Analytics Analyst

Build your big career with the firm that does Big Law, Better. McDermott Will & Schulte is a leading global law firm that brings together more than 1,700+ lawyers and 1,400 business professionals. We celebrate excellence, collaboration, and community and have been recognized as a top workplace by USA Today, Fortune, The American Lawyer, Vault and others. We are also certified by Great Place to Work.

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Job Description:

The People Analytics Analyst supports the Firm's People Analytics function by providing leaders and teams with timely, trustworthy, and actionable insights from workforce data. This position combines data analysis, reporting, and visualization to support decision-making across staffing, performance and productivity, internal mobility, retention, compensation, and talent development. The analyst works with HR colleagues and Firm leaders to understand business questions, identify meaningful patterns and trends and translate data into insights and recommendations.

The role also contributes to improving analytical efficiency and capabilities through the use of AI, automation, scalable reporting solutions, and more reliable workforce data.

• Conduct workforce data analysis for HR colleagues and Firm leadership, developing reports, dashboards, presentations, and other deliverables to communicate findings and recommendations
• Produce, validate, and continually improve recurring workforce reporting, including headcount, staffing, turnover, and other key HR metrics
• Develop reusable reporting solutions, dashboards, and automated workflows to improve analytical efficiency, consistency, and stakeholder access to information
• Apply AI tools and emerging technologies to streamline data preparation, analysis, reporting, and other People Analytics workflows, ensuring appropriate validation, accuracy, and confidentiality
• Gather, clean, combine, transform, and validate workforce data from multiple sources, identifying and resolving data quality or consistency issues
• Collaborate with HR Managers on workforce modeling, headcount planning, and talent pipeline analytics for specific practice groups and business functions
• Partner with HR project leads and Firm leadership to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of HR programs, initiatives, and policy changes
• Support the design, maintenance, and adoption of Workday reporting, Prism and other analytical platforms, including opportunities to standardize reporting and expand self-service capabilities
• Partner with HRIS and IT to improve workforce data accessibility, quality, integration, security, and governance
• Collaborate with the broader People Analytics team on research and analytical projects, including opportunities to integrate employee listening results with other workforce data
• Stay current on People Analytics, AI, and analytical technologies,…