Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UKG is a workforce operating platform that helps organizations use workforce insights and AI to improve productivity, trust, and talent outcomes. The Principal, Data/Analytics and Benchmarking will build the analytical foundation for enterprise planning, performance management, and strategic initiative decisions by developing metrics, models, dashboards, benchmarks, and executive-ready recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Define the data, analytics, and benchmarking roadmap for enterprise planning and transformation, prioritizing the questions, metrics, and capabilities that will most improve decision quality
- Establish consistent metric definitions, calculation logic, data sources, and documentation so leaders can rely on a transparent and comparable fact base
- Collaborate closely with Enterprise Systems, Finance, and relevant functional teams to collect and reconcile source data, identify inconsistencies or emerging trends
- Conduct internal and external benchmarking to identify performance gaps, leading practices, and realistic improvement opportunities across functions, products, and operating processes
- Build analytical models, scenarios, dashboards, and scorecards that reveal trends, drivers, sensitivities, and trade-offs relevant to enterprise priorities and investment decisions
- Translate complex analyses into executive-ready narratives and visualizations that clearly communicate the insight, business implication, and recommended action
- Partner with Finance, Enterprise Systems, and functional owners to resolve data quality issues, improve repeatability, and strengthen governance for critical enterprise metrics
- Lead high-priority ad-hoc analyses by rapidly structuring ambiguous questions, integrating multiple data sources, and delivering defensible recommendations under tight timelines
Skills
- 7+ years' experience in enterprise business operations, data analytics, data science, strategic finance, or a related quantitative field
- Demonstrated experience using data and external benchmarks to diagnose business performance, identify drivers and gaps, and develop strategic recommendations
- Advanced analytical proficiency with Excel and data querying, modeling, or visualization tool such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Python, or an equivalent platform
- Proficient in using AI to drive automated reporting and dashboarding
- Demonstrated experience converting complex analyses into executive-ready presentations and written recommendations that are concise, visually clear, and decision oriented
- Experience with SaaS, enterprise software, workforce technology, or comparable business models and performance metrics
- Experience building benchmarking libraries, metric taxonomies, data dictionaries, or governed executive dashboards used across multiple functions
- Ability to pair analytical depth with strategic judgment, intellectual curiosity, and confident communication with senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced degree in analytics, data science, finance, statistics, or a related discipline
- MBA preferred
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan.
- Employees may be eligible to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.
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