HR Systems Business Analyst (Workday HCM and/or Workday Adaptive Insights)

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Human Resources, Project Management, Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$91,800.00 - $151,600.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

* The HR Systems Business Analyst collaborates with business leadership to envision and develop long range strategies to support changing business and technical needs.
* Is aware of business and technology strategies that affect their domain and are responsible to assess and communicate impacts of changes to the environment.
* Able to bring together a diverse stakeholder group, drive consensus and create a shared understanding between the customer community and the solution delivery team.
* Responsible for/involved in all aspects of the life of a specific system/application. May include: Evaluation of system enhancement requests, requirements development and documentation, testing, configuration and implementation; production support/troubleshooting, maintenance of system documentation, training responding to customer concerns and communicating results.
* Possesses in-depth knowledge of one or more business capabilities, products and/or system domains. Utilizing knowledge of the business and the specific application(s), anticipates and proactively identifies system opportunities to support business needs.
* May specialize in a particular technology or skill.
* Typically acts as a team lead. on complex changes.
* Provides direction, coaching and mentoring to project team members.

What Will You Do?

• Utilizes business and system knowledge to support business needs.
• Understands the political nature of the organization and works appropriately within it; effectively establishes collaborative relationships and alliances throughout the organization.
• Possesses in-depth knowledge of a particular business capability, product and/or system domain.
• Understands impacts of changes to current state business process, data, feeds and systems. Identifies potential impacts in other systems domains.
• May participate in departmental or divisional planning process. Provides subject matter expertise and capabilities to Business and IT Projects.
• Using business acumen, makes recommendations for operational process improvements on projects and/or system enhancements.
• Works with stakeholders to prioritize requirements effectively based on business value, risks and constraints.
• Develops requirements work plans, identifies task dependencies, develops estimates and determines resource skill requirements; supports risk management and change management activities.
• Validates the solution (people, process and technology) meets the business capability, product or system objectives.
• Identifies appropriate subject matter experts and stakeholders to participate in requirements sessions.
• Documentation and Training: Maintains documentation of current state systems and processes.
• Assures development of training materials and business implementation/transition is completed.
• Production support/troubleshooting: Leads troubleshooting and defect resolution. This includes requesting resources, migration through environments and ticket management.
• Proactively communicates status of enhancements, change requests and defects. Responsible for change, defect and enhancement request process and assignment of approved work for team.
• Simultaneously supports multiple projects as assigned.
• Performs other responsibilities as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelors degree in Business, MIS, or other related field preferred.
• Seven years of experience implementing and supporting Workday HCM and/or Workday Adaptive Insights preferred.
• Technology (Advanced): Uses, le