Business Systems Analyst, Payroll Systems

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from curing or preventing disease to improving education and addressing the needs of our local communities. We provide the operational support across our areas of work.

Across our work in Science, Education, and within our communities, we pair technology with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress toward our mission. Our Central Operations & Partners team provides the support needed to push this work forward.

Central Operations & Partners consists of our Brand & Communications, Facilities, Finance, Infrastructure/IT Operations/Business Systems, Initiative Operations, People, Real Estate/Workplace/Facilities/Security, Research & Learning, and Ventures teams. These teams provide the essential operations, services, and strategies needed to support CZI’s progress toward achieving its mission to build a better future for everyone.

As a company we are focused on leveraging technology to help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. In order to support our organization’s focus on the mission, we have a similar mission within our People and Finance Systems team to leverage technology to automate manual processes, constantly innovate to optimize processes, provide first‑class support as well as build solutions to enable scale and execution of the strategies and initiatives of our business partners.

Reporting to the Finance Systems Lead, this role will play a key role in streamlining, securing, and optimizing our Payroll, Planning, and Absence management processes through the Workday platform. You will work closely with the Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards teams and be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, ensuring compliance with IT security standards, and implementing solutions.

• Gather & analyze business requirements:
  Working closely with the Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards teams to understand their business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Document & prioritize business requirements:
  Document business requirements clearly. Create user stories and use cases. Assess prioritization of requests based on business impact, ease of delivery, ROI, and compliance.
• Design solutions:
  Translate business requirements into technical specifications. Consider out‑of‑the‑box/best practice application configuration options and, if needed, customizations/enhancements to the application.
• Implement Solutions:
  Work closely with the IT team to develop, test, and deploy solutions. Coordinate activities with the business teams to test solutions and ensure solving for the desired business outcomes.
• Manage demand and projects:
  Prioritize demand, create project plans, monitor & communicate progress throughout the project life cycles.
• Collaborate:
  Communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Explain technical and application capabilities to the business teams. Translate business requirements to the technical teams.
• Stay up to date with technology trends:
  Continuously learn new features and trends within the Workday ecosystem, recommending potential enhancements to the system.

• 5+ years of Payroll applications design and implementation experience in a rapidly scaling organization.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in Workday configuration, business process customization, report writing, and integrations using Workday tools.
• Best practice knowledge of Payroll and Absence Management processes.
• Ability to distill and simplify complex business requests into clear and actionable projects, with a proven ability to navigate ambiguity and to persevere through project road bumps
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish strong partnerships with business stakeholders and technology teams.
• Organized, methodical, and detail‑oriented, with a passion for data analysis and problem‑solving, leveraging organizational awareness to empower others to accomplish project…