful insights
• Data integrity and quality management
• Experience of using BI software and ideally querying databases or a data warehouse
• Experience of the Ceridian Dayforce system would be desirable

Please do get in touch for further details on this superb newly created role in High Wycombe.

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