Business Analyst - Workday Implementation

Business Analyst - Workday Implementation - St. Paul, MN

A direct St. Paul, MN client has a need for a Business Analyst Consultant for a Workday implementation. The work will be primarily around Business Process Mapping with additional details as shown below.

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

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 data.
• LOCAL Candidates only

Desired Skills

• Experience as a Business Analyst in state, county, or city governments or non-profit sector
• Experience with Workday system (HCM and FIN)
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, or other business analysis certification
• Lean, Six Sigma, or other business process mapping framework or certification.
• Experience with MS Visio, or other software tools.

Note: Diverse and bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates local to the Twin Cities metro area are REQUIRED. Project is based in St. Paul, MN. Client operates in a flexible work model, and the consultant will be required to be on-site whenever necessary.