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 ) BCOM, BBA 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
