Workday HR Systems POD Lead

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated•Chesterfield, MO

8d•$107,060 - $159,390•Remote

About The Position

Leads evaluation of business requests to determine requirements, feasibility, and recommend business solutions. Contributes to functional 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. This role is remote, candidates must be located in the USA.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience required
8+ Years IT-related experience, such as Business Analysis, Data Analysis, etc. required
Experience in Workday Configuration required
Lead an Agile/Iterative project team in the role of business analyst. required
Knowledge of programming languages, project management, and application or systems development methodologies required
Maintains a working competency of technology stack associated with project solutions. required
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. required
Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills. Advanced data analysis skill. Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions. required
Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously. Advanced ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. required
Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management. Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills. required
Ability to be flexible when needed, take initiative, and demonstrate accountability. Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions. required
Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects. Advanced interpersonal skills. required
Basic SQL query writing skills and other technical acumen required

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) preferred
Requirements management tool experience (Azure DevOps or others) preferred
Workday Pro certification preferred

Responsibilities

Conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members prioritizing work within an iteration and targeted release for their functional area.
Document the clients’ business needs in the form of user stories.
Creates business process and technical diagrams for shared understanding.
Configure some business process changes and lead testing design across business and IT teams
Oversee the technical work from other team members and translate customer impact to the business
Conduct grooming sessions with full team (users, developers dba’s, needed IT partners, etc.); Facilitate technical grooming session with development team to document technical support stories.
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.
Partner with Functional Leads and the Analytics team to ensure technical solutions can be measured and tracked.