Business Analyst

Immediate need for a talented Business Analyst
. This is a 06 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Minneapolis MN (Onsite).

Job
-23654

Pay Range: $60 - $64/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements Elicitation & Business Process Discovery
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions with HR, Payroll, Talent, Recruiting, and operational stakeholders across multiple countries and regions.
• Facilitate workshops to understand current-state business processes, regulatory requirements, policy variations, and operational needs.
• Identify differences between country-specific requirements and established Workday design standards.
• Conduct gap assessments and document business process, policy, and system impacts.
• Drive discussions to resolve ambiguity and obtain stakeholder decisions required for delivery.
• Functional Analysis & Documentation
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and configuration-ready requirements.
• Create and maintain:
• Process maps
• Requirements traceability matrices
• Test scenarios and acceptance criteria
• Ensure requirements are clearly understood by configuration analysts, integration teams, and testing resources.
• Maintain complete traceability from business requirement through implementation and testing.
• Global Stakeholder Leadership
• Serve as primary liaison between regional business stakeholders and implementation teams.
• Coordinate discussions across Europe, APAC, and North America to achieve alignment on global processes.
• Facilitate working sessions, solution reviews, design reviews, and decision forums.
• Escalate unresolved decisions and risks to program leadership.
• Build consensus among stakeholders with competing business, regulatory, or operational needs.
• Workstream Coordination
• Coordinate requirements activities across multiple functional areas, including:
• Core HCM
• Onboarding
• Talent
• Compensation
• Time and Absence
• Payroll
• Learning
• Maintain and manage a centralized requirements backlog and country delta log.
• Track open issues, risks, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Ensure work streams remain aligned to program milestones and implementation timelines.
• Testing & Readiness Support
• Support development of testing strategies, test cases, and user acceptance testing scenarios.
• Validate that delivered solutions meet documented business requirements.
• Assist in triaging defects and determining root-cause ownership.
• Support deployment readiness activities and transition to production support teams.
• The contractor will be expected to produce the following deliverables throughout the engagement:
• Country requirements assessments
• Process flow documentation
• Functional requirements packages
• Requirements traceability matrices
• Testing scenarios and acceptance criteria
• Status updates and stakeholder communications
• Risk and dependency tracking documentation

Key Requirements and Technology

Experience:

• Must have skills:
  
  - 5 years of business analysis, functional consulting, or HR systems implementation experience.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating requirements workshops with global stakeholders.
• Experience translating business processes into system requirements for enterprise platforms.
• Experience supporting global HR, Talent, Recruiting, Payroll, or Workforce Management initiatives.
• Strong ability to document complex processes and convert business needs into executable requirements.
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders and driving decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Exceptional facilitation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting Workday implementations or major Workday transformation programs.
• Experience working with multi-country HR processes and regional regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting international HR transformations involving Europe and APAC populations.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with Workday HCM, Recruiting, Onboarding, Talent, Compensation, Payroll, Time, Absence, or Learning modules.
• Experience creating requirements for configuration teams rather than performing direct system configuration.

Our client is a leading Banking Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

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