NYCAPS Systems Analyst

City of New York•New York, NY

1d•$100,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

The NYC Financial Information Services Agency - Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) is seeking a NYCAPS Business Analyst responsible for data and application analysis. The role involves collaborating with Business, Development, and Testing teams and learning and documenting business processes. The analyst helps create functional design documents, serves as a liaison between the Department of Education and other City of New York agencies, and works on interfaces and reports between PeopleSoft and other systems. The role also includes reconciling data across systems, reviewing functional specifications with technical staff during the transition to technical design, supporting systems testing, running business-event processing simulations to check for errors introduced by software modifications, and coordinating user acceptance testing with business users.

Requirements

Good communication skills, both oral and written, as well as interpersonal and organizational skills.
Ability to learn and understand new applications.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.
Detail-oriented and able to follow directions.
Ability to learn, write, update, and edit existing documentation.
Ability to work independently, manage deadlines, and track ongoing assignments.
Ability to work with a diverse team and communicate with all levels of staff.

Nice To Haves

Good knowledge of SQL and the ability to write SQL.
Basic programming knowledge in a language such as C, C++, Java, PeopleCode, or SQR.
Good understanding of systems development lifecycle methodologies.
Knowledge of PeopleSoft.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Business, Development, and Testing teams and learn and document business processes.
Work with multiple teams to help create functional design documents.
Serve as a liaison between the Department of Education and other City of New York agencies.
Work on interfaces and reports between PeopleSoft and other systems.
Reconcile data between multiple systems.
Review functional specifications with technical staff during the transition to technical design.
Work with the Testing team during the systems testing phase.
Run simulations of business-event processing to ensure software modifications have not introduced errors.
Coordinate user acceptance test activities with business users.