Lead HR Systems Business Analyst
About The Position
Serves as a Strategic Business and Technology partner, helping share product direction, evaluate complex business needs, challenge assumptions and translate ambiguous opportunities into clear actional solutions. Contributes to product vision and strategic direction. Identifies potential efficiency gains in team process/procedures including leveraging innovation where feasible. Fosters mutually beneficial working relationships for business and IT by working closely with end users and application development team. Uses their deep business and technical knowledge to contribute to system capabilities. Acts as a trusted thought partner to HR, IT and leadership stakeholders by bringing forward both insights as well as options to drive recommendations and tradeoffs in order to improve delivery outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS), or equivalent experience
- 8+ Years of IT-related experience, such as Business Analysis, Data Analysis
- Lead an Agile/Iterative project team in the role of business analyst
- Knowledge of programming languages, project management, and application or systems development methodologies
- Maintains a working competency of technology stack associated with project solutions
- Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge.
- Advanced ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
- Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced data analysis skill.
- Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
- Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously.
- Advanced ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management.
- Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills
- Ability to operate independently and to bring structure to ambiguity.
- Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions
- Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects.
- Advanced interpersonal skills
- Basic SQL query writing skills and other technical acumen
- Requirements management tool experience (Azure DevOps or others)
Responsibilities
- Provides day-to-day leadership and direction to analysts and project support resources
- Coaches team members on requirements quality, stakeholder management, solution design and best practices
- Adheres and furthers established standards for documentation, backlog refinement and release preparation
- Conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.
- Assist with prioritizing work within an iteration and targeted release.
- Document the clients’ business needs in the form of user stories.
- Creates business process and technical diagrams for shared understanding of how system capabilities connect across processes data, integrations, reporting, compliance and the user experience.
- Contributes to roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Evaluates new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues and communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions.
- Create defect and enhancement items to be added to the backlog, collaborate with software engineer for mutual understanding.
- Assists in evaluation of business requests to determine feasibility, researches and identifies options.
Benefits
- annual bonus plan
- long-term equity incentive plan
- full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
