Business Process Mapping Business Analyst

Business Process Mapping Business Analyst

Minnesota - Business Analyst

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Role: Business Process Mapping Business Analyst

Location: Hybrid in St. Paul, MN

Rate: $70.92-$76.83/hour W2, dependent on skills and qualifications

Project Overview:

Background

The client is replacing the current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP system), People Soft with the Workday ERP system. The client implemented its current system in 2000 that contains significant customizations to support internal processes. The client completed a needs assessment of the current system and processes to identify key opportunities for improvement in the new system. Workday was selected after a competitive solicitation process (RFP) was completed.

You can learn more about the Workday ERP system here:

Project Objectives

• Move to a modern, cloud-based system with improved functionality compared to current systems.
• Leverage standard functionality and align processes with best practices, when possible, to minimize customizations.
• Become more efficient in operations and citizen service.
• Develop integrations between the new ERP system and other systems to facilitate efficient data transfers and processes.

In-Scope

• Replacement of current People Soft financials modules including procurement.
• Replacement of current People Soft human capital management modules.
• Conversion of data from People Soft to Workday.
• Establishment of system integrations with Workday that are currently used with People Soft.
• Process improvement where alignment with best practices is required.
• Organizational Change Management (OCM)-related readiness assessments, change strategies and training.

Out-of-Scope

• Workday modules that are not needed to replace existing functionality.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understands the business drivers and expected business outcomes.
• Builds trust-based relationships with stakeholders.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders.
• Defines approach and performs activities to “discover”, document, and prioritize stakeholder requirements for assigned module(s).
• Optimize current-state business processes, when possible, in future-state design.
• Collaborate to develop a Responsibilities Assignment Matrix (i.e., RACI).
• Collaborate to develop a stakeholder register.
• Collaborate with the vendor to identify application configuration requirements.
• Logs and follows-through to disposition risks, action items, issues, and decisions.
• Collaborates to develop use cases, scenarios, and test scripts.
• Documents and prioritizes defects and drives remediation efforts.
• Develops and submits status reports.
• Other duties as assigned

Primary Deliverables:

• Business Analysis Approach and Schedule
• Stakeholder Register
• RACI Matrix
• (Prioritized) Requirements Documentation
  • Stakeholder Requirements
  • Technical Requirements/Specifications
  • Application Configuration Requirements
• Process Optimization Recommendations
• Use cases and scenarios
• Test Scripts
• Defect tracking/remediation register
• RAID Register
  • Risks
  • Action items
  • Issues
  • Decisions
• Status Reports (with hours burndown)

Mandatory

Qualifications:

• B.S. or B.A. degree (4 year) (or Associates degree plus an additional 5 years’ experience)
• Demonstrated competency with mapping Human Resource and Finance business processes that contain steps in and outside of systems
• 5+ years experience in working with multiple stakeholder groups to map, document and optimize business processes.
• Experience with interviewing stakeholders and workshops to extract accurate operational…