Ellucian
Business Intelligence Analyst - HR Systems EXP
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Reston, VA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Information Technology
🗓️ February 27th, 2025
Power BI
SaaS
SQL
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Business Intelligence Analyst. This role involves developing critical data assets and managing company-wide reporting to drive informed decision-making, working closely with HR leaders to deliver People insights using tools like Tableau and Power BI. The analyst will refine BI solutions to improve business outcomes and gain expertise in HR analytics.
Highlights
Highlights
- Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting tools for HR professionals.
- Build and leverage dashboards with Tableau and Power BI.
- Advanced MS Excel knowledge required.
- Experience with SQL for data analysis preferred.
- Comprehensive health coverage and flexible time off.
- Essential qualifications include 2+ years of Human Resources experience.
- Ability to work with confidential datasets and perform complex data analysis.
- Benefits include 401k matching, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.
- Support diversity and inclusion programs.
- Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills required.
Business Intelligence Analyst - HR Systems EXP Full Description
Business Intelligence Analyst - HR Systems EXP - (HYBRID - Reston, VA)
- 2003 Edmund Halley Drive, Reston, Virginia, US, 20191; Washington, Washington, DC
- Information Technology/Security
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Are you looking to join an innovative team at a leading higher education technology company? If you’re passionate about People Analytics and eager to build expertise in business intelligence, enterprise tools, and HR data strategy, this role is for you!
As part of Ellucian’s Business Intelligence team, you’ll develop critical data assets and manage company-wide reporting to drive informed decision-making. This team leads BI initiatives that enhance data-driven business management.
As the Business Intelligence Analyst, you’ll deliver People insights using Tableau, Power BI, and automation tools, working closely with HR leaders to produce accurate, timely, and impactful reporting. Through collaboration, you’ll help refine BI solutions that improve business outcomes while gaining deep expertise in HR analytics.
What you will bring
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Are you looking to join an innovative team at a leading higher education technology company? If you’re passionate about People Analytics and eager to build expertise in business intelligence, enterprise tools, and HR data strategy, this role is for you!
As part of Ellucian’s Business Intelligence team, you’ll develop critical data assets and manage company-wide reporting to drive informed decision-making. This team leads BI initiatives that enhance data-driven business management.
As the Business Intelligence Analyst, you’ll deliver People insights using Tableau, Power BI, and automation tools, working closely with HR leaders to produce accurate, timely, and impactful reporting. Through collaboration, you’ll help refine BI solutions that improve business outcomes while gaining deep expertise in HR analytics.
What you will bring
- 2+ years of Human Resources experience in a role that involves Compensation, HR project management, HR systems and/or database management and data visualization and able to work with confidential datasets
- Advanced MS Excel knowledge including complex formulas and pivot tables and experience performing analysis from multiple data sets.
- Experience with data in all areas of HR, including Recruiting, Talent Development, Total Rewards, etc.
- Experience related to data analysis leveraging SQL preferred
- Experience with building dashboards with business intelligence tools, such as Tableau and Power BI, and generating insights from analysis
- Strong critical thinking and execution skills.
- High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and effective maintenance of people data
- Flexibility and ability to provide fast turnaround when needed
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Data driven mentality with a focus on thoughtful action
- A self-starter and able to work independently but also collaborate in a close team environment; confident enough to challenge the status quo
Where you will make an impact
- Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting tools to help HR professionals and business leaders understand organization trends (e.g., hiring, turnover, workforce planning)
- Develop and implement innovative, data-driven solutions that address business needs
- Partner closely with HR Business Partners, and HR colleagues in other functional areas to identify key workforce issues impacting the business
- Use a consultative approach to determine and articulate internal customer business questions, develop the best approach for data analysis, and turn data into actionable insights & recommendations
- Participate in HR insights projects to investigate potential measures, correlations, and causality connections for critical business issues
- Develop hypotheses, document assumptions, and analyze results as they relate to key business initiatives
- Explore and analyze the data creatively to identify HR insights that add value in the strategic decision-making process
- Deliver high quality analysis, reports, and presentations using simple and effective visualizations that can be scaled for consumption by a larger audience
- Create and maintain dashboards. Develop processes to streamline the compilation of periodic reporting/analysis
- Create advanced models in Excel to combine data sources and steer business decisions
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly. Additionally, we are aware of fake applicant schemes and have rigorous internal processes in place to mitigate such risk and inform proper authorities of any such instances that arise.
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