Senior Payroll Business Analyst

Company: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: March 16, 2020

Job Description:

Senior Payroll Business Analyst

Position ID: 20019341

Position Summary
The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst for the Payroll function within ConnectCarolina at UNC. ConnectCarolina is the name for the University?s ERP Implementation of PeopleSoft for Administrative users across Student, HR/Payroll, and Finance.

Responsibilities for this role include working with ConnectCarolina team members, Payroll staff and customers to ensure the Payroll capability within ConnectCarolina operates effectively and efficiently and integrates well with the Finance and HR modules; serving as the expert for how the Payroll system should be setup; identifying high level business and system requirements and developing strategies to implement them; and negotiating resolutions of conflicting requirements and recommending business process changes where applicable. This position will have knowledge of external trends in payroll and of best practices that can be applied to ConnectCarolina.

This person will work on projects, small enhancements, upgrades, patches and break fix issues within the Payroll module. Specific duties could include:

- Monitor production support issues and ticket queues for payroll. This position would understand PeopleSoft data structures and be able to effectively solve complex issues.

- Gather and synthesize functional specifications to design, develop, enhance, implement, and maintain system applications.

- Perform independent system analysis, lead and coordinate payroll related testing, and debug problems as they arise.

- Analyze current processes and evaluate more efficient solutions where needed. Investigate PeopleSoft functionality not currently utilized and make recommendations for future implementations.

- Develop and provide complex reporting solutions using PS Query and/or SQL

- Maintain existing and develop new interfaces to external systems

- Trouble-shoot and resolve tickets and reported application issues, provide support for system testing

- Serve as the primary backup for the functional office Payroll Business Analyst

This role works primarily with the ConnectCarolina team in ITS but will also spend a significant amount of time working at the Payroll Office with the Payroll team

Educational Requirements
Master?s and 1-2 years of experience or Bachelors and 2-4 years? experience or will accept a combination of related education and experience in substitution.

Qualifications and Experience
Required:

- Works independently on tasks, responsible for his/her own deliverables and monitors progress against defined parameters.

- Strong communication skills, including written and verbal, and being able to use these communication skills to direct the work of multiple groups when coordinating testing.

- Prior demonstrated work experience in a senior business analyst type role.

- Experience using PS Query is required or a similar ad-hoc query tool that proficiency has been acquired in.

- The position requires experience leading sessions to review and document business processes.

- The role requires someone with strong interpersonal skills who can interact with people at various levels of the organization effectively.

- The position demands strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to lead the discussion of topic driven meetings. The role requires someone with a strong customer service focus.

- Must have experience in a production support environment and be able to perform detailed root cause analysis and resolution.

- Must possess attention to detail and be able to manage multiple tasks concurrently.

- The candidate needs to have strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.

Preferred:

- Strongly Prefer prior experience in a business analyst role for three or more years in Payroll.

- Strongly Prefer experience working with PeopleSoft Payroll. Experience with another non-PeopleSoft ERP Payroll and/or ERP HR/Benefits systems is also acceptable.

- The ideal candidate has ERP implementation or maintenance experience in large, complex enterprises such as UNC Chapel Hill.

- Experience in development or technical tasks besides queries would be a huge asset to an applicant for this position.

- Prior experience working in Higher Education is preferred.

Application Types Accepted
Applications must be received in the Department of Human Resources by the closing date to be considered. Please submit an online application for Position ID 20019341 at http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/178263

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.

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