Business Execution Consultant V - HR Product Analyst
Hybrid - Phoenix, AZ
6-month Contract (W2), Weekly Pay (40 hours/week)
Pay Rate: $82/hr.
Desired Start Date: 5/6/2024
Calculated Hire is in search of a Business Execution Consultant V for our Fortune 100 Financial Services company. The Lead HR Product Analyst (Workday), HR Systems, will deliver compelling and integrated HR technology solutions and ensure alignment to HR Product and Portfolio Management standards and best practices.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, proven contributor with strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills, knowledge of the project tasks required to deliver solutions leveraging both in-house and SAAS based applications (ServiceNow and Workday). Candidates must have a proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (partners from COE business partners, HR, Legal, Technology, and Risk) and possess strong interpersonal skills.
In this role, you will: • Evolve the HR Portfolio and roadmap in partnership with Product leadership, HRIS, our HR business owners, and other stakeholders across the business • Work closely with business partners to evaluate business requirements, plan projects, and participate in efficient development, delivery, and deployments • Function as the highest-level internal consultant within technology and business groups by building and/or re-engineering HR technical and business processes and tools for greater efficiencies with significant impact to the business • Lead the planning, support, and execution of user acceptance cycles, including identifying and documenting all relevant test scenarios and test cases • Produce effective documentation to capture and communicate business process and requirements in the format of business process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, data definition documents, decision trees, logic diagrams, requirements documents, and user experience flows • Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group • Lead and facilitate workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes • Drive requirements, incorporating product expertise and industry knowledge to discover and validate what has real value to the business • Partner with client area to execute planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of overly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems (i.e., ServiceNow, Workday) • Manage multiple stakeholder groups including global business teams, risk management, compliance, legal, data privacy • Own and execute on system administration/configuration for Workday/ServiceNow, including configuration, business processes, security & compliance, notifications, auditing, and data quality management • Drive and maintain capability-specific, vendor-led releases and system enhancements, including the configuration and development of new features, deploying enhancements, as well as creation and execution of test plans, user acceptance and regression testing • Lead complex product solution discussion, Assist in decomposing epics into effective user stories • Maintain task status in JIRA or similar Agile management tool. Experience interpreting business and technical needs and experience integrating systems with third-party service vendors. • Work with user groups to resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes • Ensure cross-functional dependencies are articulated, managed, and addressed to execute projects with quality and on-time • Contribute to delivering solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management • Product-level experience with unionizations (union vs non-union)
Required Qualifications: • 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications: • 4+ years of HR Systems experience (e.g., Workday Core HR Configuration, Union Configuration, ServiceNow HRSD) preferably in a global environment with multiple integrations • 1+ years' experience with Workday and ServiceNow integrations • Experience operating in an Agile environment and/or strong knowledge and understanding of Agile • Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to meet client objectives and desired outcomes • Experience driving the requirements process with both technical and business partners • Experience interpreting business and technical needs and translating them into user stories • Experience managing complex technology projects and presenting to multiple levels of management • Ability to operate as part of cross functional work streams to execute projects with quality and on-time • Knowledge of HR Workday business processes • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills • Strong organizational, multi-tasking and prioritization skills • Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
Preferred Previous Industry Experience:
Financial industry preferred, but open to any industry who has experience working in companies supporting Workday/ServiceNow supporting their union vs non-union employees.