Location: Remote - Concord, NH

Employment Type: Contingent Worker (Contract, W2)

Contract Length: 6 months (possible extension)

Compensation: $43/$47 per hour (based on experience)

Summary of the Role

Join a cross-functional analytics team to support hiring and workforce planning operations for a growing organization. As a Data Analyst, you will maintain and validate hiring and onboarding datasets across multiple systems, ensuring reliable, actionable data for reporting and decision-making. The ideal candidate thrives on hands-on data work, keeps a rigorous focus on data integrity, and enables robust analytics in a dynamic, high-volume environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Enter and maintain complex workforce and hiring data within Smartsheet
• Clean, validate, transform, and integrate large datasets from multiple sources
• Develop and sustain advanced Excel forecasting models
• Build and update executive-level dashboards and reporting visualizations in Power BI
• Support operational analytics, workforce planning, and resource management initiatives
• Generate timely tracking and reporting on hiring progress and onboarding status
• Consolidate data to provide single-source reporting for cross-functional teams
• Identify and resolve discrepancies or gaps in datasets
• Document data definitions, workflows, and improvement opportunities
• Ensure alignment of hiring data with onboarding activities and program transitions

Required Experience & Skills

• 3+ years of experience working with large datasets in operations, analytics, or workforce planning environments
• Strong data management, data entry, cleansing, and validation skills
• Advanced Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, forecasting models)
• Experience with Smartsheet and Power BI (or similar dashboard/reporting tools)
• Ability to work with complex data from multiple sources and maintain data integrity

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (required)
• Bachelor’s with 5+ years relevant experience strongly preferred
• Experience in HR data analytics, workforce planning, resource management, or operational analytics environments

Top 3 Must Have Skills

1. 3+ years hands-on experience with large datasets in workforce planning or analytics

2. Advanced Excel and practical Power BI/Smartsheet reporting experience

3. Proven ability in data management, cleaning, and validation across multiple sources

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Maintain and update centralized hiring datasets across Smartsheet, OrgVue, and CapCity
• Perform ongoing data entry and reconciliation for hiring and onboarding status
• Validate, clean, and consolidate large datasets to support timely, accurate reporting
• Generate weekly and monthly hiring progress and onboarding reports
• Support execution leads by flagging data gaps or risks, ensuring onboarding readiness
• Document processes and assist in process improvement to improve data consistency

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree & 2+ years of experience (Engineering, Operations, OR Scientific)

This posting is for Contingent Worker, not an FTE