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). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:26-23654
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:
- Business requirements documents
- Process maps
- User stories
- Decision logs
- Requirements traceability matrices
- Country-specific delta documentation
- 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
- Recruiting
- 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 workstreams 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.
- Deliverables
- The contractor will be expected to produce the following deliverables throughout the engagement:
- Country requirements assessments
- Process flow documentation
- Functional requirements packages
- Configuration-ready user stories
- Country delta logs
- Decision logs
- 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. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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