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Summary:

• The Senior Business Analyst leads high profile complex projects by working with key stakeholders to evaluate the HR business needs and propose comprehensive solutions that will improve organizational efficiency, increased automation opportunities, and reduce organizational risk in a highly regulated environment.
• The position gathers requirements, creates business requirements documentation, and works with a team to deliver solutions that align with business requirements while ensuring integrity of system data and compliance with all regulatory guidelines.
• The Senior Business Analyst will also take part in scoping several inter related initiatives while helping senior-level leadership make informed decisions about the initiatives.
• The results-oriented position provides excellent customer service and standards in support of the organizations mission.
• The Senior Business Analyst act as the link between our technical capacities and our business objectives working to improve business efficiency with cost effective technical and procedural solutions.
• The position is also responsible for providing leadership and support for critical enterprise applications and integrated solutions.
• This is a Hybrid position where you will work in the office 3 days/week and from your home office 2 days/week.

Responsibilities:

• Manages the full project lifecycle for multiple projects from analyzing requirements to designing, testing, and supporting users on a solution that meet those requirements.
• Documents business requirements based on customer requests to guide development of delivered solutions.
• Collaborates with teams across the organization while evaluating, developing, and delivering solutions. Provides dear communication and progress updates to internal teams and customers.
• Tests, debugs, and evaluates enterprise software upgrade releases reporting issues to vendors and documenting end user training materials and guides.
• Interacts with development tams while reviewing, testing, coding and delivering final projects.
• Extract data from Enterprise databases and other data source to create ad-hoc and organizational reports and dashboards.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field required or equivalent experience

Knowledge/Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience required.
• Knowledge with HR systems; Oracle is preferred.
• Hands on experience with HR system configuration, generating ad hoc reports, HDL file loads, and building interfaces would be an advantage.

Qualifications/Skills:

Required:

• Strong written and oral communication.
• A proven ability to manage multiple project and tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent customer service.
• Experience with project management and associated principles.
• Experience working with users developing business requirements.
• Must be able to work a hybrid schedule where you work 3 days/week in the office and 2 days/week from your home office.

Preferred:

• Experience with HRIS system.
• Experience with HR analytics.
• Working knowledge of SQL and complex databases structures.
• Experience designing, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience working in higher education. Confident with Agile development methodology.