Senior Workforce Planning Analyst
Companies House
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Are you passionate about data-driven decision making and eager to make a tangible impact on an organisations strategic direction? Are you a strategic partner to help facilitate strategic workforce planning to build a thriving and future-ready organisation? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you to shine as a Senior Workforce Planning Analyst.
As a Senior Workforce Planning Analyst you’ll be at the helm of transforming how we manage and develop our most valuable asset – our people!
You’ll be the mastermind behind forecasting resourcing needs, analysing workforce trends to developing strategic workforce planning strategies to ensure we have the right people in the right place at the right time to influence the growth, efficiency and long-term success at Companies House.
At its heart, Strategic Workforce Planning it is about planning for the future, working with colleagues across the HR profession, with wide ranging specialisms in addition to wider organisational planning teams and communities to be ready for the future. This will help us achieve our ambition to be the best registry in the world and deliver our new legislation to tackle economic crime.
You will understand our people by interpreting data through analysis at a strategic level to not only explain the internal narrative but provide market and industry intelligence to help focus on a range of challenges and issues to enable benchmarking through defined people metrics to identify gap analysis.
You will recognise the importance of our people data and analytics to baseline our current position as an organisation. Determine current supply and future demand to challenge assumptions and scenario planning to develop robust workforce plans that make an impact and deliver overarching business objectives.
You will have excellent analytical skills, with the ability to use a variety of data tools, technologies, programmes and sources to extract, blend and visualise data for different audiences ranging from the top-level committees to managers and support areas. You will produce predictive and prescriptive analysis that identifies areas of interest, encourages curiosity and discussion, and creates cultural shift.
The Workforce Planning team regularly provide reports and insight to support the business. You will work with autonomy, be encouraged to be adaptable, bold and curious and challenge the status quo to ensure we continue to improve the value we’re adding to the organisation.
Job description
As a senior member of the Workforce Planning team you will provide strategic support to the business through our Business Partners to understand future workforce requirements and facilitate the Strategic Workforce Planning function. You will do this by:
Workforce planning:
- Developing workforce planning processes, including a range of forecasting models and frameworks to capture the information needed to Strategically Workforce Plan.
- Strategically engage our managers and leaders through our Business Partners to develop robust Workforce Plans where our People Data informs decision making, currently and for the future.
- Updating internal workforce planning practices and guidance and upskilling colleagues with emerging trends and continuous improvement to increase Strategic Workforce Planning capability and maturity across Companies House.
- Regular reporting of our workforce narrative, including wider HR transformation through robust products such as dashboards or other suitable visualisation tools to enable a culture of self-serve for our stakeholders to access the right people data at the right time.
- Planning, preparing and delivering external workforce planning data submissions that require in-depth analysis.
- Working closely with our Business Partners across a range of specialisms to gather insight on resource and capability and with senior managers and recruitment to use succession planning data to help fill key positions.
- Gathering business-wide workforce planning insights that also considers robust challenge through internal and external dependencies captured through tools such as PESTLE and/or SWOT.
- Engaging with other departments and external employers to network and share knowledge and experience and incorporating this into your work in a continuous improvement fashion.
People Analytics:
- Confidently articulating and presenting complex data and ideas to a range of stakeholders.
- Working across our organisation to put in place robust data architecture and pipelines.
- Producing analytical insights, using statistical techniques, to evidence findings and produce recommendations.
- Using Excel, Power BI and other programmes to carry out analysis techniques on a holistic range of people metrics.
- Possessing an eye for detail, and a proven ability to visualise data according to good practice and in a way that ensures the findings are easy to understand and interpret.
- Informing and contributing to the design of data collection methods for internal people metrics.
- Through analysis, determining the root cause of current and emerging workforce issues, and drive improvements and innovation.
- Using an agile approach, create products of value iterating improvements over short sprints of time.
Person specification
We are looking for the following, which will be assessed at sift and interview. Please refer to this section and the elements in bold when writing your personal statement.
- Extensive Strategic Workforce planning experience to be able to forecast and model the future workforce based on current and historic trends.
- Extensive data visualisation skills and experience of Microsoft PowerBI as well as other technologies such as Alteryx or other suitable people data analytical tools or technologies.
- The ability to understand wider business objectives and stakeholder needs such as our overarching strategies and business plans.
- Strong analysis skills with proven experience in analysing complex data to tell a compelling story.
- Experience with blending multiple data sources to tell a compelling story.
- Excellent project management skills to effectively manage multi-strand and cross government projects.
- Impactful communication skills to consult and influence key stakeholders and also provide support and mentoring.
- Close attention to detail as data accuracy and protection are vital - you will champion our safe data principles.
- Autonomous working to tight deadlines through effective prioritisation of tasks and workload, managing stakeholder expectations.
- Good problem-solving skills to identify clear solutions.
- CIPD qualified, or a willingness to work towards this.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Strategic Workforce Planning and Modelling
- HR Analytics Tools and Software
- Storytelling through Analytics
- Contextualising Data with Business Objectives
Benefits
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
We celebrate diversity...
As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk
Where will you be working?
You will be aligned to our Cardiff office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage.
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Selection process details
In your application form we’d like you to:
- Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements.
- Write a personal statement of 1250 words: the panel will be sifting applications against the below criteria (taken from the person specification) so please demonstrate:
- Extensive Strategic Workforce planning experience to be able to forecast and model the future workforce based on current and historic trends.
- Extensive data visualisation skills and experience of Microsoft PowerBI as well as other technologies such as Alteryx or other suitable people data analytical tools or technologies.
- The ability to understand wider business objectives and stakeholder needs such as our overarching strategies and business plans.
- Strong analysis skills with proven experience in analysing complex data to tell a compelling story.
At sift candidates will be assessed against Experience and are asked to supply a work history and personal statement. The personal statement should cover the elements listed in the person specification and above in bold.
At interview candidates will be assessed against the Technical elements listed in the advert and we will use Success Profiles: Technical.
We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as names and dates) from your employment history and personal statement.
We understand that you might use AI and other resources for your application; however, please ensure all information you provide is factually accurate, truthful, and original and doesn’t include ideas or work that isn’t your own. This is so that your application is authentically and credibly your own.
What will the process look like?
- Once the advert has closed we will sift applications - this involves reading through them all, please bear with us as this can take some time.
- Successful candidates from the sift stage will be invited to attend a virtual interview.
Companies House uses a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you. We use the Success Profile framework.
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.
Existing Civil Servants
We welcome applications from existing Civil Servants in other Government departments - however please be aware that this post is a 12 month fixed term opportunity, and if you are an existing Civil Servant your application will generally only be considered on a loan basis. Prior agreement to being released on loan must be obtained from your current department before starting the application process. The terms and conditions of any loan agreement are agreed between the home and host departments and you (as the Civil Servant). If you’ve got any questions or concerns about this, please do get in touch with us at recruitmentCH@Companieshouse.gov.uk.
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Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Companies House holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jon Shenton
- Email : jshenton@companieshouse.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk
Further information
Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission .
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