Job Description
Title Business Analyst (ERP System Replacement)
Location Saint Paul, MN (Hybrid)
Duration Long Term
Job Type C2C,W2
Job Description
Primary Responsibilities and Deliverables
Primary Responsibilities:
- Understands the business drivers and expected business outcomes.
- Builds trust-based relationships with stakeholders.
- Collaborates with key stakeholders.
- Defines approach and performs activities to elicit, document, and prioritize stakeholder requirements for assigned module(s).
- Collaborate with implementation vendor to ensure process improvement where alignment with best practices is required.
- Provide best practices to enhance Client access to the features/functions of the Workday solution.
- Collaborate develop a Responsibilities Assignment Matrix (i.e., RACI).
- Collaborate to develop a stakeholder register.
- Collaborate with the vendor to identify application configuration requirements.
- Logs and follows-through to disposition risks, action items, issues, and decisions.
- Collaborates to develop use cases, scenarios, and test scripts.
- Documents and prioritizes defects and drives remediation efforts.
- Develops and submits status reports.
- Other duties as assigned
Primary Deliverables:
- Business Analysis Approach and Schedule
- Stakeholder Register
- RACI Matrix
- (Prioritized) Requirements Documentation
- Stakeholder Requirements
- Technical Requirements/Specifications
- Application Configuration Requirements
- Process improvement recommendations
- Knowledge of domain best practices
- Use cases and scenarios
- Test Scripts
- Defect tracking/remediation register
- RAID Register
- Risks
- Action items
- Issues
- Decisions
- Status Reports (with hours burndown)
Candidate Qualifications
Mandatory Qualifications:
- B.S. or B.A. degree (4 year) (or Associates degree plus an additional 5 years' experience)
- Demonstrated competency with Workday Financial and/or Human Capital Management modules
- 5+ years experience in working with multiple stakeholder groups to elicit, prioritize, and document requirements for a SaaS system
- Ability to document and improve in-scope business processes to realize optimal value
- LOCAL Candidates only
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience as a Business Analyst in state, county, or city governments or non-profit sector
- Ability to contribute to the development and delivery of Workday-related training to multiple stakeholder groups
- CBAP, PMI-PBA, or other business analysis certification
- Note: Diverse and bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
General Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of strategic business analysis processes and techniques; ability to adapt to the needs of the organization.
- Business acumen
- Elicitation skills
- Facilitation skills
- Organizational design and staffing model analytical skills
- Process modeling skills
- Process analysis skills
- Negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Influencing skills
- Proficient in MS Office suite and collaboration tools.
- Has or can quickly earn trust and credibility with stakeholders through empathy, follow through, and transparency.
- Ability to communicate up-down-and-across.
- Analytical, strategic, creative, and systems thinking skills
- Ability to analyze problems and identify/evaluate options.
- Performs at high levels under pressure, even during organizational chaos.
- Coachable; open and receptive to continual feedback
- A diplomatic facilitator, who navigates sensitive conversations with professionalism.
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