Business Analyst

A 12-month contract position is available for a Business Analyst to support a Workday implementation in St. Paul, Minnesota. The role focuses primarily on business process mapping, working closely with stakeholders to document current and future-state processes, define system requirements, and drive the implementation forward.

Responsibilities

• Understand business drivers and expected business outcomes.
• Build and maintain trust-based relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
• Discover, document, and prioritize stakeholder requirements for assigned modules.
• Map and optimize current-state business processes for Human Resources and Finance functions.
• Collaborate to develop a Responsibilities Assignment Matrix (RACI) and stakeholder register.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and facilitate workshops to extract accurate operational data.
• Work with the vendor to identify application configuration requirements.
• Develop use cases, scenarios, and test scripts.
• Log and track risks, action items, issues, and decisions to resolution.
• Document and prioritize defects and coordinate remediation efforts.
• Develop and submit status reports.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor's degree (B.S. or B.A.) or Associate's degree plus 5+ years of additional experience.

• Demonstrated competency mapping Human Resources and Finance business processes that span system and non-system steps.

• 5+ years of experience working with multiple stakeholder groups to map, document, and optimize business processes.

• Experience interviewing stakeholders and conducting workshops to extract accurate operational data.

• Local candidate requirement for St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Preferred

• Business Analyst experience in state, county, or city government or non-profit organizations.

• Experience with Workday system (HCM and FIN modules).

• CBAP, PMI-PBA, or other business analysis certification.

• Lean, Six Sigma, or other business process mapping framework or certification.

• Proficiency with MS Visio or other business process mapping software tools.

• Bilingual capabilities.