Business Analyst-2

Job Summary

• The Workday Finance Business Analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and systems.
• The business analysts primary responsibility is to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Under general direction of Finance Business, directs analysis activities for high-priority projects requiring high degree of understanding their business strategies.

Essential Duties

Workday System Administration & Support:

• Perform Workday administrative functions including business process and tenant configuration.
• Provide postproduction support within PSA/RM, including Financials, Projects, Resource Plans and Pools, and Resource Forecasts and Budgets.
• Understand the overall PSA and RM functionality within Workday.

Requirements Gathering & Analysis:

• Prepare for and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis.
• Work with stakeholders to define and prioritize requirements, assumptions, and constraints.
• Organize, model, and specify requirements with appropriate detail.

Process & Solution Documentation:

• Write clear and concise requirements specifications.
• Decompose high-level requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Develop and maintain documentation during creation, implementation, and enhancement of financial processes and solutions

Agile & Project Participation:

• Apply Agile methodologies (Scrum, Scaled Agile, Kanban) and lead Agile ceremonies.
• Participate in Go/No-Go decisions and document outcomes.
• Conduct change management processes and ensure traceability for team releases.

Change & Issue Management:

• Manage issues and changes to baselined requirements using change control processes.
• Ensure traceability of requirements to project goals, development, and testing plans.

Other duties as assigned: Support additional initiatives and responsibilities as needed to advance organizational goals.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree (required) or equivalent experience.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) (preferred)

TECHNICAL/SOFT SKILLS

• Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise software products are positioned and developed.
• Knowledge of defect tracking processes and tools
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a highly collaborative environment
• Proficient in MS Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
• General knowledge of business and IT systems
• Strong attention to detail, motivation, and initiative
• Listening, observation, and oral communication skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say.
• Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops.
• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to manage rapidly changing information.
• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders
• Time management skills, to manage multiple tasks and responsibilities.
• SDLC knowledge - Agile Scrum
• Understanding of basic Accounting or business processes

EXPERIENCE

• Two to four years of Workday experience
• Minimum of five years of business analysis experience working in a development environment
• Experience in Workday Financials, specifically Projects, Resource Plans, Pools, and Forecasts, and Budgets