Senior Information Technology Business Analyst

IZAR Associates, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

IZAR Associates, Inc. is seeking a Kronos Senior Business Analyst Lead onsite in New York to support the upgrade from Kronos Workforce Central to UKG Pro WFM.

The role consolidates five WFC instances into a single proWFM and requires strong stakeholder management, PeopleSoft HRMS integration, and lead testing across multiple teams. The position involves managing complex integrations, data transfer, and validation of pay rules with Kronos Boomi middleware, and coordinating with the PMO to ensure

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst Lead with Kronos/UKG Pro WFM implementations.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience in developing test scripts and leading testing for complex systems.
• Familiarity with Kronos Boomi and integration workflows.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HRMS integration with WFM systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.
• Experience with Kronos Workforce Central and ProWFM configurations.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management to gather requirements for UKG Pro WFM upgrade.
• Analyze business requirements and translate into functional specs.
• Design and manage test scripts to ensure coverage of scenarios.
• Lead a Kronos analyst team in testing and validating configurations.
• Coordinate integration with PeopleSoft and legacy systems via middleware.
• Validate pay rules and payroll processing in PeopleSoft.
• Coordinate with PMO to align objectives and timelines.
• Extract data from WFC and upload into proWFM after cleansing.

Skills

Kronos/WFM expertise

Stakeholder management

Test script development

Team leadership

PeopleSoft integration

Integration middleware (Kronos Boomi)

WFM configuration

Tools

Kronos Boomi

PeopleSoft HRMS

Job description

ONSITE (New York)

A major New York government organization is seeking a Kronos Senior Business Analyst Lead to support the upgrade from Kronos Workforce Central to UKG Pro Workforce Management (WFM). This role involves consolidating five WFC instances into a single Kronos WFM instance, managing complex integrations, and ensuring seamless data transfer with PeopleSoft HRMS and other legacy systems. The role requires a strong understanding of stakeholder management, business requirements, Peoplesoft development and testing processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate effectively with business and IT stakeholders to gather and understand requirements for the UKG Pro WFM upgrade.
• Requirement Analysis: Analyze business requirements and ensure they are accurately translated into functional specifications.
• Test Script design and Development: Develop and manage test scripts using the designated testing tool to ensure comprehensive coverage of business scenarios.
• Team Leadership: Lead a team of Kronos analysts in testing and validating system configurations and integrations. Integration Oversight: Work with the system integrator and PMO to ensure successful integration with PeopleSoft and other legacy systems using Kronos Boomi middleware.
• Configuration Validation: Ensure accurate configuration and validation of pay rules. CBA's and payroll processing, maintaining pay rates in PeopleSoft.
• Project Coordination: Coordinate with the Program Manager to align project objectives and timelines, ensuring successful project delivery.
• Data extraction from WFC, cleansing, reformatting as per latest configuration and upload into proWFM.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst Lead with a focus on Kronos or UKG Pro WFM implementations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in developing test scripts and leading testing efforts for complex systems.
• Familiarity with integration tools and middleware, particularly Kronos Boomi.
• Experience and expertise Knowledge of PeopleSoft HRMS and its integration with WFM systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience in implementing and configuring Kronos Workforce Central Suite and Kronos ProWFM.
• Experience in configuring Kronos Workforce Timekeeper. Knowledge of Activities, Mobile, Analytics and other Workforce Central modules is a plus.
• Knowledge of full life-cycle of a project including gathering detailed requirements, being able to develop a design and then building of the design to deliver the solution to the client.
• Excellent client interaction and communication skills are needed.
• Adoptability to learn SI tools and accelerators to leverage
• Willing to travel to customer’s location as needed.