Senior HR Analytics, Compliance & Technology Solutions Lead

Company Description

Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets.

The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enables clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

Job Description

The Senior HR Analytics, Compliance & Technology Solutions Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for advancing the organization's people analytics, HR compliance, data governance, and HR technology strategy. Based in Mexico and supporting a global HR organization, this role translates business and operational needs into thoughtful, scalable solutions across systems, data, controls, and processes. The role is fully involved in solution design, including system structure, fields, workflows, integrations, reporting requirements, and the appropriate size and complexity of projects, while partnering with HR Technology team members who may execute configuration and day-to-day system administration.

The ideal candidate combines strong HR technology fluency with analytical judgment and practical compliance and governance experience. They can evaluate a business need end to end, determine whether the right solution is a system change, data or field redesign, process improvement, control, reporting solution, or combination of approaches, and clearly define requirements and downstream impacts. They are comfortable working across countries, functions, and platforms; can bring structure to complex or ambiguous work; and consistently deliver accurate, audience-ready outputs. This role partners closely with HR leaders, HR Technology, Legal, Compliance, IT, vendors, and other stakeholders while maintaining clear ownership, strong follow-through, and appropriate escalation of risks.

Work a schedule aligned with U.S. Eastern Time (EST) to ensure availability and effective collaboration with U.S.-based teams and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

HR Analytics, Data Integrity, and Reporting:

• Develop, maintain, and optimize recurring and ad hoc HR reports, dashboards, and workforce metrics
• Analyze HR data to identify patterns, trends, risks, and opportunities for process improvement
• Partner with HR and business leaders to define, document, and track key performance indicators that support strategic objectives
• Build and validate working dashboard prototypes in Power BI, then partner with IT and data teams to support scalable enterprise implementation

HR Compliance & Auditing:

• Partner with Legal, Compliance, HR leaders, and external resources to monitor and support adherence to applicable employment requirements, including U.S. government contracting requirements where relevant
• Support the continued development and maintenance of a practical HR compliance framework for global locations
• Coordinate HR audit readiness and support internal and external audits through clear documentation, validated data extracts, evidence collection, and remediation tracking
• Establish and monitor HR data governance practices that protect data accuracy, integrity, privacy, and appropriate use across HR systems
• Partner in the development of HR standard operating procedures across the HR function and establish a sustainable review and update process
• Develop repeatable compliance monitoring, audit, and reporting routines that can be maintained across the HR Operations team

HR Technology Strategy & Solution Design:

• Partner with HR Technology team members and functional stakeholders to assess business needs and design scalable, sustainable solutions across HR systems, data, controls, and processes
• Lead solution design and requirements definition for system structures, fields, workflows, security roles, integrations, reporting, and process changes
• Evaluate options and rightsize projects based on business value, complexity, risk, user impact, sustainability, and downstream dependencies
• Translate approved designs into clear functional requirements, decision documentation, test scenarios, and implementation guidance for HR Technology, IT, and vendor partners
• Validate configuration outcomes, data movement, reporting logic, controls, and downstream impacts to confirm solutions meet the intended business need
• Contribute HR technology expertise to cross-functional and global HR initiatives while supporting consistent architecture, governance, and user experience across platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Human Resources, Business Administration, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field
• 7+ years of progressive experience in HR operations, with substantial responsibility for people analytics, HR compliance, reporting, or data governance
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong experience with data visualization tools, such as PowerBI
• Strong HR technology experience, including solution design across core HRIS, recruiting, learning, performance, or compensation platforms. BambooHR experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to define system requirements involving fields, data structures, workflows, integrations, security, reporting, and controls
• Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills, with demonstrated ability to validate data, document logic and assumptions, and translate findings for different audiences
• Demonstrated experience establishing reporting, audit, compliance, technology, or data governance practices in a global or multi-entity organization
• Fluent written and spoken English, with strong communication skills across global and cross-functional teams
• Experience partnering with system administrators, IT teams, and vendors through design, testing, implementation, and stabilization
• High level of integrity, confidentiality, ownership, and professionalism when managing sensitive HR information

Physical and Mental Job Qualifications

• Must be comfortable working in a remote environment
• Must be able to sit for long periods of time
• Must be flexible to work across global time zones and outside standard local business hours when business needs require
• Must be flexible to travel, generally up to 5% of the time

Additional Information

Some of the Benefits We Have Include

J.S. Held understands all our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.

• Our flexible work environment allows employees to work remotely, when needed
• Flexible Time Off policy
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Any offered salary range is based on a wide array of factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, training, location, scope of role, management responsibility, etc.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Please explore what we’re all about at www.jsheld.com.

EEO and Job Accommodations

We embrace diversity and our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal!

J.S. Held is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request for a reasonable accommodation, please email jobs@jsheld.com and include “Applicant Accommodation” within the subject line with your request and contact information.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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