The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The Human Resources team, with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, takes on complex challenges; we continually test new approaches and embrace change where it will facilitate the best outcome. You'll work alongside a diverse group of HR professionals who are passionate about creating an excellent employee experience, providing client-focused solutions, and implementing consistent and equitable people practices.
The HR Business Analyst (HRBA) team sits within the HR division and provides traditional analysis services to our fellow HR and Payroll teams. This role performs business analysis activities including process documentation and improvement, requirements elicitation and documentation, participation in system design, requirements management, user acceptance testing facilitation and support, and system documentation. This role is expected to work on multiple assignments concurrently, drive small to midsize projects, and occasionally provide 2nd or 3rd tier support for production issues. This role works directly with our other HR and Payroll teams, and there is a large opportunity to influence HR process & technology strategy through these interactions. This role demands a problem-solving, analytical mindset, with great attention to detail.
This position reports to the Senior Manager, Human Resources Business Analysts
*This role is a limited-term position for 30 months.
Your Role
You are responsible for using creative analytical insights to enable employees to deliver on bold aspirations. You will develop and provide direction and guidance on HR business architecture to support the HR department and larger foundation. You are required to be knowledgeable and have an in-depth understanding of HR business processes and know how to work within HR applications (e.g., a suite of applications, inclusive of, but not limited to, Workday) to optimize those processes.
What You’ll Do
- Provide subject matter expertise on HR technology, processes, reports, and integrations while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement across HR technologies and integration with up and downstream systems, including conducting analysis of existing business processes, and identifying and evaluating possible re-configuration/ solutions in response to business issues and challenges.
- Develop and provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of HR business architecture and blueprint to effectively support HR and foundation strategy across the entire employee and grant-making lifecycle.
- Leverage cross-functional, best practice, and HR systems knowledge to help functional teams optimize their existing business processes at scale.
- Define and record systems scope, objectives, and requirements based on both end-user needs and problems to technical associates and/or vendors where appropriate.
- Document and evaluate required data and information; particularly data related to supporting HR transactions and reporting.
- Use modeling, testing, and data models to improve the flow of information through systems and processes to improve business results.
- Collaborate with the end-users to select or create appropriate scenarios to ensure changes meet user specifications.
- Advocate for HR stakeholders and end users across foundation initiatives and with IT.
- Monitor and drive analyses of Workday outcome data to identify relationships and trends; help to interpret data and communicate noteworthy findings to senior HR and business leaders.
- Provide ad-hoc or special project data analysis to HR and business leaders that enable them to achieve their goals and drive decision-making.
- Develop and maintain the HR Capability plan, and partner with IT on technology roadmap for HR and Payroll that leverages innovative and highest value focus.
- Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.
Your Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Experience supporting Benefits and Payroll teams.
- Experience in implementing or supporting Workday application, as well as software development and/or system configuration.
- Experience supporting HR applications.
- Experience working in an agile environment that has a focus on Cloud/SaaS, out-of-the-box solutions.
- Experience mapping business capabilities to long-term technology solutions and outlining solution architecture descriptions, monitoring and governing their implementation, and identifying continual improvement opportunities in alignment with Enterprise Architecture framework.
- Delivery experience in Agile, Scrum, and Cloud environment.
- Detailed knowledge of an HR ecosystem inclusive of, but not limited to, benefits, payroll, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and HR law.
- Knowledge of relationship building and consulting skills, including development of effective relationships with senior leaders.
Other Attributes
- 7+ years of experience as a business analyst or related role.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $125,000 to $187,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $136,100 to $204,300 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hire salaries are typically between the salary range minimum and midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
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Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.
