Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Business Analyst role focuses on coordinating daily business analytics activities and managing Workday data to ensure smooth operations. The position involves data analysis, quality assurance, and collaboration with HR and IT teams to identify and resolve issues. The candidate must be flexible with working hours, including Sunday evenings, and possess strong analytical and communication skills. Experience with Workday and HR data is essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and organize daily business analytics activities and oversee Workday data.
- Review colleague data to ensure smooth data flow from source systems to boundary systems.
- Report issues or trends discovered through analysis and collaborate with HR and IT teams.
- Perform data review and quality control to ensure data accuracy and efficacy.
- Ensure systems meet business requirements and quality standards through analytics best practices.
- Participate in defect triage meetings and complete various testing phases.
- Involved in after-hours deployment efforts and post-deployment verification testing.
- Develop testing solutions to increase team efficiency.
- Perform other assigned duties and projects.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred with a minimum of three years of work experience in data quality assurance.
- Experience with HR data and technology.
- Knowledge of QA testing methods.
- Minimum of two years of experience with Workday.
- Experience in an agile/Sprint model is a plus.
- Ability to perform root cause analysis.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
- Expertise in Microsoft Office applications.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to make presentations and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Willingness to work on Sunday evenings.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Description
Position: Business Analyst
Location: Fully remote
Duration: 06+ Months (with possibilities of extension)
Shift: Flexible
Note:
- Requires Sunday evening work (1 3 hours).
- Flexibility offered to adjust hours during the week (e.g., lighter Mondays or Fridays).
- Total weekly hours will not exceed 40
Position Summary:
- The Business Analyst is responsible for coordinating and organizing daily business analytics activities and overseeing Workday data. Review colleague data before each start date to ensure everything is flowing smoothly from source systems like Workday to boundary systems.
- Involved in the reporting of any issues or trends discovered through analysis. Works closely with the Workday HR Information Technology, HR operations and business teams to review data, conduct structured data analyses, and give feedback. This role requires experience in conducting data analysis, some data QA procedures, documenting & communicating discoveries and trends.
Essential Functions:
- Performs data review on a structured and ad-hoc basis, looking for pre-established variances and ensuring data accuracy.
- Utilizes multiple data sources to conduct data quality control to ensure data efficacy between systems.
- Ensure systems meet business requirements and quality standards through analytics best practices.
- Collaborates with business and IT teams and participates in defect triage meetings.
- Completes test planning, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, along with troubleshooting concerns addressed and debugging.
- Involved in after-hours deployment efforts and post-deployment verification testing.
- Develop testing solutions for teams to increase efficiency.
- Performs other duties and projects assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree preferred with a minimum of three (3) + years of work experience in data quality assurance.
- Experience with HR data and technology
- Demonstrates some knowledge of the QA testing methods
- Minimum of two (2) + years of experience with Workday
- Experience working in an agile/Sprint model is a plus.
- Demonstrates ability to perform root cause analysis.
- Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail and ability to compare data between multiple sources
- Expert skills in computer terminal and personal computer operation; Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to make informal and formal presentations, inside and outside the organization; speaking before assigned team or other groups as needed.
- Ability to work on Sunday evenings (take off early during the remaining week)
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines in fast paced, dynamic environments.