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HR Systems and Data Specialist

Michael Page HRCardiff County, Wales🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 11 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
£50k - £60k/yr
Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

As an HR Systems and Data Specialist, you'll play a key role in managing and developing HR systems to support efficient operations. Your expertise will ensure accurate data management and reporting, helping the organisation make informed decisions.

Client Details

Education

Description

The HR Systems and Data Specialist is responsible for analysing, cleansing, reconciling, and consolidating HR data from multiple sources to create accurate, reliable, and usable datasets. This role plays a critical part in improving data quality across HR systems, identifying inconsistencies, and ensuring HR information is structured and aligned to support reporting, workforce planning, compliance, and business decision-making.

The successful candidate will be highly analytical, comfortable working with imperfect data, and capable of bringing together information from multiple systems and stakeholders to establish a single source of truth.

Profile

A successful HR Systems and Data Specialist should have:

  • Experience working with HR systems and people data.
  • Strong data cleansing, reconciliation, and validation experience.
  • Experience managing large and complex datasets.
  • Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables, Lookups, Power Query, and data analysis techniques.
  • Experience extracting data from multiple systems and combining datasets.
  • Strong problem-solving and investigative skills.
  • Ability to work with ambiguous or poor-quality data and establish reliable outputs.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Experience with HRIS platforms such as Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, SAP HR, PeopleXD, or Dayforce.
  • Understanding of HR processes and employee lifecycle data.
  • Experience supporting HR transformation programmes.

Job Offer

Salary: c£50,000-£60,000 (Dependant on experience) + Great Benefits

Location: Cardiff - Hybrid - 2/3 days in the office

Contract: 12 Month FTC - ASAP start

Skills

HRIS
Stakeholder Management
SuccessFactors
Workday
Workforce Planning

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