The Group
Morningstar’s corporate functions play an essential role in supporting our company’s strategic initiatives, day-to-day operations, and infrastructure. The People and Culture team is the steward of Morningstar’s unique culture. We design and deliver the end-to-end programs and experiences that support the entire talent lifecycle. By helping our employees succeed, we contribute to Morningstar’s growth and success.
The Role
The Talent Acquisition Operations Analyst plays a key role in driving process excellence, data integrity, and technology optimization for the India region. You will serve as the process and technology SME for India TA—ensuring our systems, analytics, and governance practices enable an efficient, high-quality hiring experience for candidates, recruiters, and business leaders. Reporting to the Director of Global Talent Acquisition Operations, this role focuses on identifying opportunities for process standardization, improving efficiency, and implementing solutions. You will collaborate with the Director, Talent Acquisition, India region, and across People & Culture functions to enable process optimization, technology enablement, and an improved User experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Director, Talent Acquisition Operations to establish, refine and document global talent acquisition processes that improve recruiting workflows, reduce manual work, and ensure consistent candidate experience. Includes requirements gathering, leading user design sessions, UAT and deployment.
- Serve as a Workday subject matter expert for global Talent Acquisition teams, supporting our roadmap of enhancements in partnership with the Workday team. Manage day-to-day questions and issues.
- Design and maintain the recruiting playbook for India, ensuring that recruiting teams understand and adhere to TA processes and compliance requirements. Implement governance practices through periodic audits.
- Identify and document reporting and/or dashboard needs and assure insights are delivered to TA, business, and HR leaders.
- Monitor errors and defects in tools, processes, and technology to identify root cause issues. Partner with Workday and IT teams to resolve/implement improvements.
- Support recruiter enablement through configuration, testing, training, and documentation of processes.
- Collaborate across COE’s to minimize organizational silos, integrate future state plans, and streamline communications. Support internal communications and training to drive awareness and consistent adoption of TA processes and systems.
- Assist with vendor management and evaluation of new TA technology solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working in talent acquisition operations, HR Information Systems, or related.
- Demonstrated expertise in specific areas of TA or HR operations which include but are not limited to talent acquisition technology, candidate/manager experience and data insights and analytics.
- Proficiency working with Workday Recruiting or equivalent ATS, as well as related tools.
- Proven success in identifying, designing, and implementing process improvement; good command of data and analytics.
- Ability to present data and influence key stakeholders, establishing credibility and building trust with team and internal clients.
- Knowledge of India labor laws and data privacy practices related to recruiting.
- Effective communication, organizational and project management skills.
- Four-year degree preferred.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition operations, HR information systems, or a related field
- Expertise in talent acquisition technology, candidate or manager experience, data insights, and analytics
- Proficiency with Workday Recruiting or an equivalent applicant tracking system and related tools
- Experience identifying, designing, and implementing process improvements
- Strong data and analytics skills
- Ability to present data and influence key stakeholders
- Knowledge of India labor laws and recruiting-related data privacy practices
- Effective communication, organizational, and project management skills
- Four-year degree
What the Team is Saying
Morningstar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Employer 401(k) matching and access to Morningstar retirement‑planning tools are prominent features of the package. These elements create a strong foundation for long‑term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible time off, paid holidays, sick and personal days, and a paid sabbatical every four years provide generous time away from work. Sabbaticals are specifically highlighted as a standout perk.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks for primary caregivers, up to eight weeks for secondary caregivers, and at least six weeks of paid caregiving leave offer robust family support. Some materials also note adoption assistance and related resources.
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What We Do
We are a global investment research and financial data company with 40-plus offices across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our products and services are used daily by individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and institutional investors. We provide data, research, and analysis across managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. The financial system can have real barriers—hidden information, friction that can slow decisions, and forces that can limit transparency and access. We work to remove them, bringing independent research, connected data, and investor-first tools to a system that needs more clarity. The people doing this work span research, technology, design, product, sales, and functional areas. We build many of our products in-house, so the work can connect directly to the tools investors use to make real financial decisions.
Why Work With Us
Morningstar’s missing is to empower investor success. We can only do that if our people feel empowered. That means finding people who think independently, bring a wide range of backgrounds with analytical rigor and genuine intellectual curiosity to the work.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Across most of our offices globally, employees work four days a week in the office and one day from home. We recognize that life doesn't always fit a fixed schedule and offer programs that can help provided increased workplace flexibility.
