Business Analyst (Payroll, Payment)

Job Summary: Business and Technical Analyst. The primary functions of the business analyst will be: • Analyze and document business requirements. • Author functional specifications, review functional specifications with business owners for approval, and review functional specifications with technical staff during transition to technical design and coding phases of the project. • Author technical specifications for interface and conversion software and review technical specifications with staff during the transition to technical design and coding phases of the project. • Construct additional reports as requested to supplement the predefined reporting capabilities of the Payroll module. • As needed, work with Client report development staff to package and deploy supplemental reports into a catalog available to authorized users. • Investigate and resolve software issues and defects reported by business users and others. • Work with technical analysts to research problems to find and implement solutions. • Supplement the activities of the Client Integrated System Test team as necessary. • The analyst will be expected to author test cases, execute test cases, and document the results. • Supplement the activities of the end users by coordinating end user acceptance test activities or performing user acceptance testing on their behalf, or both. • Run simulations of the business event processing to ensure that software modifications have not introduced errors into the processes. Qualifications: • Previous experience working with an enterprise wide, large-scale environment. • Experience Implementing Tax updates in a government or civil service environment. • Excellent understanding of systems development lifecycle methodologies. • Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills required. • Strong MS Office 2010 and later; including Visio, Excel, Project, and Access required. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience and knowledge of PMS and PPMS (payroll processes), NYCAPS (personnel), City Time (timekeeping) and CHRMS canned reports and Ad Hoc facility. • Extensive knowledge of Fair Labor and Standards Act (FLSA) Overtime processing rules. • Extensive knowledge of contractual overtime processing rules. • Experience with application configuration design and set-up. • Knowledge and experience in IBM Mainframe environments, QMF, SQL, MS SQL Server. • Understanding of relational databases (e.g. DB2). • Proficiency running back-end/database queries for data analysis (DB2 on Mainframe). • Clearly document and explain problems and to work with others to resolve software defects while ensuring technical compatibility and end user satisfaction. • Ability to demonstrate the ability to plan, manage time according to schedules, and status reporting. Education: • Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required. Skills: Business Analyst, HR Payroll, W2 Amendment