Senior Workforce Analytics Consultant

Supports business area leadership with insights by applying and integrating advanced and predictive analysis, people metrics, reporting, and data driven insights that inform workforce decision-making. Uses numerous data sets to analyze, develop, and interpret statistical and predictive models.

About Xcelenergy

XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas.

We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day.

That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition.

We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond.

Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility.

Provides consulting that informs the business on human capital opportunities that align to corporate strategies and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities Advanced People Analytics - Extracts data from multiple systems and data warehouses using advanced skills in relational databases and predictive modeling.
• Uses various analytics techniques such as machine learning to complete advanced data modeling, while ensuring data quality.
• Incorporates external data sources into modeling to provide insights using statistical analyses.
• Interprets and transforms results into effective information through the use of ad-hoc reports, dashboards, benchmarking (internal and external), and data visualization.
• Consulting - Influences business leadership teams to build greater alignment of their workforce plans to the company's business goals and objectives while optimizing the use of their budgets.
• Effectively responds to shifting strategic directives and priorities.
• Develops relationships to ensure effective business planning and problem solving.
• Provides recommendations to ensure actionable strategies and solutions.
• Informs business partners of opportunities, risks, and potential alternate futures in regards to workforce planning.
• Uses data driven analytics to support recommendations of business decisions.
• Develops relationships to ensure effective problem solving, and provides insights into current market trends and analysis of external data to ensure alignment with overall company strategy.
• Data Presentation - Designs and develops presentation materials for delivery to varying levels of leadership to support strategic decision making.
• Identifies and develops reporting to increase the impact of the data, which includes the creation of comprehensive workforce plans and business cases to address future workforce needs, strategies, and solutions.
• Utilizes diverse background in business consultation and workforce metric creation along with functional knowledge of human resources, regulations and compliance, operations, and finance to provide a fully integrated approach to development of workforce plans.

Requirements

• Requirements 6 years of relevant experience in gathering, analyzing, and reporting information in an HR, Finance, or IT setting.
• Proven working knowledge of SQL based relational databases and/or other tools (Python, R, SPSS, etc.).
• Adaptability in learning new systems for data management, visual graphics and predictive forecasting.
• Highly efficient at migrating datasets from multiple source systems.
• Working knowledge of data warehouses and data modeling.
• Proven ability to tell a story around complex information in a simplistic way and influence stakeholders.
• Strong abilities creating visual representations of analytic trends and forecasts.
• Advanced abilities using Microsoft Excel and/or Access.
• Preferred degree in business, math, statistics, finance, or related discipline.
• Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.

Pay

Non-Bargaining The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $84,900.00 to $120,567.00 per year

Benefits

• Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe Our Employee Commitments Work that makes a difference A team you can count of Opportunities to grow
• This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

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Deadline to Apply

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