Kronos Techno-Functional Analyst

MUST HAVE--- Strong functional knowledge of Kronos modules including:
Workforce Dimensions
Workforce Dimensions Timekeeping
Workforce Dimensions Accruals
Workforce Dimensions Absence
Workforce Dimensions Analytics
CRT s
Reporting
Kronos Integration
Dell Boomi Workforce Dimensions Integration Platform

Overview
The Kronos Techno-Functional Analyst is responsible for ensuring technology solutions address business requirements and achieve the identified business outcomes. This position primarily designs and configures platforms to support business requirements. The job may also document requirements in business requirements documents (BRD), functional specification.
The position has a combination of strong business acumen, application domain knowledge and the ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business language. This role will assist subject matter experts with gap analysis / process definition and system enhancements and will provide a high level of service for break-fix incidents and requests. This role is different than a developer in that it does not code ; the focus is to build a technical solution by taking business requirements and configuring the systems to support the business requirements

Duties and Responsibilities

• Configure and design the respective platform
• Understands emerging technologies and can identify opportunities to automate and standardize business processes.
• Assist with educating the IT team on the goals of the business and assists with facilitating communication and alignment between functions and IT from the gathering of initial requirements to final implementation.
• Manage process conformity, compliance, and is responsible to drive the development of business and technical process documentation and training materials.
• Supports conversion of functional specs to technical specs working with developers
• Drive the collection of required information to develop work scope around solutions to attain business requirements along with data needs as required.
• Serve as liaison between Divisions/Functions and IT on projects and enhancements
• Collect and evaluate information, formulate as well as test hypotheses.
• Can drive technical validity of solution.
• Coordinate issues resolution activities with varied stakeholders
• Review entire problem logs and identify recurring problems.
• Record projects status along with open issues every week.
• Ensure to follow up on problems and process independently related to solutions engineering.
• Participate in seminars, trade shows, and oversee internal demonstration facilities etc.
• Develop meeting structure and present at meetings
• Determine opportunities to redesign business processes to achieve better business results
• Determine opportunities to automate business processes and functions
• Educate the IT team on the goals of the business
• Fill the role of a Solution Lead on a project/Technical Project Manager coordinating with the overall Project Manager on all work for technical teams and oversite on technical design
• Manage process conformity and compliance
• Lead the definition of project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; assist with project budget needs
• Lead the monitoring of project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports, and recommending actions
• Understand, communicate, and reinforce standard business process concepts
• Establish and maintain relationships with team members within IT and across functional teams
• Assess situations, determine the problem(s) and propose a solution that provides value to the business
• Lead business requirements as well-formed user stories and acceptance criteria
• Drive Behavior-Driven-Design (BDD) process
• Gather and document business requirements in business requirements documents (BRD)
• Convert BRD to functional specifications according to the platform being configured
• Bachelor s Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business Analysis, Data Management, BI)
• 5+ years of work experience in a business or technology role working closely with functions outside of IT understanding business processes and needs
• High level of experience in systems development lifecycle models such Agile or other traditional project management principles
• Change Agent with Managerial Courage
• Delivers Results
• Holistic Thinking
• Strong Teamwork & Collaboration
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems
• Facilitation Skills
• Strong decision-making abilities
• Process-oriented, systems thinking
• Takes initiative
• Strong business and systems acumen
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Executive presence
• Big picture thinking
• Strong organizational skills
• Strategic thinker (ability to break down complex ideas into smaller pieces)
• Ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems
• Ability to build consensus and buy-in with key stakeholders
• Ability to set and manage customer expectations
• Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations
• Excellent time management skills (i.e., setting priorities)
• Ability to lead a team and work independently
• Drive the delivery of quality results on time, with high attention to detail
• Lead Behavior-Driven-Design (BDD) process
• Drive gathering of requirements to facilitate automation of acceptance tests
• Lead the process to build consensus and buy-in with key stakeholders
• Can think at varying levels, from high-level concepts to low-level details
• Can lead/facilitate sessions
• Executive-level communicator
• Ability to demonstrate Agile delivery values
• Structure requirements to facilitate automation of acceptance tests

Minimum Qualifications

• Agile Delivery Values
• Openness Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
• Commitment Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
• Respect Respect your team members to be capable and independent
• Courage You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
• Master s degree
• Experience in systems development lifecycle models such Agile or other traditional project management principles