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Academy Sports + Outdoors · 1 day ago

Sr Business Analyst HR Systems

Katy, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Academy Sports + Outdoors is committed to creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth. The Sr Business Analyst HR Systems role serves as a key liaison between HR and IT, focusing on translating business needs into secure system solutions and leading the design and implementation of HR technologies.

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Responsibilities

Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options, incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership

Translate business requirements for HR systems into detailed, scalable, and secure functional designs while consulting on technical design. This includes creating design documents, diagrams, and specifications for new systems or upgrades

Collaborate with business stakeholders within Human Resources to understand their needs. Analyze existing processes to identify opportunities for improvement through technology

Develops and executes solutions that further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work

Works with business and technology subject matter experts to derive end-to-end solutions that provide value to the enterprise, and these solutions comply with standards and guidelines set forth by Enterprise Architecture

Interact with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations

Facilitates the requirements refinement process, with special focus on service-level requirements

Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; must be willing to accept and factor in feedback

Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of the design to the proposed solution architecture

Contributes to enterprise guidelines, standards, and principles as precedents are discovered and adopted

Articulates design decisions behind the solution design

Takes initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT

Develops a thorough understanding of Academy’s policies, procedures, and safety rules

Participate and contribute to Solution Review Board sessions or other approval processes as required by Academy project governance

Provide effective communication to the cross-functional teams and project leadership promptly

Lead discussions with project and business teams to understand and document business requirements, making recommendations in their domain/application-related area(s)

Coordinates business users through all phases of an implementation, including change management, user acceptance testing, deployment, and hypercare

Identify opportunities for process improvements within assigned projects/portfolio and propose potential solutions

Participate in sprint/project planning and backlog refinement, ensuring business requirements are appropriately addressed and documented

Take initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT

Interact with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations

Interact with Support teams to establish a solid working relationship between IT Development and Support teams

Facilitate the requirements refinement process, with special focus on service-level requirements

Provide effective communication to cross-functional teams and project leadership promptly

Lead discussions with project and business teams to understand and document business requirements, making recommendations in their domain/application-related areas

Duties may change; the Team Member may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Mentor less senior Business Analysts and collaborate with all BAs across teams to develop and refine standard processes

Qualification

HR systems experienceCloud platformsAgileWaterfall methodologiesBusiness analysisChange managementRetail experienceProject managementAnalytical skillsMicrosoft OfficeOptimization skillsProblem-solving skillsCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsSelf-motivatedTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Management, or a relevant field

5+ years of experience related to the Business Analyst role

Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions and managing end-to-end implementation

Experience in designing and integrating solutions in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments

Understanding of networks and security as it relates to integration and data flow between systems

Ability to bridge the gap between waterfall and agile methodologies

Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and can interface effectively with individuals at various levels

Ability to build consensus around proposed solutions

Ability to work well independently, as well as effectively contribute to a team environment

Analytical, with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills

Self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Strong Microsoft Office program experience, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint

Ability to understand and derive lower-level roadmaps with business leadership to help set the requirements' context

In-depth knowledge of retail human resources processes and relevant systems, potentially including specific software like Workday, Kronos, Intranet, and related systems