Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Wisconsin.

📋 Description

• Establish and maintain robust relationships with business leaders, process owners, and end users within a matrixed environment to ensure alignment between departmental needs and system capabilities.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of business processes, workflows, and challenges within assigned functional areas.

• Conduct intricate data analysis to uncover trends, issues, and opportunities, translating insights into actionable recommendations.

• Address and resolve reporting challenges, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across systems and outputs.

• Offer strategic direction on reporting solutions, including the selection and design of tools such as Workday reports, Tableau dashboards, or other platforms that best align with business needs.

• Convert complex business requirements into clear functional specifications for system configuration and development.

• Collaborate with WEST teams and vendors to design, implement, test, and roll out enhancements.

• Spearhead change management initiatives, which include impact assessments, communication strategies, and end-user training.

• Conduct workshops, requirement-gathering sessions, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure solutions align with business expectations.

• Track business process performance and adoption, proactively identifying and pursuing opportunities for improvement.

• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable, campus-wide solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in analyzing complex business processes, gathering requirements, and developing business solutions.

• Capability to perform advanced data analysis.

• Familiarity with ERP data (e.g., Workday), including understanding data models, relationships, and table structures.

• Established ability to troubleshoot reporting issues and maintain data accuracy and integrity across systems.

• Strong attention to detail with the capacity to synthesize data and information into presentations and materials.

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

• Knowledge of methodologies for analyzing business needs and recommending relevant solutions, including policy, process, or system improvements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off.

• Competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance.

• Tax-advantaged savings accounts.

• Participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund.