Job Description
JOB TITLE: Business Analyst
LOCATION: Fully Remote, with work aligned to Central Time
COMPANY OVERVIEW: An established commercial real estate services organization. Our client supports businesses through commercial real estate services and related workplace solutions.
ROLE SUMMARY: This role translates the impact of an organizational transition into business requirements, testing plans, and operational readiness across HR and payroll systems. The Business Analyst will assess process, system, data, and integration changes across Workday and UKG/Kronos, then guide requirements through testing, cutover, and post-transition support.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assess current-state processes and document transition impacts across HR, payroll, benefits, compensation, timekeeping, security, data, and integrations.
- Map upstream and downstream integrations, dependencies, risks, and gaps.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops and interviews to define, validate, and prioritize business requirements.
- Author business requirements documents and functional specifications covering process flows, data conversion, configuration, integration, security, reporting, and compliance needs.
- Maintain requirements traceability, manage change control, and confirm solution designs meet business requirements.
- Define testing strategies and develop test scenarios, test cases, and expected results for unit, integration, regression, parallel payroll, and user acceptance testing.
- Coordinate business testers, track defects and readiness, and support cutover, go-live, and post-transition issue resolution.
- Partner with organizational change management stakeholders on communications, training, job aids, standard operating procedures, and readiness activities.
KEY REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelors degree in human resources, business administration, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of experience as a business analyst, systems analyst, or HR/payroll systems analyst.
- Hands-on experience with Workday, including one or more of HCM, Payroll, Absence, Compensation, or Benefits.
- Experience supporting an entity transition, merger, acquisition, or organizational change.
- Expertise writing business requirements documents and functional specifications.
- Experience partnering with IT teams on system configuration, integrations, and testing.
- Experience developing test strategies and test cases and supporting user acceptance testing.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
Apply if you have the business analysis and HR systems experience to guide a complex transition from requirements through go-live. This is an opportunity to help deliver accurate, well-tested changes across critical people and payroll processes.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2006 |
About Company
The Intersect Group is a different and better business partner. We create unparalleled value for our clients by combining industry-leading Consulting capabilities with comprehensive Staffing and recruitment services. Clients trust us to deliver results based on our deep expertise and proven resources within finance, accounting, and information technology. Through our flexible delivery approach, you get the right solution, at the right time to accelerate your success and achieve all of your mission-critical objectives.
Skills
Level up your application
Professional resume templates
Browse dozens of recruiter approved resume templates, layouts and formats. Choose your favorite and make it your own in minutes.
Free resume templatesResume Builder
Improve your existing resume or start from scratch and create a standout, ATS-friendly resume. Add job-specific content, download and apply.
Resume Builder