Midland (WFH Arrangement Available)
$600 p/d + Super
12 month contract (with strong possibility of extension)
Must have Australian Citizenship
Your new company
This large public sector organisation is seeking an experienced Workforce Data Analyst to support enterprise workforce planning and evidence-based decision-making. This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of reliable workforce datasets and analytical reporting.
Your new role
You will gather, validate and analyse workforce, financial and operational data to provide a reliable evidence base for enterprise workforce planning. You will translate complex information into clear reports, visualisations and workforce scenarios that highlight trends, risks, opportunities and emerging workforce pressures.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing the collection, validation and reconciliation of workforce, financial and operational data
- Maintaining workforce planning datasets, data definitions, source mappings, business rules and assumptions
- Analysing workforce demand and supply, vacancies, recruitment, workforce movement, labour hire, contractors, partners and cost data
- Investigating data discrepancies and quality issues, working with business areas to resolve issues or document limitations and confidence levels
- Producing reports, visualisations and analytical summaries for monthly enterprise workforce planning position papers
- Supporting the development and testing of workforce scenarios by applying agreed assumptions and assessing potential impacts
- Collaborating with Finance, People and Culture, operational areas, workforce planning specialists and data owners to validate findings and meet planning timeframes
What you’ll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- Australian Citizenship is mandatory for this position
- Demonstrated experience collecting, cleaning, reconciling and validating workforce or comparable data from multiple sources
- Experience maintaining analytical datasets and producing reports, visualisations and clear analytical summaries
- Strong critical thinking skills, with the ability to identify trends, risks, gaps and opportunities within complex datasets
- The ability to communicate technical and analytical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and experience working collaboratively with business areas, finance teams and data owners
- Knowledge of data quality, governance, privacy, information security, records management and quality assurance practices
- An understanding of workforce planning, forecasting, workforce composition and scenario modelling
- The ability to gather and synthesise information from multiple sources to develop practical, evidence-based insights
What you’ll get in return
You will have the opportunity to contribute to enterprise-level workforce planning and support informed organisational decision-making through trusted data and analysis.