Workday Business Analyst

OVERVIEW

The Business Analyst plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the HR PMO team understands business needs and requirements of multiple stakeholders, evaluating them against their tactical and strategic plans and roadmaps. The Business Analyst possesses analytical skills to evaluate current processes and technical skills to assess systems functionalities. They will elicit, analyze, document, and validate the business needs of project stakeholders. Their duties include interviewing stakeholders, compiling user requirements, and collaborating for solutions for the organization's various business processes. The Business Analyst will also apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help support the development process when custom development is needed, and to ensure that project deliverables are met according to specifications.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand the vision, targets, needs, pain points, and challenges of business stakeholders
• Identify project stakeholders, document roles and responsibilities, and manage their priorities
• Engage with project team and stakeholders to determine goals, scope, and success criteria
• Gather user requirements via 1-1 interviews, workshops, questionnaires, surveys, and site visits
• Document as-is processes using workflows, diagrams, SOPs, matrices, and other techniques
• Describe to-be processes using workflows, diagrams, user stories, and other techniques
• Assist in designing technology solutions to implement business requirements and processes
• Keep up with rapidly changing methodology, techniques, and technology relevant to the BA role
• Assist in conducting research and evaluation of software and services to meet business needs
• Participate in the evaluation of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized
• Maintain a sufficient level of expertise on operation of one or more business units
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, accuracy, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a manner comprehensible to developers, project team, and end-users
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team, using new and existing processes
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; refine as necessary
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements Gathering & Documentation

• Collect, analyze, and validate business requirements for HR systems and process optimization initiatives
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including workflows, SOPs, and user guides
• Ensure alignment between documented requirements and system capabilities, managing version control and updates

Reporting & Analytics

• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards to track HR metrics and KPIs
• Conduct trend analysis on workforce data to identify patterns and inform decision-making
• Generate scheduled and ad-hoc reports for leadership, compliance, and operational needs
• Ensure data integrity and accuracy across all reporting platforms
• Partner with analytics teams to create predictive models for workforce planning and process improvements
• Deliver clear, visually compelling data presentations for executive stakeholders

QUALIFICATIONS

• College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, computer science, engineering, finance, or information systems
• Three to five years of related work experience in business or process analysis and design
• Workday functional experience preferred
• Certification in Business Analysis, Agile, or Scrum preferred
• Ability to create requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
• Understanding of current technologies applicable to different business needs
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of an organization's core business operations and processes
• Experience with requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, and verification
• Collaborative experience on design, development, and implementation of technology solutions
• Ability to apply statistical and other research methods to zero in on issues and root causes
• Understanding of application development and software development lifecycle concepts
• Excellent understanding of the organization's goals and objectives
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

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