Business Systems Analyst – Payroll Systems
| Company | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
|---|---|
| Location | San Carlos, CA, USA |
| Salary | $124000 – $186000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of Payroll applications design and implementation experience in a rapidly scaling organization.
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in Workday configuration, business process customization, report writing, and integrations using Workday tools.
- Best practice knowledge of Payroll and Absence Management processes.
- Ability to distill and simplify complex business requests into clear and actionable projects, with a proven ability to navigate ambiguity and to persevere through project road bumps.
- Strong interpersonal skills to establish strong partnerships with business stakeholders and technology teams.
- Organized, methodical, and detail-oriented, with a passion for data analysis and problem-solving, leveraging organizational awareness to empower others to accomplish project objectives.
- Comfortable taking on additional job responsibilities as needed, demonstrated willingness to get involved in the details to achieve the team’s end goals.
- Experience in Agile methodologies.
- Security and compliance awareness for enterprise data management.
Responsibilities
- Gather & analyze business requirements: Working closely with the Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards teams to understand their business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
- Document & prioritize business requirements: Document business requirements clearly. Create user stories and use cases. Assess prioritization of requests based on business impact, ease of delivery, ROI, and compliance.
- Design solutions: Translate business requirements into technical specifications. Consider out-of-the-box/best practice application configuration options and, if needed, customizations/enhancements to the application.
- Implement Solutions: Work closely with the IT team to develop, test, and deploy solutions. Coordinate activities with the business teams to test solutions and ensure solving for the desired business outcomes.
- Manage demand and projects: Prioritize demand, create project plans, monitor & communicate progress throughout the project lifecycles.
- Collaborate: Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Explain technical and application capabilities to the business teams. Translate business requirements to the technical teams.
- Stay up to date with technology trends: Continuously learn new features and trends within the Workday ecosystem, recommending potential enhancements to the system.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday certification(s) are preferred.
- Consulting experience is preferred.
- Workday Adaptive Planning integration experience – data loader, publishing plans is preferred.