Analyst - Payroll Support & Data Analysis

We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals.
Job overview and responsibilities

Analyst - Payroll Support & DA will provide analytical support for the payroll as well as operations teams for pay related issues. Incumbent will generate and analyze large data sets using tools such as Foundry, Hadoop, SQL, Python and SAS. Must create interactive visualization reports, mostly using Spot Fire, to identify areas of improvement and offer solutions. This role will interact with various levels of employees in multiple divisions to address pay and efficiency issues. This position will also support all program managers in the team with their process improvement needs.

• Identify and locate relevant data tables, design and build complex queries to pull and join large data sets from various tables
• Use various data mining and data analysis tools to answer important questions related to pay accuracy and also operations efficiency
• Work with management to define relevant performance metrics, track and report regularly and identify concerning trends
• Develop and maintain insightful interactive dashboards that management can use to produce informed business decisions impacting accuracy, efficiency and cost
• Identify root causes of issues impacting pay accuracy and efficiency
• Find opportunities and recommend solutions including system enhancements, process improvements and best practices as needed
• Use complex coding methods to send automated email notifications to various leaders based on their job and location
• Support payroll improvement projects and initiatives