Business Consulting Lead FSO Job in Oakland, California Us
The business consulting Lead will lead the NPS Timekeeping BA function. Initiates, creates, and implements system enhancements, functional designs, and business processes for National Timekeeping. Responsible to ensure client requirements are captured, within the framework of best practices and consistency. Act as a change agent with clients to ensure any system solution/change is the optimal solution from a business and strategic perspective.
Provides direction to clients in consulting and planning system or process enhancements. Works with team members as a point of contact to regional clients, labor relations, compensations and other HR functions. Collaboratively work with IT to ensure proposed solutions are the optimal solution to the problem, from a user/client/consistency perspective. Participate in Timekeeping's monthly and quarterly release process, from business requirement creation through implementation. Ensuring client participation throughout the process.
Act as a Timekeeping liaison to other NPS BA leads and operational groups, to ensure all changes made to any application or process within the NPS community, is integrated and accounted for. Ensure any critical system changes requested by My HR (HR/Ben etc) are evaluated for impact to the timekeeping system., and if applicable, integrated into the Timekeeping release process.
Uses professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve complex problems in effective and creative ways. Develops solutions to problems of unusual complexity, which require ingenuity and innovation. Demonstrates a high level of functional timekeeping expertise (labor contracts, pay practice concepts, and significant timekeeping system experience) and thoroughly understands cross functional dependencies between timekeeping, payroll, and HR. Develops/maintains and changes system and business processes, with an understanding of the systems and business processes of assigned partners and how they relate to our functional areas. Must gain cooperation and acceptance/approval in resolving problems, and/or negotiate with other parties to arrive at an agreement.
Essential Functions:
Broad application of principles, theories, and concepts in applicable discipline, plus working knowledge of other related fields.
- Uses professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve complex problems in creative and effective ways.
- This job is the fully-qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.
- Demonstrates expertise in functional area business processes and understands assigned and cross functional areas.
- Independently initiates, identifies and coordinates the analysis of complex client needs in project areas such as: new/existing business operating models, innovative approaches to solutions
emerging or available product functionality and operational readiness assessment.
- Identifies opportunities for increasing business efficiency through improved manual and automated process systems.
- Coordinates the development of comprehensive business cases with cost, service, and benefit dimensions of proposed projects that are used at management and executive levels for funding and scope decisions.
- Accountable for tracking and/or monitor and report for senior mgmt the results of actualization of benefits.
- Plans, coordinates and conducts the analysis of client business processes and functional requirements and the preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information.
- Develops cross-initiative integration plans.
- Identifies other initiatives that exist and ensures that efforts are not duplicated.
- Supports a variety of applications.
- Consults on the integration of application systems into the work environment, regarding their operational and training implications.
- Acts as project lead in the coordination of solution development and the implementation of the final product/service.
- Acts as a liaison between business clients and technical staff and/or with development staff throughout the development life cycle.
- May develop project plans.
- Identifies and coordinates within other project managers and implements schedule deadlines as appropriate.
- Manages common resource demands.
- Provides on-going project management and status reporting at all levels.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Total of 5 or more years of related experience to include two or more years in a consulting role.
- Thorough knowledge of platforms of the assigned functional area and multi-area functionality based on assignment
- Bachelors Degree in Business/Health Care Administration or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Preferred certification or advanced qualification by third party association that matches the function or field applicable to the business discipline
- 5 Years experience in Healthcare environment preferred
- Experience with People Soft TL 9.1, implementation
- Expertise with highly integrated HCM systems.
- Expertise writing business requirements and functional design documents
- 2 or more years experience with timekeeping systems (with complex pay practices).