Human Resources Business Analyst (Oracle HCM)

Ampstek; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Part time

Job summary

A consulting firm in Johannesburg seeks an HR Business Analyst specializing in Oracle HCM. The role involves delivering comprehensive business analysis, facilitating workshops, and engaging with stakeholders to gather and document requirements. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong analytical skills and experience in leading design thinking sessions, ensuring alignment of solutions with business needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis with Oracle HCM.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops and stakeholder consultations.
• Ability to lead design thinking sessions and articulate requirements.

Responsibilities

• Deliver business analysis activities across all areas.
• Prepare materials and facilitate stakeholder workshops independently.
• Engage with technical teams to propose and specify solutions.

Job description

Job information

Position: HR Business Analyst (Oracle HCM)

Position type: Contract (Onsite)

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Responsibilities

• Deliver business analysis activities and outputs across all the business analysis knowledge areas: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Life Cycle Management, Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Design Definition, and Solution Evaluation
• Prepare materials and facilitates workshops/consultations independently with stakeholders
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
• Analyse elicitation results and create representation of the results
• Lead Design Thinking sessions through Problem Definition, Research & Requirements gathering, Ideation
• Facilitate early-stage workshops and JAD sessions with stakeholders to understand their needs, analyse and elicit requirements
• Employ design thinking and agile techniques e.g. user stories to specify and document requirements as a brief statement about what users need
• Lead white-boarding sessions with project stakeholders to develop detailed customer journey, create mock-up screens
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, and distinguish requirements / requests from the underlying true needs
• Engage with technical teams to propose and specify solutions
• Model the business and IT domain
• Review business processes and procedures, analyse business needs and related data, determine possible solutions, and define requirements
• Elaborate scope of solutions with technical teams
• Elicit, analyse and document business requirements and provide functional specifications
• Lead acceptance testing
• Negotiate and resolve conflicts, issues, and change requirements of low/medium risk and on a day-to-day basis to ensure the alignment of solutions, scope, and business need
• Document and manage change requirements of low/medium risk and supporting specifications
• Manage and track requirements to ensure requirements at different levels are aligned and prioritised
• Investigate problems and propose solutions by interacting with users, developers, and other stakeholders
• Provide input into training courses that support implementation
• Configure complex business processes and tasks within a system for improvement
• Perform business analysis on the assigned part of the value stream in line with predetermined guidelines and methodologies
• Review and understand system functionality impacting/ supporting the assigned part of the value stream
• Input into identifying ways to fine tune systems in line with changing work practices
• Determine, document, and review user requirements for projects within the scope of the assigned part of the value stream or impacting processes and systems within the assigned part of the value stream
• Review technical specifications to ensure user and functional requirements are met
• Analyse and document workflow and make appropriate recommendations that will positively impact operational effectiveness
• Prepare formal business processes
• Track and analyse activities and trends. Compare analyses against service standards and best practices, and make appropriate recommendations that will positively impact the unit
• Identify and maximise opportunities to use information and technology to improve product, service and business processes