Business Analysts

Job#: 3027187

Job Description:
Job Title

Business Analyst - Payroll Systems
Role Summary

The Business Analyst - Payroll Systems plays a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and continuous improvement of payroll system functionality. This role exists to translate business needs into clear functional and technical specifications, support system enhancements, and ensure payroll processes operate correctly across reporting, integrations, and testing activities.

Working closely with business owners, technical analysts, developers, and testing teams, this role directly impacts payroll accuracy, compliance, and user confidence by ensuring requirements are well-defined, software changes are thoroughly tested, and issues are resolved efficiently.
Core Responsibilities

• Analyze, document, and validate business requirements related to payroll processing and reporting.
• Author functional specifications and review them with business stakeholders for approval.
• Partner with technical staff to review functional specifications during transition to technical design and development phases.
• Create technical specifications for interface and conversion software and review them with development teams.
• Design, develop, and deliver supplemental payroll reports to extend predefined reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with report development teams to package and deploy approved reports for authorized users.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve payroll system issues and defects reported by business users.
• Work with technical analysts to research root causes and implement effective system solutions.
• Develop, execute, and document system test cases to support integrated system testing efforts.
• Coordinate and/or perform user acceptance testing to ensure business readiness and solution quality.
• Run business process simulations to confirm system changes have not introduced processing errors.

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves)

• Ability to analyze and document business requirements with clarity and accuracy.
• Experience authoring functional and technical specifications for enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience supporting system testing, including test case creation and execution.
• Strong problem-solving skills for investigating and resolving software defects.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business users, technical analysts, and developers.
• Experience working with reporting solutions and supplemental report development.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical/business discipline.

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience supporting payroll or human capital management systems.
• Familiarity with system interfaces, data conversions, or integration workflows.
• Experience coordinating or supporting user acceptance testing activities.
• Exposure to enterprise financial or administrative systems.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Understanding of structured system development life cycle (SDLC) practices.

Work Environment

This role operates in a collaborative, cross-functional environment, partnering with business owners, technical analysts, developers, and testing teams. The position supports enterprise payroll systems and reporting solutions and involves both independent analysis work and team-based project activities.

Hybrid

5 Manhattan West, New York, NY

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation and benefits information will be provided by the employer.

Pay Rate $50 -$60 an hour able to negotiate based on experience.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.