Business Analyst V – Solutions Center

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +13 more locations.

📋 Description

• Enable alignment between business requirements and reporting solutions, focusing mainly on Workday Financial Management and HCM reporting.

• Act as a bridge between departmental users, business leadership, reporting developers, and Information Services.

• Convert business requirements into precise, secure, and user-friendly reporting solutions.

• Assist in the reporting lifecycle from the initial intake and requirements gathering through to data validation, user acceptance testing, training, and overall adoption.

• Advocate for uniform reporting definitions and effective utilization of existing Workday and business intelligence tools.

• Lead requirements workshops and confirm requirements with report users.

• Transform business needs into reporting specifications, covering data definitions, populations, calculations, prompts, filters, periods, effective dates, access, expected results, and acceptance criteria.

• Assess requests against current Workday reports, dashboards, and BI tools to uncover reuse opportunities and prevent redundant development.

• Investigate complex reporting challenges and identify gaps in requirements, source data issues, report logic, and security limitations.

• Oversee the validation and reconciliation of financial reports in collaboration with business stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Security, product teams, and the Reporting Architect regarding sensitive data, authorized audiences, and access limitations.

• Create test plans and cases, coordinate user acceptance testing, track defects, and secure documented approval.

• Ensure traceability among requirements, specifications, test scenarios, and delivered functionalities.

• Contribute to project planning by defining business analyst tasks, deliverables, estimates, stakeholder commitments, and dependencies.

• Keep reporting documentation, requirements templates, data definitions, user guidance, knowledge articles, and the report catalog updated.

• Conduct workshops, demonstrations, and office hours; gather feedback and determine training needs.

• Evaluate report usage post-deployment to measure adoption, confirm business value, and identify areas for improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree is required, though relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of formal education on an equivalent basis.

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience is required.

• Extensive business analysis experience in supporting reporting requirements, functional specifications, data validation, user acceptance testing, and production support.

• A solid understanding of Workday financial reporting concepts, including the Foundation Data Model (FDM), worktags, organizational hierarchies, accounting periods, and transaction-level reporting.

• Experience in supporting financial reporting across general ledger, grants and awards, procurement, expenses, projects, and labor costing.

• Experience in supporting HCM reporting, including worker and staffing information, supervisory organizations, compensation, benefits, payroll, and workforce demographics.

• Proficient knowledge of Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, business objects, data sources, prompts, and filters.

• Understanding of Workday reporting security, including security groups, domains, role-based access, and organizational limitations.

• Strong analytical and reconciliation abilities, including proficiency in Excel and experience in investigating discrepancies across reports or systems.

• Capability to facilitate discussions with leaders, business owners, departmental users, and technical teams, and to clearly communicate complex reporting concepts.

• Preferred: 7 years of hands-on Workday experience, with considerable experience in both Workday Financial Management reporting and Workday HCM reporting.

• Preferred experience in higher education, academic medicine, or healthcare, particularly with grants, sponsored research, faculty reporting, and labor distribution.

• Preferred experience in validating results across Workday and business intelligence platforms, including reporting cubes and BI.

• Preferred working knowledge and experience in analyzing data from multiple sources.

• Preferred experience in establishing reporting governance, shared data definitions, report catalogs, training programs, and adoption measures.

• Remote work must be performed within one of the MCW registered payroll states: WI, AL, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, TN, TX, or UT.

🏝️ Benefits

• Exceptional Healthcare Coverage, including but not limited to Health, Vision, and Dental.

• Flexible Spending options available.

• 403B Retirement Plan.

• Competitive Vacation and Paid Holidays provided.

• Tuition Reimbursement opportunities.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP).

• Pet Insurance offered.

• On-campus Fitness Facility with onsite classes available.

• Additional discounted rates on items such as select cell phone plans, local fitness facilities, and Milwaukee recreation and entertainment.