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Description

About the Team:
UKG is seeking an experienced Principal IT Business Systems Analyst (BSA) responsible for identifying and partnering with internal business units to provide technology solutions for their needs. Qualified candidates possess broad experience working with application development, system integration, data migration, conducting requirements gathering sessions, documenting those requirements for systems projects, and supporting the Business and IT teams during QA/User Acceptance testing. This position demands strong organizational skills and problem-solving expertise, while working with current and emerging technologies, and managing team dynamics. Team orientation, flexibility, innovative thinking, problem solving, and self-motivation are needed for success.

About the Role:
• Participate in a lead role on large strategic projects and or new solutions for the Microsoft D365 Finance & Operations ERP platform including Version Upgrades and Support Tickets.
• Build and maintain relationships with corporate stakeholders across Accounting & Finance, analyzing and understanding business requirements, business processes, functional requirements, and system capabilities.
• Work with stakeholders to understand, prioritize, and estimate development resources required for new features.
• Employ a variety of approaches to eliciting and documenting business, functional and user requirements such as leading workshops, writing use cases, elaborating user stories, creating context and process diagrams, and performing stakeholder analysis.
• Analyze and maintain system configurations.
• Collaborate regularly with technical leads, developers, and integration developers on functional and technical requirements to implement enhancements or application integrations to satisfy business requirements.
• Create deliverables for all aspects of business analysis and functional design for application development, system integration, and data migration initiatives.
• Manage agile delivery for the assigned IT service area team - stock the product backlog with actionable and prioritized agile user stories, manage the team Kanban Board and daily stand ups, and facilitate Sprint Planning/Review/Retrospective meetings.
• Manage development sprints and facilitate the team’s progress toward team goals - act as a team facilitator and continuously engage in improving performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. Coordinate with other teams on deliverables.
• Coordinate review of D365 Release features – evaluate new features and capabilities enabled by Microsoft’s D365 releases. Work with the team Product Owners to identify new features applicable to our UKG Finance stakeholders. Prioritize the features for inclusion in delivery planning.
• Work closely with QA analysts and may perform functional, regression, unit, and user acceptance testing; provide demonstrations to stakeholders as needed.
• Support existing 3rd party application solutions which support Finance and integrate with Microsoft D365, assist with production support and implement small to medium enhancements.

Qualifications

About You:

Basic Qualifications:
• 7+ years of experience as a BA, writing requirements in an IT department or with a software company
• 5+ years of ERP implementation experience and leading enterprise project implementations.
• 3+ year’s experience as Scrum Master or Product Owner role for a software development team that was diligently applying agile principles and practices.
• At least 4+ years of ERP implementation experience with Microsoft D365 Finance & Operations solution
• Accounting and Finance project experience across areas such as, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Revenue Recognition, Data Migration, and Integrations.
• Knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, with an emphasis on requirements elicitation.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business Administration or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Strong technical knowledge of IT support and development processes and systems

Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Strong team, organizational planning skills, sound judgment, work with a high sense of urgency, attention to detail and strong time management
• Scrum Master certification or equivalent
• Product Owner certification or equivalent
• Azure DevOps experience
• Oracle ERP knowledge
• Rev Pro knowledge

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.