IT Business Analyst

Paychex is reimagining how businesses manage their workforce by bringing payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services together into a single connected HCM platform. As Paychex and Paycor come together, we’re combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, AI, and human expertise to help organizations work smarter, support their people, and achieve better business outcomes. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to invest in innovation, simplify client experiences, and shape the future of work.

At Paychex, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of something bigger as One Paychex.

Under limited direction, work with business process owners and key stakeholders to identify business process improvement opportunities, elicit business requirements, analyze and evaluate solutions options, and deliver business value through new system and process capabilities.

• Configure, develop and implement functionality from 3rd party applications used company-wide to ensure industry best practices are used to complement Paychex Standards while meeting all defined requirements and business needs.
• Apply a moderate level of ingenuity and creativity in identifying and defining business needs for major technology research and business initiatives.
• Guide the successful completion of major programs or projects. Generally act as a project lead to ensure that project milestones, timelines and overall success criteria are achieved.
• Understand the business objectives, focus, and strategy in order to better align projects, resources, and initiatives within the Corporate Program.
• Define alternative technical solutions and explore the adaptation of policies, procedures, standards, techniques, materials, and equipment to meet specific internal customer needs and provide the best practice technology solution.
• Ensure nominated approaches fulfill business objectives, resolve problem statements and support architecture strategies for all teams involved and facilitate an efficient project process.
• Work with business units to identify appropriate vendor solutions for initiatives. Review vendor statements of work and contracts to ensure they meet proposed objectives.
• Work with Business Units to define and document user stories/success criteria to support the business need.
• Coordinate activities of professional services resources to ensure compliance with timelines and budgets.
• Develop and nurture relationships with supported Business Unit line level managers to build trust and encourage the growth of mutual idea sharing.

• Bachelor's Degree in IT/Business
• 8 years of experience in Systems or relevant Business field experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Product Ownership
  - Preferred
• Scrum Master background
  - Preferred
• PPM or Black Belt in Lean
  - Preferred
• Comfort in presenting in meetings to high level executives
• Problem Solving
  - Preferred
• Communication
  - Preferred
• Verbal Communication Skills
  - Preferred
• Interpersonal Communications
  - Preferred
• Business Process
  - Preferred
• Business Analysis
  - Preferred
• Business Requirements
  - Preferred Project Management
  - Preferred
• Functional Requirement
  - Preferred
• Systems Development Life Cycle
  - Preferred
• System Implementation
  - Preferred
• Technical Support
  - Preferred
• Experience with ADO or JIRA, Claude, MS Office Suite
  - Preferred

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share that the compensation range for this position is typically $64,500.00 - $ annually. This range includes both base pay plus commissions but does not consider other components that make up the total rewards package for the position. If you are hired at Paychex, your overall compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience which may result in total compensation outside of this range.

• Act with uncompromising integrity.
• Provide outstanding service and build trusted relationships.
• Drive innovation in our products and services and continually improve our processes.
• Work in partnership and support each other.
• Be personally accountable…