Business Analyst, Office of Human Resources

As an HCM business analyst, this position reports to the Director of Enterprise Resource Planning and works closely with the OHC, other BPS teams, and BAIS. This position will analyze HCM core business processes, create gap analysis documentation, define workflows, gather requirements, and evaluate available solutions to assist OHC in supporting the school district needs, with a primary focus on the payroll, and a secondary focus on Core HR, Absence Management, and Time & Labor areas of HCM. Working with cross-functional teams, service partners, and other IT professionals, the successful candidate will frame an integrated solution and translate your conceptual vision using new and existing products. This vision will then be communicated in a clear and detailed design package that includes business requirements, processes, workflow documentation, conceptual data models, use cases, and service requirements. The position will be part of the OHC ERP team responsible for HCM business processes and other duties as assigned., * Analyze HCM business processes, create a gap analysis documentation, define workflows, gather requirements, and provide solutions.

• Responsible for optimizing the payroll business processes and configuration support, validations, identifying potential risks, and building a contingent plan to mitigate the errors/risks.
• Perform daily audits to maintain the data integrity of all HCM modules.
• Ability to assess, optimize, design, and document complex business processes and functions.
• Implement collective bargaining agreement rules in HCM, primarily focusing on Payroll, Absence, and T&L changes.
• Collaborating with HR users to maintain the Salary Admin plans, Grades, and Steps, and perform a Mass salary load to reflect the comp changes to employees.
• Ability to write SQLs or use data analysis methods to identify Job transfers, position changes, departmental transfers, and Seniority calculations.
• Responsible for supporting third-party integrations with the HCM system that includes any bolt-on applications.
• Responsible for identifying payroll errors ahead of time, loading additional pay, calculating retro pay, providing additional validations to support the payroll calculations and CI loads as necessary.
• Take ownership of assigned work, providing high-quality deliverables per the project schedule.
• Identify the pros and cons, risks, and benefits of solution alternatives and make recommendations.
• Reviews, analyzes and evaluates business systems and user needs. Documents requirements, defines scope and objectives and formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
• Able to work in a highly collaborative work environment and have responsibility for the end-to-end execution of tasks assigned, including following up with cross-functional teams when necessary.
• Able to translate business requirements into a design document and work with the tech team for the implementation.
• Brainstorm the ideas within the team that improve the HCM accessibility to the school districts and reduce the need for manual workarounds and interventions.
• Willing to learn from mistakes and ensure similar mistakes are not repeated.

• Ability to work in a team collaboratively, work with a data-driven problem-solving approach, and adapt to changing environments.
• Proven problem-solving and analytical thinking, including approaching problems systematically and collaboratively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays when required for critical needs., * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, plus five years of relevant work experience, or a combination of education and experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in PeopleSoft North American Payroll, Compensation, Core HR, and Security modules.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Approval framework, Forms, Dashboards, and Org Charts.
• Demonstrated work experience in complex HCM business analysis and projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to write complex reports using SQL and Query Manager.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft functional data flow, and parent-child relationship in all the modules.
• Experience with the Latest PeopleSoft 8.59+ tools and 9.2 application features.

Qualifications - Preferred:

• Experience with Absence Management and Time & Labor
• Basic understanding of PeopleSoft proprietary programming languages

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