Business Analyst - Workday

A St. Paul, Minnesota client seeks a Business Analyst Consultant for a Workday implementation project. This is a 6-month contract role based in the Twin Cities metro area, with a flexible work model requiring on-site presence as needed for the project.

Responsibilities

• Understand business drivers and expected business outcomes
• Build trust-based relationships with stakeholders
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to discover, document, and prioritize requirements for assigned modules
• Optimize current-state business processes in future-state design
• Develop a Responsibilities Assignment Matrix (RACI) with stakeholders
• Develop and maintain a stakeholder register
• Collaborate with the vendor to identify application configuration requirements
• Log and follow through on risks, action items, issues, and decisions
• Develop use cases, scenarios, and test scripts
• Document and prioritize defects and drive remediation efforts
• Develop and submit status reports
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor's degree (4-year) or Associate degree plus an additional 5 years of professional experience

• Demonstrated competency with mapping Human Resource and Finance business processes that contain steps inside and outside of systems

• 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 availability in the Twin Cities metro area

• Preferred

• Experience as a Business Analyst in state, county, or city government or non-profit sector

• 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

• Experience with MS Visio or other business process mapping software tools