Temporary HR Data Specialist

POLITICO is seeking a Temporary HR Data Analyst to support the Global HR team’s data and reporting needs. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented data analyst with experience handling large datasets and working with sensitive information.  

This position will play a critical role in ensuring data accuracy, supporting system configuration, and providing analytical insights to stakeholders both within and outside of the HR organization. Additionally, this role will support data and administrative needs across HR verticals, including compensation, benefits, recruiting, and HR business partnership.  

What You’ll Do 

• HR Data Migration & Integration: Extract, clean, transform, and validate HR data for seamless migration into a new HR system 
• HR System Support: Assist in the configuration, testing, and validation of HR modules, ensuring data integrity and system accuracy
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Develop reports and dashboards to track data quality, identify inconsistencies, and support HR and business leaders
• HR Vertical Support: Provide data and administrative support to HR teams in compensation, benefits, recruiting, and HR business partnership, ensuring accurate data reporting and process efficiency
• Data Governance & Compliance: Handle sensitive employee data with strict confidentiality, ensuring compliance with company policies and data security standards
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with HR, finance, IT, and external consultants to establish a successful collaborative working relationship with each group 
• Process Documentation & Optimization: Help document workflows, data structures, and reporting best practices 

Who You Are 

• Strong data management skills, with experience handling large, structured datasets
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and data visualization techniques
• Experience with HRIS data migration or system implementation (experience with ERP/HR platforms is relevant)
• Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (such as Tableau or Power BI)
• Comfortable working with sensitive data and adhering to strict confidentiality standards
• Detail-oriented, with a strong analytical mindset and the ability to identify and resolve data discrepancies
• Effective communicator, able to translate data insights into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience working with HRIS systems such as UKG (UltiPro) or other enterprise platforms
• Experience working in a corporate, media, or global organization with cross-functional teams

This is a temporary position designed to support HR system implementation and data migration, as well as broader HR data and administrative needs at POLITICO. If you have a passion for data integrity, system implementation, and analytics, we’d love to hear from you!

We are driven by our values. We are relentless contributors, disruptors of the status quo, collaborators, talent cultivators and DEI stewards. Our culture is defined by grit, total integrity and a prioritization on innovation.

We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.

Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here and email us careers@politico.com. We hope to see your application soon!