Senior Workday Business Systems Analyst

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About the department
Cloudflare's Enterprise Applications Team builds and runs Enterprise systems to enable Cloudflare internal teams to operate efficiently and enable our customers and partners to do business with us. Enterprise Applications Team is part of the CIO organization. Within the Enterprise Applications Team is a technical team whose main responsibility is to manage our Workday platform instance.
This team is responsible for the performance and maintenance of the company's Human Resources Information System (HRIS) associated with the collection, retrieval, accessibility, and usage of employee information for the Human Resources department planning and related activities. The team documents and analyzes the company's HR data system's needs and develops solutions to support the department. They also collaborate with other departments relative to the interface of HR systems with other critical enterprise systems (i.e. compensation, payroll, time and attendance, benefits, finance, etc.).
What you'll do
As a Senior Workday Business Systems Analyst, you are expected to be an advanced professional in the systems & process design and implementation space with strong Human Resources business process knowledge. The Senior Workday Business Systems Analyst will elicit, understand, and document the internal customer's business requirements, processes and workflows developing both written and visual depictions of requirements and process flows. You will also work with developers to create the functional specifications that meet those requirements, serve as a subject matter expert to the developers building those functions, and test the developed functionality. This role works closely with other Business SMEs, Developers, and Production Support through each stage of the software development lifecycle and also demonstrates both existing and new functionality to the customer stakeholders.
This job requires an experienced analyst who can partner effectively with all levels of the organization, lead others, drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems, and make challenging decisions. You will also be responsible for recommending and instituting business analysis best practices, tools and methodology towards standardization of BA deliverables and procedures.

• Develop and document understanding of business processes including Core HCM and Payroll
• Deliver functional specifications that includes functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to business users and development staff
• Research and analyze all aspects of existing business practices and procedures
• Develop methodology documents based upon self-initiated interviews, diagrams, surveys and workflow analysis
• Create detailed plans for execution and implementation of new processes
• Be responsible for direct interaction with business users including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements, use cases and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Work with technical teams to deliver high level estimates to develop and deploy functionality
• Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
• Facilitate and perform Build vs Buy analysis for new tools or new feature requests on existing applications
• Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
• Work with internal business users to demonstrate the changes to the system and ensure all relevant business needs are addressed.
• Oversee the life cycle of changes to business systems and processes, and prepare detailed status reports for executive management
• Manage multiple competing priorities through effective organization and communication.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in technology-related field or relevant experience in implementing Business systems
• Minimum 5 years of experience in implementations and ongoing operations of enterprise systems in a Business systems analyst role
• Strong Human Resources process knowledge, among others
• Has expertise in developing and preparing use cases, functional specifications, and technical requirements
• Ability to understand and represent the needs of the end user in a software development environment
• Experience in supporting internal and external auditors with SOX ITGC, SOD
• Experienced in implementing and sustaining best of breed SaaS applications implementations in an enterprise environment
• Strong consultative and advisory skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Attention to detail and strong work ethic
• Experienced in working with both internal and system integrator teams for development
• Experience with Workday HRIS, international payroll integration experience strongly preferred
• Experience with Jira and Google Suite
• Demonstrated team leadership, management and project implementation
• Experience in building strong working relationships with business partners, application users, project managers, internal IT team, external application consultants

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $126,000 - $154,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $146,000 - $178,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $153,000 - $187,000

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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