Functional Business Analyst

Accountabilities:

Provides technical design and support in the UltiPro system as follows:

• Serves as a key business partner and liaises regularly with various functions throughout the organization to obtain necessary information as it pertains to an assigned busiess line.
• Utilizes extensive knowledge of functional processes and current systems expertise to develop and validate new functional business requirements as they relate to an assigned business line.
• Participates in functional team meetings to assess and document business process changes and their impact upon current and future operations.
• Recommends and influences best practice solutions when enhancing business processes, application design and technology enablement.
• Facilitates requirements gathering and documentation efforts as they relate to an assigned business objective.
• Refines functional requirements to include prioritization, elimination and consolidation.
• Documents requirements for internal and external interfaces, data conversion, reporting, workflow and security for business processes for utilization by the Technical Analyst for the management of deliverables.
• Develops TSA specific Functional Use Test Cases and scripts.
• Prepares reports for business units as required
• Identifies, documents and escalates risks and issues to the Director of HRIS.

Manages partnership with ministry units and external clients:

• Serves as the liaison between the HRIS project team and Divisional, Ministry and THQ Departments for the purpose of requirements validation, issue resolution and coordination of project activities.
• Understands and appropriately communicates any resulting impacts to the overall HRIS system as well as existing internal and external interfaces as a result of any system configuration.

Other Responsibilities:

• Work on special projects as required.

Education, Qualifications and Certifications:

• University or college degree in a related field
• Certification as a Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or proven work experience. Certification or in-depth knowledge of payroll processing, time and attendance and human resources

Experience and Skilled Knowledge Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in system and process set-up in fields such as human resources, payroll and/or workforce management.
• Proven Business Analysis experience in detailing process development, planning, requirements gathering, reporting and tracking, especially managing user’s expectations.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation and methodology development.
• Good understanding and technical knowledge of current network and PC operating systems, hardware, protocols, and standards.
• Experience with systems design and development from business requirements analysis through to day-to-day management.
• Knowledge of business processes, management and business office operations.
• Knowledge of SQL and HTML coding with the ability to write and modify is an asset.
• Solid understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to apply technology to resolve business problems.
• In-depth knowledge of Federal and Provincial Employment Standards Act as they relate to System configuration.
• Strong understanding of human resource management principles, practices, and procedures.

Skills and Capabilities:  

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel for handling large volumes of data (Function knowledge specific to: vlookups and index/match, indirect, trims, left, right, mid, substitute, if statements (with or/ and logic)
• Sustained high levels of attention to detail.
• Ability to organize multiple competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Sound analytical skills.