Payroll Systems Business Analyst, NA Payroll Systems

Description

Does the challenge that comes from driving complex employee facing experience issues for one of the largest employers excite you? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment and delivering innovative solutions that enable your team and stakeholders to do their jobs more effectively and accurately by streamlining existing processes by leveraging technology?

The North America Amazon Payroll Team is seeking a Business Analyst to help drive small scale automation improvements while partnering on larger scale efforts to enhance the employee experience in relation to Payroll at Amazon for our North America population. This position is responsible for facilitating the successful deployment of both internally built and purchased tools that will simplify the way we interact with employees while also helping us to quantify and capture additional areas for improvement in collaboration with both our internal and external partners.

Your primary responsibilities within our Payroll Systems team will be to dive deep into our existing processes and procedures and gain an understanding of our existing systems and processes to be able to identify opportunities to improve, while thinking critically to uncover any gaps in our current state. Within this role, you will partner with our internal payroll team as well as our technical partners, HR, benefits, and more to gather requirements, map out future state configurations, and drive the development of our testing strategy and validations. The ability to work cross functionally and to identify areas of need proactively is imperative to the continued growth and success of this initiative. Further, you will continue to drive continuous improvement post launch.

Successful candidates will have a business analyst background, have supported complex large scale initiatives and also have implemented small scale automation, be detail driven, have excellent problem solving abilities, and have experience working with HCM/Payroll systems. You should not only be passionate about delivering extensible, on-time solutions, but should also be obsessed with contributing to the development of high-performance teams through rigorous planning, disciplined attention to detail, continuous process improvement and mentorship. You should have experience working with SME’s across multiple geographies, and using data to advance ideas and influence others. Finally, thinking big and setting a bold direction for the future is a must.

Role Responsibilities

Partner with the project managers and our project team to map out our current vs. future state designs.

Support the gathering of requirements and translate those to scalable solutions.

Test, analyze, and evaluate system functionality.

Drive innovation and break through improvements in your team’s processes and practices.

Identify the opportunities that will provide ways to better scale our processes.

Partner with other Amazon teams impacted by these initiatives to test the end to end lifecycle of an employees pay.

Work with operations teams to drive improvements.

Create and manage the communication strategy for promoting and highlighting your strategy, priorities, and the status of your program.

The NA Payroll Systems team is a group of highly skilled and motivated individual engaged in data analysis, drives automation and efficiency in system design, processes and maintenance of payroll systems and applications which limit manual work and results in scalable solutions, drive projects, standardize processes, and eliminate the root cause of defects. This is an exciting opportunity to join this team.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
  
  

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Company - ADCI - Maharashtra - D80

Job ID: A2883402