HR Data Analyst

Sword is the trusted partner for critical technology. We deliver the operational resilience and practical innovation that are essential for the most demanding enterprise and critical national infrastructure environments. By modernising legacy systems and securing daily operations, our expert teams help vital organisations lower risk, protect operations, and grow safely. Join Sword and you'll be part of a team solving complex challenges, delivering real-world impact, working alongside talented colleagues who care deeply about quality, collaboration and customer success.

We have a newly created opportunity for an experienced HR Data Analyst to join an existing team in one of our Energy Sector customers on a part time basis 3 days per week. This role is offered on a part time basis and can be carried out remotely with occasional travel to their London or Aberdeen offices. We are open to applications from candidates looking for a contract or staff opportunity.

Working closely with HR stakeholders, business representatives, and implementation partners, the role will support data cleansing, mapping, mock migration cycles, testing, and production deployment activities. The HR Data Analyst will provide data analysis, reporting, and quality assurance to ensure data integrity and business readiness.

• Work with HR stakeholders to identify and resolve data quality issues across legacy systems.
• Assist in preparing data migration files and supporting migration activities.
• Support execution of three mock data migration cycles and validate migration results.
• Perform data quality assessments and identify inconsistencies, gaps, and anomalies in source data.
• Support data cleansing activities to improve data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Execute reconciliation and validation checks across migration cycles to ensure data integrity.
• Maintain data quality logs, issue trackers, and remediation plans.
• Partner with HR stakeholders and business users to understand data requirements and validate migration outcomes.
• Support workshops and data review sessions to align on mapping rules, validation requirements, and sign-off activities. •
• Provide regular updates on data readiness, quality metrics, and migration progress.
• Support User Acceptance Testing by investigating and resolving data-related issues and defects. •
• Perform post-migration reconciliation and validation activities. •
• Produce data quality reports, dashboards, and migration status updates.
• Analyse migration outcomes and provide recommendations for data quality improvements.
• Support reporting on adoption, workforce data accuracy, and system utilisation following deployment.
• Maintain migration documentation, validation evidence, and sign-off records.

Requirements

• Experience working as a Data Analyst within HRIS, HR, Payroll, ERP, or system implementation projects.
• Experience with data cleansing, data mapping, validation, reconciliation, and reporting activities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, anomalies, and data quality issues.
• Experience supporting data migration projects and system implementations.
• Advanced Excel skills, including data analysis and reconciliation techniques.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience producing dashboards, reports, and migration metrics.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across project teams

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.