Senior Business Analyst - Payroll and HCM

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SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - PAYROLL AND HCM

My client is in need of a Business Analyst for their payroll/HCM function. This is A 12-month contract. They are rolling out Oracle Cloud – a green field implementation - and need help with some typical BA deliverables to support this implementation and rollout. Things like process diagrams, functional/business/reporting requirements, test case and SOP development to start.
We are in search of a Payroll/HCM Senior BA
Overview
Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy and Transformation, the Senior Business Analyst (Snr BA) will join the Helm and Oracle Project Teams to complete deliverables in support of the Helm and Oracle implementation. A self-starter, expert collaborator, and facilitator, the Snr BA will take direction from the Senior Director, Business Process Owners and the Project Manager to ensure deliverables are clearly articulated, aligned among peers across functional streams, and produced with completeness and quality in mind.

Duties and Accountabilities

• A key contributor on the Helm and Oracle project team, the Snr BA will work closely with the Project Management team and System Integrator (Vendor) to produce project, sustainment, and operational artifacts
• Work with Business Process Owners, operations teams, technical SMEs, and the Vendor to design solutions that meet business requirements and objectives
• Facilitate workshops with business process or functional and technical stakeholders to elicit, analyze, structure, and document requirements
• Using vendor-supplied templates, document functional and technical requirements for process flows, integrations, cross-system data mapping and conversion, and reporting
• Create and complete operational documentation, such as, but not limited to:

o End-to-end, cross-functional process flows across Helm, Oracle, and other systems as appropriate; propose optimization, when possible
o Gap analyses between current and future-state processing

o Standard operating procedures, work instructions, or job aids

• Develop test cases and test scripts that cover all solution design requirements
• Work with the Vendor to ensure integration and user acceptance system-related testing risks and issues are mitigated and resolved
• Post solution go live, perform continued evaluations of end-user adoption and work with end users to identify opportunities for business process improvements
• Document and communicate issues as they arise and proactively recommend solutions

Qualification Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field
• A minimum of 10 years related work experience as a business analyst, system analyst, or technical support
• Experience in a multi-stakeholder environment with stakeholders from different business units and departments
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing HCM and payroll core functions
• Specific Oracle system implementation experience; greenfield implementation a plus
• Experience in the marine industry or transportation logistics is an asset but not a must

Skills, Knowledge, and Required Competencies

• As a natural and self-driven team player, fosters a friendly, team-oriented workplace where employees work safely and productively together
• An expert communicator with strength in collaboration and relationship building, maintains a healthy, open and trusting workplace, with integrity and accountability
• With a passion for service excellence and business enablement, proven ability to deliver on work products that provide measurable business benefit

• A detailed understanding of how business works, and continually develops business acumen through learning and training

• Proven skills in the development of business, functional and technical requirements, current- and future-state process flows, gap analyses, user stories, use cases, traceability matrices, and test scenarios and test scripts. Formal methodology training in these areas is an asset

• Proven experience in business process redesign and, ideally, process improvement

• A key contributor on the Helm and Oracle project team, the Snr BA will work closely with the Project Management team and System Integrator (Vendor) to produce project, sustainment, and operational artifacts
• Work with Business Process Owners, operations teams, technical SMEs, and the Vendor to design solutions that meet business requirements and objectives
• Facilitate workshops with business process or functional and technical stakeholders to elicit, analyze, structure, and document requirements
• Using vendor-supplied templates, document functional and technical requirements for process flows, integrations, cross-system data mapping and conversion, and reporting
• Create and complete operational documentation, such as, but not limited to