HR Senior ERP Business Analyst

Required Qualifications (as evidenced by and attached resume):
Bachelor’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Seven (7) years of full-time business analysis experience in an IT or business environment. Demonstrated experience with requirements analysis/management tools. Proven skills in documentation, spreadsheet and database applications to include proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Word, Visio and PowerPoint).
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in Business, Finance, IT, or related field. PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) ®, IIBA Certified Business Analysis. Professional™ (CBAP®) or IIBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA®) designation. Experience with MS SharePoint and Access.
Professional and Personal Qualifications:
The HRS Senior ERP Business Analyst will have demonstrated experience creating and working in a team culture that is committed to collaborative cross functional relationships and service excellence with a proven strong attention to detail with excellent organization skills. They will demonstrate strong awareness and business understanding regarding the domains that they work in/ with.
The selected candidate will possess the following:

• Proven ability to do a stakeholder analysis, select a project approach and estimate BA effort.
• Demonstrated experience writing requirements documents. Requirements are well formed, cohesive, complete, consistent, feasible, modifiable, unambiguous, and testable.
• Proven understanding of the distinction between requirements: business, stakeholder, solution (functional and non-functional) and transition.
• Demonstrated ability to lead requirements gathering/definition workshops, focus groups and/or process diagramming workshops involving both business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Proven ability to construct business process models.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and utilize decision analysis techniques.
• Proven ability to problem solves by defining basic steps and/or providing examples where techniques were used.
• Demonstrated ability to grasp technology concepts such as database, table driven code, testing tools, security, and/or computer programming concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to assist with the interpretation of requirements into feasible options, considering technical and business constraints, and communicating options to the stakeholders.
• Proven ability to effectively present solution options and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to construct specifications, models, diagrams, and charts to communicate needs to solution designers, developers, and testers.
• Proven ability to maintain and reconcile forward and backward traceability of requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to engage, elicit, validate, and present findings to senior leadership.
• Proven strong verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to convey information to clients, internal and external stakeholders, in a clear and concise manner.
• Demonstrated ability to reduce uncertainty and to manage ambiguity. Deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions.
• Demonstrated experience setting goals and successfully implementing and achieving goals.
• Demonstrated adaptability to adjust to multiple demands/deadlines, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change.
  

Brief Description of Duties:
Collaborates with stakeholders to identify and articulate business and stakeholder requirements, as well as identify the solutions that will maximize the value delivered. This includes interviewing stakeholders, eliciting, analyzing, specifying, and validating business, stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements, and communicating those requirements to solution/development teams through the software development life cycle (Agile, Waterfall, and Iterative). Applies proven communication, modeling, analytical, problem solving, facilitation, negotiation, influence, and leadership skills to ensure stakeholder expectations are met. Produces requirements on medium to large, semi complex Enterprise projects that require planning, elicitation, documentation, analysis, and management of business. Acts as a liaison between the business customer and Information Technology (IT) project team(s) by building cooperative, constructive, effective working relationships with internal and external customers. Ensures IT understands the business and stakeholder requirements and resolves any gaps in understanding. Guides and advises less experienced BAs. Responsible for making an established range of decisions, escalating to management when necessary and updating Project Director/Manager on a regular basis.
In this capacity the incumbent will act as the HRS Project Manager and is expected to lead the ERP project for the University HRS team. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members to deliver projects according to plan. The Project Manager, working with the Project Management Office and the Implementation Partner, will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its lifecycle. The incumbent must motivate and engage the HRS project team to accomplish challenging goals and objectives while managing multiple demands. The incumbent will use communication, presentation, facilitation, and analytical skills and will remain organized with reliable follow-through on tasks. The incumbent will communicate with all levels of stakeholders across the University.

• Business Analyst:
• Responsible for planning and monitoring activities for business analysis activities. Choose a business analysis approach that is appropriate for the change. Performs a stakeholder analysis to determine potential types and areas of impact associated with the change. Build a strong relationship with the project manager to ensure a common understanding of the goals, objectives, and scope of a change initiative.
• Responsible for elicitation of business requirements and related activities. Uses a variety of elicitation techniques to identify the characteristics of the change. Confirms and communicates what the stakeholders' needs are. Identifies and cultivates relationships with key stakeholders; forms and asks probing questions and actively listens to responses.
• Responsible for activities related to business requirements management and communication. Translates business concerns, questions, and desires into clear stakeholder requirements through use cases, process diagrams, functional requirements, and others. Defines relationships between various types of requirements. Traces requirements to business objectives, test cases and solutions. Assesses the value, urgency and risk associated with each individual requirement. Evaluates new and changing requirements for impact to projects. Works with stakeholders to reach approval and agreement on requirements. Acts as a liaison between the stakeholder and project team(s) to ensure understanding of the requirements will result in an effective solution.
• Responsible for requirements analysis and design definition. Analyzes the needs to recommend a solution or a range of solutions. Analyzes and quantifies the potential value of the solution options. Models and/or tailor requirements so they are understandable and usable by each stakeholder group.
• Coordinates and facilitates meetings with representatives from all levels of the organization, vendors and regulatory agencies as required to support planning, validation/acceptance, and final deployment processes.
• Provides support, mentoring and guidance to project teams and incumbents.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management.

• Project Manager:
• Direct and manage project/program development from beginning to end.
• Work with the HRS project team to ensure the successful delivery of HRS deliverables for the ERP project through the entire project lifecycle by defining scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals.  Effectively lead and facilitate meetings with a variety of groups, including project team and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans including project documentation. Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals, making sure they are in line with business objectives. Draft, submit and manage budget proposals and further define aspects of the project, arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel to the project team, including external consulting help when needed.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with HRS team members and other stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, quality, and integrity of the information, while providing consistency in content.  Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel. Identify and proactively resolve issues and conflicts within the project team. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths. Manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devise contingency plans.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Define and track project success criteria, including milestones and deliverables. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations. Determine the frequency and content of status updates from each working team in the project, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Ensure all HRS artifacts are created and signed off at appropriate times based on the PM Framework.  Navigate project hierarchy to facilitate decision-making, issue escalation or resolution, and status communication within the project.
• Maintain monthly updates for HRS leadership; integrate project specific calculations and metrics, define KPIs, and conduct a risk assessment for the ERP project.
  
  

Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. This is a full-time appointment. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.
This position may be eligible for alternative workplace arrangements/telework (remote or virtual) or hybrid.
For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.
This position will remain posted until filled or for a maximum of 30 days. An initial review of all applicants will occur two weeks from the posting date. For full consideration, applications must be received before the initial review date. If within the initial review no candidate was selected to fill the position posted, additional applications will be considered for the posted position; however, the posting will close once a finalist is identified, and at minimal, two weeks after the initial posting date.
Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.
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