HR Data Integration Analyst - 12 month FTC in Bristol

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The HR Data Integration Analyst plays a pivotal role in supporting the successful integration of employee and HR-related data following the company’s acquisition. This position ensures that people data from multiple legacy systems is accurately extracted, validated, transformed, and delivered to the acquiring organisation in line with agreed timelines and data standards. This role is responsible for the accurate extraction, validation, transformation, and delivery of employee data during the post-acquisition integration process. The role requires strong analytical capability, disciplined data management, and effective collaboration with regional HR and project teams to maintain data quality and support ongoing data refresh cycles.

• Extract, consolidate, and manage HR and employee data from multiple systems and regional sources.
• Maintain strong understanding of data structures, field definitions, and regional system differences.
• Develop and run repeatable processes for scheduled data refreshes and extracts, including non-migrating data (e.g. leavers, historical records).
• Clean, validate, reconcile, and transform data to meet integration templates and quality standards.
• Identify data gaps and inconsistencies, working with regional teams to resolve issues efficiently.
• Act as a key point of contact for HR and operational stakeholders on data requests, timelines, and dependencies.
• Produce clear reports, dashboards, and visualisations using Power BI and related tools.
• Communicate data risks, quality issues, and progress updates to project and integration leads.
• Maintain clear documentation of processes, mappings, and validation logic.
• Ensure all data handling complies with privacy, security, and internal governance requirements.

• Interprets and analyses complex HR datasets across multiple systems and regions.
• Identifies and resolves data quality issues using structured, analytical approaches.
• Maintains high standards of accuracy in data extraction, validation, transformation, and documentation.
• Strong understanding of data structures, mapping, and integration requirements.
• Proficient in Excel, HRIS reporting, Power BI, and data manipulation tools; SQL advantageous.
• Manages multiple data streams and priorities to meet integration deadlines.
• Builds effective relationships with HR teams and project stakeholders across regions.
• Communicates clearly and professionally to clarify requirements and resolve discrepancies.
• Applies best practices in data security, privacy, and compliance.
• Experience in system migrations, M&A, or HR data integrations is desirable.

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. Our core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are recognised as a ‘disability confident’ employer.

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.