Senior Business Systems Analyst: HR & Payroll Solutions

Pattison Food Group; City of Langley; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension plan

Free parking

Exclusive team member offers

Development and career progression

Job summary

Pattison Food Group is hiring a Senior Business Systems Analyst for its Langley, BC IT team. You will translate business requirements into system solutions, guide analyses across initiatives, and partner with stakeholders to ensure alignment of payroll, operations, and HR systems.

With a focus on workforce management, you will document requirements, lead workshops, and validate pay-impact scenarios while supporting phased deployments and knowledge transfer to operations teams.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary diploma or degree in Business Analysis, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst supporting complex enterprise platforms.
• Strong experience producing structured, functional documentation and traceability artifacts.
• Proficiency with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, or similar.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Excel for data analysis and validation.
• Strong process modelling skills (process flows, activity or sequence diagrams).
• Hands-on experience leading and supporting requirements elicitation, system testing, UAT, and pay-impact validation.
• Experience with Workday or integrated HR ecosystems is considered an asset.
• Experience working in unionized or highly regulated environments is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting workforce management requirements, system rules, operational practices, and business objectives.
• Translating collective agreements, labour policies, and operational scenarios into clear, structured, and testable functional requirements.
• Leading discovery sessions, workshops, and fit-gap analyses with stakeholders, SMEs, Payroll, and Operations teams to guide solution design and configuration decisions.
• Partnering with the Product Owner and key business stakeholders to evaluate options and assess impacts on compliance, payroll, operations, and system capabilities.
• Designing and supporting pay-impact test scenarios, parallel payroll validation, and end-to-end traceability from labour rules to system configuration and outcomes.
• Supporting phased deployments by ensuring functional readiness, capturing lessons learned, and facilitating knowledge transfer to operational teams.
• Analyzing system data and behavior to validate requirements, define integration needs, and resolve functional issues with developers, architects, vendors, and implementation partners.

Skills

JIRA

Confluence

Visio

SQL

Excel

Process modelling

Pay-impact validation

Workday

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Analysis / Information Systems / Computer Science

Tools

Workday

Job description

Pattison Food Group is hiring a Senior Business Systems Analyst for its Langley, BC IT team. You will translate business requirements into system solutions, guide analyses across initiatives, and partner with stakeholders to ensure alignment of payroll, operations, and HR systems.

With a focus on workforce management, you will document requirements, lead workshops, and validate pay-impact scenarios while supporting phased deployments and knowledge transfer to operations teams.