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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.\nWe 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.\nWorking 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.\nWork with HR stakeholders to identify and resolve data quality issues across legacy systems.\nAssist in preparing data migration files and supporting migration activities.\nSupport execution of three mock data migration cycles and validate migration results.\nPerform data quality assessments and identify inconsistencies, gaps, and anomalies in source data.\nSupport data cleansing activities to improve data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.\nExecute reconciliation and validation checks across migration cycles to ensure data integrity.\nMaintain data quality logs, issue trackers, and remediation plans. \nPartner with HR stakeholders and business users to understand data requirements and validate migration outcomes.\nSupport workshops and data review sessions to align on mapping rules, validation requirements, and sign-off activities. • \nProvide regular updates on data readiness, quality metrics, and migration progress.\nSupport User Acceptance Testing by investigating and resolving data-related issues and defects. • \nPerform post-migration reconciliation and validation activities. •\nProduce data quality reports, dashboards, and migration status updates.\nAnalyse migration outcomes and provide recommendations for data quality improvements.\nSupport reporting on adoption, workforce data accuracy, and system utilisation following deployment.\nMaintain migration documentation, validation evidence, and sign-off records.\nRequirements\nExperience working as a Data Analyst within HRIS, HR, Payroll, ERP, or system implementation projects.\nExperience with data cleansing, data mapping, validation, reconciliation, and reporting activities.\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, anomalies, and data quality issues.\nExperience supporting data migration projects and system implementations.\nAdvanced Excel skills, including data analysis and reconciliation techniques.\nStrong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.\nExperience producing dashboards, reports, and migration metrics.\nAbility to work independently while collaborating effectively across project teams\nBenefits\nAt 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:\nPersonalised 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.\nFlexible 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.\nA Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.\nAt 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. 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