Senior IT Business Analyst — Workday & Financial Processes

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services in Olympia seeks a Senior IT Business Analyst to translate business needs into requirements for the One Washington and Workday transition. You will analyze processes and collaborate with financial teams to define actionable requirements for developers.

You will facilitate discussions, map workflows, and ensure alignment between current systems and Workday capabilities, while supporting testing and defect resolution.

Qualifications

• Experience with business and requirements analysis for complex IT solutions.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating, prioritizing, and managing requirements.
• Experience with financial applications such as accounts payable/receivable, budgeting, general ledger.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial processes, business needs, and system impacts.
• Gather, document, validate, and prioritize requirements.
• Facilitate discussions with business and technical teams.
• Map workflows and compare current processes with Workday capabilities.
• Identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements and specifications.
• Coordinate with developers, testers, and business partners.
• Support test planning, user acceptance testing, and defect analysis.
• Track requirements, deliverables, and project issues.
• Present findings and recommendations to leadership.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Facilitate discussions

Translate business needs

Workday knowledge

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Education

Master's degree in IT/IS/CS or Business Admin

Bachelor's degree in IT/IS/CS or related field

Associate degree with 9 years IT experience

11 years IT experience

Tools

TFS

Azure DevOps

Agile/Scrum

Job description

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services in Olympia seeks a Senior IT Business Analyst to translate business needs into requirements for the One Washington and Workday transition. You will analyze processes and collaborate with financial teams to define actionable requirements for developers.

You will facilitate discussions, map workflows, and ensure alignment between current systems and Workday capabilities, while supporting testing and defect resolution.