Business Analyst V - Solutions Center (100% Remote)

Medical College of Wisconsin; Wauwatosa (WI); À distance; USD 101 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

403B Retirement Package

Competitive vacation and holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Parental Leave

EFAP

Résumé du poste

Medical College of Wisconsin seeks an experienced Business Analyst to optimize Workday Financial Management and HCM reporting. You will translate business needs into accurate, secure reports while partnering with departmental users, leadership, and IT to ensure data integrity.

You will support the full reporting lifecycle, drive consistency in definitions, and advance adoption of Workday and BI solutions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong business analysis experience supporting reporting requirements, functional specifications, data validation, user acceptance testing, and production support.
• Strong understanding of Workday financial reporting concepts, including FDM, worktags, hierarchies, accounting periods, and transaction-level reporting.
• Experience supporting financial reporting across general ledger, grants and awards, procurement, expenses, projects, and labor costing.
• Experience supporting HCM reporting across worker and staffing information, supervisory organizations, compensation, benefits, payroll, and workforce demographics.
• Working knowledge of Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, business objects, data sources, prompts, and filters; ability to review report logic with developers.

Responsabilités

• Partners with departmental users, central administrative teams, and leadership to understand reporting needs and translate requirements into reports.
• Translates business needs into reporting specifications including data definitions, populations, calculations, prompts, filters, periods, and access.
• Evaluates requests against existing Workday reports to identify reuse opportunities and prioritize development.
• Coordinates validation and reconciliation of report results with business owners and supporting transactions.
• Coordinates testing with user roles and defect tracking through resolution; secures sign-off before production deployment.
• Maintains traceability from requirements to delivered functionality and supports adoption reviews.

Connaissances

Workday reporting

Stakeholder facilitation

Requirements gathering

Data validation

Excel

BI tools

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Outils

Workday Report Writer

BI tools

Description du poste

Summary

Facilitates alignment between business needs and reporting solutions, with a primary focus on Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management (HCM) reporting. Serves as a liaison between departmental users, business leadership, reporting developers, and Information Services to translate business requirements into accurate, secure, and usable reports.

Supports the reporting lifecycle from intake and requirements through data validation, user acceptance testing, training, and adoption. Promotes consistent reporting definitions, effective use of existing reporting capabilities, and continuous improvement across Workday and related business intelligence solutions.

This position is 100% remote. All remote work must be performed within one of the MCW registered payroll states, which currently includes: WI, AL, AZ, DE, FL,

GA, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, TN, TX, and UT

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners directly with departmental users, central administrative teams, and business leadership to understand reporting needs, business processes, and the decisions reports must support. Facilitates requirements workshops and validates requirements with the users who will use the reports.
• Translates business needs into reporting specifications, including data definitions, reporting populations, calculations, prompts, filters, reporting periods, effective dates, organizational access, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluates reporting requests against existing Workday reports, dashboards, and business intelligence tools to identify opportunities for reuse, clarify gaps, and avoid duplicate development. Works with Product Management and the Reporting Architect to prioritize requests.
• Applies knowledge of Workday Financial Management and HCM business processes to analyze complex reporting issues and distinguish among requirements gaps, transaction or source-data issues, report logic, and security restrictions.
• Coordinates financial report validation and reconciliation with business owners. Confirms that report results align with supporting transactions, financial balances, reporting periods, and agreed business definitions, including grants, labor costing, and payroll-related reporting where applicable.
• Partners with Security, product teams, and the Reporting Architect during requirements and design to identify sensitive data, authorized audiences, and organizational access restrictions. Coordinates testing with representative user roles before release.
• Develops test plans, test cases, and expected results. Coordinates user acceptance testing with both departmental users and central business owners, tracks defects through resolution, and obtains documented sign-off before production deployment.
• Maintains traceability between requirements, report specifications, test scenarios, and delivered functionality. Provides business scenarios to reporting developers to strengthen development testing and reduce rework.
• Assists with project planning by defining BA tasks, deliverables, estimates, stakeholder commitments, and dependencies. Supports assigned reporting requests from intake through production and business acceptance.
• Develops and maintains reporting documentation standards, requirements templates, data definitions, user guidance, and knowledge articles. Keeps the report catalog current and easy for users to search and understand.
• Facilitates reporting workshops, demonstrations, and office hours to help users find, interpret, and use reports effectively. Collects feedback and identifies additional training or reporting needs.
• Reviews report usage and conducts follow-ups after deployment to assess adoption, validate business value, and identify improvements. Supports quarterly reviews of priority reports.

Knowledge - Skills - Abilities

• Strong business analysis experience supporting reporting requirements, functional specifications, data validation, user acceptance testing, and production support.
• Strong understanding of Workday financial reporting concepts, including the Foundation Data Model (FDM), worktags, organizational hierarchies, accounting periods, and transaction-level reporting.
• Experience supporting financial reporting across relevant areas such as general ledger, grants and awards, procurement, expenses, projects, and labor costing.
• Experience supporting HCM reporting across areas such as worker and staffing information, supervisory organizations, compensation, benefits, payroll, and workforce demographics.
• Working knowledge of Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, business objects, data sources, prompts, and filters. Ability to review report logic with developers and assess whether results meet business requirements.
• Understanding of Workday reporting security, including security groups, domains, role-based access, and organizational constraints. Ability to document access requirements and coordinate security validation.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills, including proficiency in Excel and experience investigating discrepancies across reports or systems.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions with leaders, business owners, departmental users, and technical teams, and communicate complex reporting concepts clearly.

Qualifications

Appropriate experience may be substituted for education on an equivalent basis.

Minimum Required Education: Bachelor's degree

Minimum Required Experience: 7 years

Preferred Experience:

• 7 years of hands‑on experience working with Workday, with substantial experience in both Workday Financial Management reporting and Workday HCM reporting.
• Experience in higher education, academic medicine, or healthcare, particularly with grants, sponsored research, faculty reporting, and labor distribution.
• Experience validating results across Workday and business intelligence platforms, including reporting cubes and BI.
• Working knowledge and experience analyzing data across multiple sources.
• Experience establishing reporting governance, shared data definitions, report catalogs, training programs, and adoption measures.

Physical Requirements

Work requires occasionally lifting moderate weight materials, standing, or walking continuously.

Work Environment

Occasional exposure to dust, noise, temperature changes, or contact with water or other liquids. Work is performed in an environmentally controlled environment.

Sensory Acuity

Ability to detect and translate speech or other communication required. May occasionally require the ability to distinguish colors and perceive relative distances between objects.

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Target salary range for this position is between $101,200.00 and $129,700.00 annually. The final offered salary will depend on the applicant's education, experience, skills, and knowledge, as well as considerations of internal equity and market alignment.

Why MCW?

• Outstanding Healthcare Coverage, including but not limited to Health, Vision, and Dental. Along with Flexible Spending options
• 403B Retirement Package
• Competitive Vacation and Paid Holidays offered
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Pet Insurance
• On campus Fitness Facility, offering onsite classes
• Additional discounted rates on items such as: Select cell phone plans, local fitness facilities, Milwaukee recreation and entertainment etc.

For a brief overview of our benefits see: Benefits Overview

For a full list of positions see: MCW Careers

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