Sr. Business Analyst (Payroll)

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1. Saravanan Ganesan
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Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst (Payroll)
Location: NYC, NY
Duration: 11 Months+
Years of Experience: 8-10 Years
Required Hours/Week: 40 Hours/Week

Notes:

• Locals highly preferred
• Govt project HUGE plus

Job Overview:

• We need Sr. Business and Technical Analyst who will support serve as a business and technical analyst in the HR Payroll group of Client-OPA Project.
• The Business Analyst will support the Payroll (PMS) and W2 Amendment (W2AM) applications.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyze and document business requirements.
• Author functional specifications, review functional specifications with business owners for approval, and review functional specifications with technical staff during transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.
• Author technical specifications for interface and conversion software and review technical specifications with staff during the transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.
• Construct additional reports as requested to supplement the predefined reporting capabilities of the Payroll module. As needed, work with FISA-OPA report development staff to package and deploy supplemental reports into a catalog available to authorized users.
• Investigate and resolve software issues and defects reported by business users and others.
• Work with technical analysts to research problems to find and implement solutions.
• Supplement the activities of the FISA-OPA Integrated System Test team as necessary. The analyst will be expected to author test cases, execute test cases, and document the results.
• Supplement the activities of the end users by coordinating end user acceptance test activities or performing user acceptance testing on their behalf, or both.
• Run simulations of the business event processing to ensure that software modifications have not introduced errors into the processes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required.
• 8+ years of experience as a Business/Technical Analyst with strong focus on Payroll systems.
• Strong knowledge of Payroll processes, W2, and tax-related systems (W2 amendments preferred).
• Prior experience with government or public sector projects is highly preferred.