Lead HR Systems Business Analyst

Reinsurance Group of America is a Fortune 200 company focused on life- and health-related solutions. They are seeking a Lead HR Systems Business Analyst to serve as a strategic partner in evaluating complex business needs, optimizing processes, and delivering innovative HR systems.

Responsibilities:

• Provides day-to-day leadership and direction to analysts and project support resources
• Coaches team members on requirements quality, stakeholder management, solution design and best practices
• Adheres and furthers established standards for documentation, backlog refinement and release preparation
• Conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members balancing business value, operational impact, risk, technical feasibility and long-term sustainability and identifies patterns to look for scalable solutions rather than one-off fixes
• Assist with prioritizing work within an iteration and targeted release
• Document the clients’ business needs in the form of user stories
• Creates business process and technical diagrams for shared understanding of how system capabilities connect across processes data, integrations, reporting, compliance and the user experience. Contributes to roadmap planning and prioritization
• Evaluates new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues and communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions
• Create defect and enhancement items to be added to the backlog, collaborate with software engineer for mutual understanding
• Assists in evaluation of business requests to determine feasibility, researches and identifies options

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS), or equivalent experience
• 8+ Years of IT-related experience, such as Business Analysis, Data Analysis
• Lead an Agile/Iterative project team in the role of business analyst
• Workday Core HCM, Workday Benefits, Workday Reporting, Workday Security
• Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge. Advanced ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
• Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills. Advanced data analysis skill. Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
• Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously. Advanced ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management. Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills
• Ability to operate independently and to bring structure to ambiguity
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects. Advanced interpersonal skills
• Basic SQL query writing skills and other technical acumen
• Requirements management tool experience (Azure DevOps or others)