Senior HRIS Analyst (hybrid-Chicagoland)

Job Summary
The Senior HRIS Analyst is a key player in the HRIS team of the Global Human Resources division. This role will be responsible for partnering with HRBPs, COEs and business users to use data analytics and business insights to achieve business outcomes. Serves as an Liaison to help business leaders gather business requirements for strategic projects and initiatives. Coordinates process for testing of new releases or data elements added to core HRMS; develops testing scripts; plans timelines for testing and production release; executes testing scripts for testing of new data elements and releases; documents and analyzes results; acts as the point person to IT to ensure changes are made correctly. Performs systems configuration support and coordination of systems functionality testing. Able to lead HRIS workstream on internal projects.
Job Responsibilities

• Partners with HR Business Partners to use data analytics to support workforce development and planning, and to identify the human capital insights necessary to achieve business outcomes. Consults with end users on medium to complex level reporting solutions and how data can be provided to support strategic business decisions. Responds to user questions regarding data sources, with explanations of data elements and regarding the limitations of specific data analysis projects. Documents explanations of data and implications of data analyses to users expressing and interpreting technical terminology into layman's terms.
• Provides human capital data analysis and reporting to support merger and acquisition activities.
• Queries or extracts data from the HR repository, utilizing the Business Objects tool. Reviews ad-hoc reports, including but not limited to turnover statistics, headcount data, etc., to ensure data integrity and usefulness as compared with request.
• Performs mid-level data quality checks using advanced knowledge of the repository and other data sources to identify ETL problems and data anomalies proactively prior to report delivery to the users. Resolves semi-complex data integrity and escalates problems outside area of expertise to HRIS management.
• Schedules, designs and executes standard and semi-complex ad-hoc reports to retrieve data from the Employee Repository. Researches, troubleshoots and resolves data anomalies. Initiates data validation and ensure data integrity across data sources. Ensures data quality and usefulness of reports in comparison with requests. Provides advanced analytics of HR data to provide detailed explanation of data and relation to strategic business goals.
• Generates required annual, quarterly or ad-hoc reporting for government agency and legal compliance, such as EEO-1, VETS.
• Compiles and analyzes external and internal data from multiple systems and resources to provide fact-based guidance to the decision-making process within HR and the business at large. Conducts extensive analysis and researches and communicates internal and external best practices. Prepares benchmarking data for the HR department as appropriate.
• Coordinates process for testing of new releases or data elements added to repository; develops testing scripts; plans timelines for testing and production release; executes testing scripts for testing of new data elements and releases; documents and analyzes results; acts as the point person to IT to ensure changes are made correctly.
• Performs systems configuration support and coordination of systems functionality testing. Guides troubleshooting of system and coordinates implementation and releases. Documents and prepares test plans and evaluates new releases to ensure objectives are met. Provides support to end-users through system configuration and recommendations to enhance user experience.
• Analyzes and challenges work methods and functionality to determine/recommend process improvements and better results.
• Performs as the primary liaison to business owners, IT and vendors.
• Performs systems analysis and leads testing on new systems and system upgrades. Evaluates and recommends systems enhancements. Recommends vendors for selection and manages vendors and vendor relationships. Performs functional process modeling and usability reviews.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), a global leader in retail pharmacy. As America's most loved pharmacy, health and beauty company, Walgreens purpose is to champion the health and wellbeing of every community in America. Operating more than 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving approximately 8 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with platforms bringing together physical and digital, supported by the latest technology to deliver high-quality products and services in local communities nationwide.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits.
"An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans".
Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 1 years of experience with Human Resources data (including analysis, reporting, and data integrity) OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 2 years of experience with Human Resources data (including analysis, reporting, and data integrity).
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience using business analytical skills including facilitating requirements sessions and documenting activity workflows and business requirements.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: opening a table in datasheet view, entering data, filtering data, creating a form, modifying a form layout, applying themes, running, sorting and saving queries, creating and formatting a report, changing report test, adding an image, printing labels, navigating through records, and/or exporting to Excel).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience pulling large data sets (25,000+), synthesizing and summarizing the data to identify insights to business outcomes, and communicating/presenting findings to leadership.
• Experience with project management (planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: designing and creating simple queries, modifying data types, adding dates, working with required fields and/or creating labels).
• Experience utilizing basic level skill in SQL (for example: build queries, add, modify, and delete data; create and maintain tables, query and update databases using SQL statements, etc.) or other report-writing applications (i.e. Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal Reports).
• Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Project (for example: establishing basic project information, adding tasks and subtasks, setting task dependencies and constraints and/or tracking progress).
• Experience with MS Visio.