Lead Business Systems Analyst II

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Cruise is seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our People Technology team supporting Workday Benefits, Absence, and Time Tracking.

You will focused on collaborating with business partners to improve processes and efficiency, implementing HR business solutions. This position offers considerable responsibility and interaction with key partners from the business. Our ideal candidate is a well-rounded person with extensive experience in implementing HR solutions and working with multi-functional teams across the organization.

This position serves as a technology lead with our Benefits and Absence team, the Information Technology Systems team and external vendors and consultants. The Lead Business Systems Analyst will have strong business insight and command of our business processes and develop creative technology and systems solutions to meet critical business requirements. This person will be responsible for envisioning and developing new digital products with a concentration on HRIS systems. You will lead day-to-day product development activities across design, development, partner communication, technology vendor management and delivery. Act as the technical innovator and lead for ongoing and future software development efforts.

What you must have:

• BA/BS degree in a related IT field or equivalent work experience

• 7+ years of industry experience configuring and leading HR technology solutions

• 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing Benefits, Absence Management and Time Tracking

• In-Depth expertise of Workday Business Process framework, security, and reporting

• Demonstrable ability to configure Workday Processes and combine knowledge from multiple disciplines (e.g., cloud solutions capability, industry standards) to produce an optimal business solution

• Ability to lead and/or participate in global level projects/assignments with a medium degree of complexity

• Demonstrable experience with project management, process design & requirements gathering

• Experience with implementing and supporting a global organization and global business processes

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead high impact programs and projects involving the selection, implementation, and ongoing improvement of critical enterprise systems specifically focusing on Benefits, Absence, and Time Tracking.

• Drive requirement gathering and design sessions to meet or exceed the business expectations

• Responsible for business to system knowledge management & documentation and assist in overall system design from user interface to backend processes in both custom application development and software configuration projects.

• Business analysis processes mapping including assorted requirements gathering methodologies, documentation, and partner relationship development.

• Interact as People Technology contact with business partners to facilitate identification of process improvements, risk management, system design, testing and implementation of complex solutions.

• Interpret internal or external business issues and recommend standard methodologies.

• Communicate the vision for the system by extracting, analyzing, and prioritizing business requirements from business objectives, documenting those requirements and refining them into technical action items.

• Assist business partners with defining clear, measurable objectives and ensure the solution options meet the project goals and align with the Global Strategic Initiatives.

• Identify issues beyond the stated situation.

• Demonstrates ability to interpret internal/external business challenges and recommends standard methodologies to improve products, processes, services.

• Lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, complexity.

• Complete assigned projects in a timely and cost-effective manner and coordinate the tasks of internal and exter