Senior Data and Business Analyst

Job Description

The University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for the Senior Data Analyst and Business Analyst position! This role serves as a key strategic resource within the College of Arts and Sciences Budget Office, providing advanced data analysis, business process improvement, and systems support for the College's four academic divisions and more than 60 departments, programs, and centers. This position leverages financial, payroll, human resources, and operational data to support informed decision-making, enhance business processes, and ensure the integrity of college-wide reporting and analytics.

University of Colorado

Boulder, CO

Job posting number: #7368286

Posted:
August 14, 2026

Final date to receive applications:
Open Until Filled

• Serve as the primary College resource for payroll planning, reporting, reconciliation, and data analysis across all divisions and units within the College of Arts and Sciences.
• Maintain the integrity, accuracy, confidentiality, and security of payroll and personnel data across multiple systems and reporting platforms.
• Analyze payroll funding, salary distributions, position funding changes, and labor allocations to ensure compliance with university, state, federal, and sponsor requirements.
• Calculate and process permanent and temporary payroll funding adjustments, earnings changes, retroactive corrections, and labor redistributions.
• Monitor payroll transactions and conduct regular audits to identify discrepancies, errors, and compliance concerns, recommending corrective actions as needed.
• Partner with department administrators, HR professionals, business managers, and campus offices to resolve complex payroll and funding issues.
• Develop and maintain payroll planning tools, forecasting models, and reconciliation processes to support departmental and college budget management.
• Lead and coordinate the annual College merit allocation process for all employee groups, including data validation, allocation calculations, reporting, communications, and implementation support.
• Create and deliver payroll reports, dashboards, presentations, and ad hoc analyses for department leadership, divisional leadership, college administration, and campus collaborators.
• Develop, document, and communicate payroll-related procedures, business processes, guidelines, and training materials.
• Train departmental staff on payroll reporting tools, report interpretation, funding management, payroll timelines, and related processes.

• Provide functional leadership, data analysis, reporting expertise, and project management support for budget-related systems, processes, and initiatives.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance college-wide budget and financial reporting tools using technologies such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL-based reporting tools, and enterprise reporting systems.
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports that support strategic decision-making, budget forecasting, resource allocation, and operational planning.
• Analyze financial and workforce data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and process improvement recommendations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial reporting and budgeting systems applied by the College.
• Serve as secondary administrator for the College Financial Portal, including user support, testing, troubleshooting, security access review, and process improvement recommendations.
• Gather business requirements, document functional specifications, and collaborate with technical teams to implement system enhancements and process improvements.
• Lead or participate in system implementations, upgrades, testing activities, data validation efforts, and post-implementation support.
• Coordinate project activities, timelines, deliverables, partner communications, and change management efforts related to financial systems and reporting initiatives.
• Develop training materials and provide consultation to departments regarding budget reporting tools and financial data interpretation.

• Provide advanced workforce analytics, HR systems support, reporting expertise, and project leadership for college and campus initiatives.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance workforce reporting, dashboards, and analytics tools to support strategic workforce planning and operational decision-making.
• Create and maintain reports related to employee demographics, organizational structures, compensation, position management, workforce trends, vacancies, and staffing metrics.
• Develop and maintain HCM versus Base Salary reporting and reconciliation processes.
• Conduct People Soft and HR data audits to ensure data quality, integrity, compliance, and reporting accuracy.
• Identify reporting gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation or process improvements within HR and payroll operations.
• Gather business requirements and provide functional analysis for HR-related…