We are seeking a highly skilled People Planning Senior Analyst to join our FP&A team, supporting workforce planning, budgeting, and forecasting for thousands of employees across the organization. This role partners closely with HR and business leaders, providing accurate, insightful, and actionable analytics to guide strategic decisions.
The ideal candidate is analytical, collaborative, and detail-oriented, with a relentless commitment to accuracy and data integrity. You will not just report numbers—you will ask the “why” behind them, anticipate trends, and provide insights that help the business plan effectively.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with FP&A, HR, and Corporate Function leaders (Legal, HR, IT, and other G&A teams) to support workforce planning, headcount forecasting, and budget alignment.
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes for corporate functions, ensuring alignment with company-wide financial and strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with cost center owners to develop, review, and consolidate budgets, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Perform variance analysis (actuals vs. budget/forecast), identifying key drivers and delivering actionable insights to leadership.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools that provide real-time visibility into workforce trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support multi-year workforce planning and scenario modeling, including hiring plans, organizational changes, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Analyze and monitor key workforce metrics such as headcount variance, cost/revenue per employee, departmental spend, and forecast accuracy.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, HR, Operations, and business leaders to align workforce strategies with broader business objectives.
• Ensure the highest standards of data integrity, governance, and confidentiality, especially for sensitive compensation and personnel data.
• Continuously improve processes, tools, and models to enhance forecasting accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• Challenge assumptions, ask critical questions, and provide insights to inform business decisions.
Qualifications:
• 3–5+ years of experience in workforce planning, people analytics, finance operations, ideally in organizations with 1,000+ employees.
• Strong knowledge of workforce planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on accuracy and data quality.
• Proven ability to build strong partnerships with HR leaders, finance teams, and business stakeholders.
• Proactive mindset to identify risks/opportunities before they arise
• Hands-on experience with dashboards and KPIs development
• Advanced Excel (power query, pivot tables), Power BI (preferred), or Tableau