Job Title: IT Business Analyst
Location: Parsippany NJ
Duration: 912 months with possible extension or conversion
Job Description:
- They are seeking an IT Business Analyst or HRIS Business Analyst with experience working closely with HR teams supporting their needs and writing use cases and user stories.
- While Dayforce experience is ideal they prioritize candidates who can provide an inperson whiteglove experience in a hybrid setting rather than hiring a fully remote candidate just for Dayforce expertise.
What youll be doing:
- Data Analysis and Process Optimization: Partner with functional teams (for example HR Sales and Commercial teams) to gather and analyze business process/data to identify needs and recommend solutions. Analyze industry trends and best practices.
- Identify value driven opportunities and drive POCs with clear outcomes: Identify improvement opportunities to advance individual and organizational capabilities; partner with third parties to articulate high level solution requirements ensuring stakeholder alignment; when appropriate plan & lead proof of concepts to validate solution.
- Requirements gathering and documentation: Translate stakeholder needs into clear wellstructured requirements including functional specifications practitioner stories and process flows.
- Drive data driven decisionmaking to enhance fit for purpose business processes: Assist functional managers in making decisions based on data insights enabling the organization to improve digital acumen; Define outcomebased business process transformation; explore and implement opportunities for process automation.
- Champion Change Management: Understand process change required to adopt new technology effectively communicate benefits and drive organizational change management; motivate affected individuals to embrace change.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks of change and recommend mitigations.
- Champion for Standardization: Drive standardization by leveraging of out of the box system and simplification of existing processes.
What youll bring to the table:
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related field with minimum of 3 years relevant experience or relevant work experience.
- Experience should include work as a business analyst with one or more functional areas.
- Strong knowledge of business applications such as SAP other ERP systems or other contemporary technologies
- Knowledge of Agile Waterfall and/or DevOps methodologies a plus
What will enable your success:
- Collaborates with stakeholders effectively; asks thoughtful questions to identify shared interests experiences or other common ground
- Strong analytical presentation and interpersonal skills including active listening
- Robust diplomatic skills and ability to help team members see value opportunities and risks beyond their own area of expertise strong business acumen
- Ability to enable business culture and technology change in a dynamic operating environment; adjusts thinking and behavior resiliently and uses experience to fuel growth
- Dynamic curious learner with desire to understand new perspectives and opportunities to explore new ways to solve problems
- Ability to drive accountability within the team and with peers and stakeholders
- Knowledge of trends and contemporary technology advancements
- Attentive to detail but able to see the big picture