HR Business Analyst
January 31 2025
Industries
Education, Training
Categories Training - Development - Improvement
Calgary, AB • Part time
Our people make SAIT great. The Human Resources team is here to help you make the most of your career at SAIT. Building on the Strategic Plan, our people plan provides opportunities to learn, develop and grow.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the HRIS and Data Operations, we are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Human Resources Business Analyst to join our team and contribute to the continuous improvement of business analysis standards, procedures, and processes.
In this role, you will collaborate with project leads, business solution architects, and subject matter experts to identify and document standard business processes, assess current and future states, and conduct gap analyses. Your expertise will help translate customer needs into functional and technical requirements, while facilitating workshops and meetings to ensure meaningful stakeholder input.
You will also work closely with cross-functional teams and vendor partners to ensure high-quality solutions, and leverage tools like Tableau and Power BI to analyze data and provide valuable insights.
If you're passionate about process improvement, fostering collaboration, and driving productivity, we'd love to hear from you!
Role Responsibilities
- Participate in the establishment and continuous review and improvement of business analysis standards, procedures, and processes
- Understand business process notation and techniques, as well as process improvement methods and criteria
- Work collaboratively with Project Managers and Business Subject Matter Experts (SME's) by participating in process reviews and/or providing process-modeling services of current state and/or future state, including gap analyses
- Working with various functions and end-users to identify, document, and communicate standard business processes, and completing system, process and release documentation as required
- Interpret and translate customer's needs into functional and technical requirements. Manage group collaboration with business stakeholders, effectively facilitating meetings and workshops and elicit meaningful input from all group members
- Assist in identification of process strengths and weaknesses; research and recommend areas of improvement for overall productivity and efficiency
- Work with business stakeholder groups, project teams, technical experts, and vendor partners to ensure quality solutions are delivered to our client
- Extract, capture, analyze, organize, and prioritize business and/or data requirements for change and development requests
- Engage key stakeholders in the requirement gathering process and maintain their involvement throughout the delivery process.
- Collaborate with team members, projects, and vendor partners to define solutions that meet business requirements
- Identify technical and delivery risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Lead initiatives, embrace change, and help to foster a positive and engaged team atmosphere
- Produces effective and professional written documentation and materials, including presentations to stakeholder groups
- Analyze data using Tableau and Power BI to uncover insights and trends.
- Develop dashboards, reports, and visualizations to effectively communicate findings.
Technical Capabilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to manage priorities independently
- Superior competency in business requirements gathering and process mapping
- Excellent facilitation management skills
- Strong customer service and professional judgment skills.
- Strong continuous improvement mindset
- SAIT Core Capabilities
- Creativity - the willingness to experiment, improvise, innovate and imagine.
- Critical Thinking - analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing, and reconstructing information to inform and make decisions
- Citizenship - understanding and facilitating the connection between people, society and the planet for the sustainability of systems, both cultural and environmental.
- Curiosity - seeking out current information and experiences and strives for understanding.
- Connection - building effective relationships. Working effectively and communicating with others across differences
Qualifications and Experience
- 5 years' experience in design, development, testing and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP), systems development life cycle.
- Minimum post-secondary education in Business, Computer science or Technology. Other relevant education combined with experience will be considered.
- Experience working on collaboration tools - i.e JIRA, Service Now, SharePoint, Teams
- Very strong technical proficiency with an HRIS system, preferably Banner
- Knowledge and experience with Cornerstone HCM or other large ERP systems is an asset.
- Proven expertise in comprehensive business requirements gathering and related documentation
- Experience with LMS and/or Survey software is an asset
Job classification: P5944 - Business Analyst
Salary range: $65,000 - $89,000
Paid Leave: 4 Weeks Vacation / 14 Flex Days per year
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Posting closing date: February 6th, 2025
About SAIT
SAIT is a global leader in applied education. Named one of Alberta's Top Employers, we offer the chance to work with a purpose — preparing the next generation of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, advocates and explorers.
Building on our 100+ year history, we're looking for innovative, bold and collaborative employees who embrace change and deliver world-class customer experiences. Your future starts now at SAIT.
Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is essential to achieving SAIT's vision to be a global leader in applied education. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Learn more about EDI at SAIT.
At SAIT, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We're dedicated to adding diverse perspectives to SAIT - so if your experience is close to what we're looking for, please consider applying.
SAIT is committed to supporting persons with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. We will work with applicants to provide accommodations upon request to the Talent Advisor.
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