Workday Security Business Analyst (Remote) - HR Information Systems

Position Summary
Evaluates business systems and how they align with customer needs. Performs tasks to achieve an understanding of business change needs, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing, documenting, and managing requirements for assigned projects, and then supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Evaluates new functionality for release management and provide testing support.
• Defines Workday technology requirements.
• Prepares business cases working with university partners.
• Ensures business opportunities and objectives are clearly articulated.
• Plans modeling techniques to be used in requirements analysis (scope, process, rule, data, interface models, etc.).
• Performs feasibility analysis as required for projects.
• Analyzes, designs and executes.
• Serves as level three support for escalated inquiries, testing and special projects that require deep technical expertise.
• Provides Workday assistance with complex issue/configuration support/enhancements.
• Creates and maintains foundation data model values while keeping data aligned across the platform.
• Implements strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements.
• Performs requirements elicitation using techniques per plan.
• Documents requirements, establishes scope and objectives and determines strategy for evaluating requirements implementation in systems to achieve business goals.
• Performs current state analysis and/or root cause analysis as required.
• Prioritizes requirements working with university partners and creates conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.
• Organizes requirements by release and other needed categories and sets up traceability matrix; articulates requirements relationships and dependencies.
• Translates and simplifies requirements for appropriate use; performs gap analysis.
• Performs requirements management and communication; apply best practices for effective communication and problem-solving.
• Works with project management to obtain requirements approvals per project plan; facilitates go/no go decisions.
• Validates requirements throughout process per plan.
• Uses requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests.
• Builds knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications to help the business address changes through technology leadership.
• Partners with business to implement solutions that meet the distinctive challenges of the institution.
• Takes on assignments for small to medium projects and others as assigned.
• Helps monitor the technical team solution to ensure requirements fulfillment and solution evaluation.
• Leads and coordinates activities associated with requirements management vehicles.
• Coordinates activities with other business analysts.
• Enables process improvement and/or reengineering.
• Participates in recommending and implementing continuous improvement plans for business analysis measurement.
• Supports Workday data governance policy and processes; perform data quality and compliance audits.
• Develops requirements adoption metrics and other methods of evaluating the long-term performance of the solution.
• Reviews and monitors the effectiveness of business analysis via test results.
• Provides status reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent combination of experience, certification, and education.
• Two years of relevant experience analyzing business processes and data.

Grade
G13

Salary Range
$64,700.00 - $110,500.00 / Annually

The salary range reflects base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade across the University. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions within the same grade and department budget.

Questions

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Accommodation

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Pre-Employment Screening
All external candidates receiving an offer for employment will be required to submit to pre-employment screening for this position. The screenings will include criminal background check and, as applicable for the position, other background checks, drug screen, an employment and education or licensure/certification verification, physical examination, certain vaccinations and/or governmental registry checks. All offers are contingent upon successful completion of required screening.

Benefits Statement

Personal

• Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.

• Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.

• Want to Live Near Your Work and/or improve your commute? Take advantage of our free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees. We also offer a forgivable home loan of up to $12,500 for closing costs and a down payment for homes in eligible neighborhoods.

• WashU provides eligible employees with a defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%.

Wellness

• Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!

Family

• We offer 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child. Family care resources are also available for your continued childcare needs. Need adult care? We’ve got you covered.

• WashU covers the cost of tuition for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.

For policies, detailed benefits, and eligibility, please visit: https://hr.wustl.edu/benefits/

EEO/AA Statement
Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity and especially encourages applications by those from underrepresented groups. It is the University’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access to persons in all job titles without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

Diversity Statement
Washington University is dedicated to building a diverse community of individuals who are committed to contributing to an inclusive environment – fostering respect for all and welcoming individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Individuals with a commitment to these values are encouraged to apply.