General information
Career area Human Resources Work Location(s) 500 Woodward Avenue, MI, 601 S. Tryon Street, NC Remote? No Ref # 20162 Posted Date 06-27-25 Working time Full time
Ally and Your Career
Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do – and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people – with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role’s specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.
The Opportunity
This role is hybrid- in office weekly with some remote days. Charlotte or Detroit location preferred but will consider all Ally internal candidate locations.
The Sr Analyst, Workforce Analytics (Business) is a member of our Workforce Analytics team whose vision is to be a trusted ally for transformative workforce decisions supporting our HRBPs and the business leaders. This individual contributor role will be responsible for strategic reporting, story-building, dashboard modeling, conducting research, analytic projects & experiments with the clear understanding of insights and trends to support our business. We partner with an exceptional technology team and progressive analytics teams in the business to change how work gets done. This individual should be a focused and a critical problem solver, storyteller, learner, and innovator and want to work in an environment focused on using modern big data technology and practices.
The Work Itself
- Understand assigned businesses’ HR strategy (recurring business cycles, needs, and ways of working) to deliver analytical needs accordingly
- Support to define and update the data strategy required to enable the HRBPs to become more data-driven
- Help HRBPs become analytically savvy and confidently tell credible data stories
- Identify data quality issues and report them to COE data stewards, and thereby help improve the quality of data
- Translate analytical outputs into easily digestible and relevant insights
- Partner with HR Advisory organization to understand the depth and breadth of talent insights, trends from the business perspective and incorporate them to support stakeholders
- Utilize data analytics expertise to educate & coach the HR and business users solving right business problems
- Work with stakeholders and translate a business problem into an analytical question(s) and influence analytical design decisions
- Develop compelling, data driven narratives and stories and help in understanding insights or point to make informed decisions
- Become proactive around sharing the relevant insights and support business priorities
- Understand the difference between meaningful insights and noise and use those insights to drive better business decision making
- Knows how to leverage insights created by machine learning, predictive analytics, deep learning, NLP, etc.
- Building collaborative relationships making HR stakeholders and their needs a primary focus of your actions
- Accomplishes some of tasks and duties through the leadership and supervision of others
- Duties and assignments range from routine to more difficult and varied in nature
- Solves problems ranging from routine in nature to those of higher complexity
- Partner closely with COE data stewards and ensure the COEs define right lead and lag metrics to support business; provide recommendations for enhancement in Workday and Power BI as needed
- Partner with HRBPs (and right COE data stewards when needed) to create insights, do research / workforce studies to support business needs
- Gather reporting, dashboarding and scorecard requirements for HRBPs and business leaders and provide reporting support
- Gather external trends and insights and translate them into business context
The Skills You Bring
- 3+ years of data/ business analytics and consulting experience required. Agile environment is preferred
- Experience working with HR data and/ or Workforce Analytics required
- Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in Math, Statistics or Computer Science preferred.
- Experience with Workday Reporting preferred.
- Experience in exploratory analysis
- “Credible Data First” attitude while working with the stakeholders.
- Experience in data quality process and tools to lead data driven approach
- Ability to work under limited supervision, with a strong work ethic and high degree of self-motivation.
- Able to manage competing priorities in a changing environment
- Ability to work in an ambiguous and matrixed environment while demonstrating teamwork and collaboration
- Strong in MS Excel and PowerPoint as tools to convey insights and analyses
- Strong project management skills
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How We’ll Have Your Back
Ally’s compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
- Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on “Doing it Right” and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Base Pay Range
: $85000 – $150000 USDAn individual’s position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer. Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
