Director, People Data and Reporting

Job Title: Director, People Data and Reporting Company: NTT DATA, Inc. Job Category: SAP SUCCESSFACTORS Roles & Responsibilities: Make an impact with NTT DATA Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive. Metrics \& Reporting * Own the global people metrics catalogue: definitions, calculation logic, and ownership for headcount, attrition, hiring, mobility, diversity, and related measures. * Lead the move from custom report requests to self\-serve reporting, rationalising legacy reports into a small set of governed master reports with role\-based access. * Own management and executive reporting for People \& Culture leadership, the Senior Leadership Team, and Finance, on a consistent monthly and quarterly cadence. * Define the reporting dimensions that must hold across every layer: organisation structure, job classification, location, supervisory hierarchy, and grade. * Ensure historical trends survive organisation restructures and employee ID changes. * Put export guardrails and access controls in place, reducing reliance on uncontrolled data extracts. Data Governance \& Quality * Establish and run the people data governance framework: decision rights, data ownership, stewardship, and a clear RACI across People Analytics, HR process owners, IT, and Finance. * Own the semantic layer standards and data dictionary for people data. * Lead monthly headcount reconciliation with Finance and resolve differences between HR and Finance figures at source. * Build a data quality programme with measurable rules, scorecards, root\-cause fixes, and accountable owners in the HR process teams. * Work with Data Protection and Legal on GDPR and local privacy requirements, including access, retention, and cross\-border data use. * Maintain documentation, lineage, and change control for reports, metrics, and data pipelines. Leadership and partnership * Lead and develop a distributed team across both functions, setting clear priorities and standards. * Act as the senior counterpart to HRIS, IT data engineering, and Finance on reporting and data decisions, including HRIS programme milestones. * Prioritise demand transparently and say no to requests that duplicate governed reporting. * Partner with the Analytics and AI teams so advanced analytics builds on governed, reusable data rather than one\-off extracts. * Build a regular interlock with business and functional leaders to understand their decisions, agree the measures that matter, and turn governed reporting into insight. About NTT DATA NTT DATA is a $30\+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with Work Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Availability: Full time

What You'll Bring * \[15\+] years in people analytics, HR reporting, workforce data, or enterprise data management, with at least \[5] years leading teams. * Global ownership of HR or workforce reporting in a large multinational, ideally at 50,000\+ employees. * Proven delivery of a data governance framework: decision rights, stewardship, data dictionaries, and data quality measurement. * Hands\-on understanding of HR data models, including organisation hierarchies, effective dating, and handling restructures without breaking trends. * Strong experience with SAP SuccessFactors reporting, plus a data lake or warehouse and a BI tool such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik. * Experience working with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), and Snowflake. * Extensive hands\-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including data engineering, lakehouse, and semantic models. * Proven ability to work through disparate data sets from HR, Finance, and other enterprise systems, and bring them into a single, governed semantic layer. * Strong business interlock: experience partnering with business and functional leaders to frame questions, agree measures, and turn reporting into insight that drives decisions. * Experience reconciling workforce data with Finance, including headcount and cost definitions. * Track record of rationalising a report estate and moving users to self\-serve. * Working knowledge of GDPR and data protection requirements for employee data. * Ability to influence senior stakeholders in HR, IT, and Finance, and to hold a line on standards. * Experience leading distributed teams across regions and time zones. * Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, information systems, or business discipline. * Master's degree in analytics, information management, or an MBA. * Data governance certification such as DAMA CDMP, or familiarity with DAMA\-DMBOK. * Experience with an HRIS migration or consolidation, including post\-merger integration. * Experience with data catalogue or lineage tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Microsoft Purview. * SQL skills and familiarity with semantic modelling in Power BI or similar. * Experience defining metrics to external standards such as ISO 30414\. * Experience working with works councils on employee data use. Key Skills: SAP SuccessFactors Salary: $30