Job Title: Data Analyst Intern – People Analytics
Department: Data Research
Work Term: Winter 2025*
Duration: 4 months (January 2025 – April 2025)
Location: Virtual
Roles: 1
- Full-time availability of 37.5 – 40 hours weekly is required to be eligible for this opportunity.
Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.
Our brand promise -
Makes Work Life Better TM- Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.
Benefits For Students
- Experience working for one of the fastest-growing Human Capital Management technology companies in the world
- Access to Dayforce’s development programs and resources
- Ability to work with as well as create relationships with members across the globe
- Autonomy to bring forth new ideas and optimize existing structures within the organization
- Meaningful responsibilities, enabling you to obtain ‘real-world’ experience
- Dynamic hands-on exposure to multiple business units and stakeholders across Dayforce
Summary/About The Opportunity
Data analysts are the people responsible for evaluating data to develop reports and visualizations that identify trends or analytics that help companies make better-informed business decisions. They are comfortable working with structured data, performing analytics, building appropriate visualizations, and drawing conclusions based on empirical evidence rather than gut feel. They are good communicators that can translate their findings into business-friendly language. As they increase in seniority, their understanding of statistical concepts becomes more important as they will start to use this knowledge to guide their studies and evaluations. Data analysts focus on “What is the data telling me today or in the past?”, Data scientists focus on predicting what will the data be in the future.
Primary Responsibilities/ What You’ll Get To Do
- Develop reports and visualizations from structured data using Power BI
- Prepare datasets by writing scripts in SQL or Python (or equivalent)
- Create standard measures to help our client understand the health and efficiency of their organization. Examples of measures include: Quality of Hire, Turnover, Absenteeism Rate
- Create blog posts to be published on Dayforce’s blog
Qualifications/Skills And Experience We Value
- Knowledge of human resources processes and procedures
- Knowledge of people analytics best practices
- SQL
- Data management
- Power BI
- Strong verbal and written communicator
- Strong organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Learning mindset
- Curiosity
- Ability to interpret statistics
Nice To Have
- Background in I-O Psychology
- Background in Economics
- Experience in Databricks (Python, Scala, R)
What’s in it for you
Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.
Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.
With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.
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