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RSM is looking to hire a Business Analyst on our National Finance and Operations team.

The Business Analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies,

and information systems. The business analyst’s primary responsibility is to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Under general direction of Finance Business, directs analysis activities for high-priority projects requiring high degree of understanding their business strategies.

Analytical duties may include but are not limited to:

• Investigate and triage Workday PSA and RM system and operations issues.

• Perform Workday administrative functions including business process and tenant configuration, postproduction support within PSA/RM realm.  Areas will include Financials, Projects, Resource Plans and Pools, and Resource Forecasts and Budgets.

• Understand the overall PSA and RM within Workday, including overall functional usage of Workday

• Prepare for and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using a variety of techniques including but not limited to: brainstorming, interviews, surveys, requirements workshops, observation, task and workflow analysis, prototyping, storyboarding, document analysis, interface analysis, and focus group sessions

• Work with stakeholders, sponsor, and project manager to prioritize requirements and agree on assumptions and constraints.

• Organize, model, and specify requirements with the appropriate level of detail given complexity, risk, and audience.

• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.

• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by project team members who base their work on the requirements.

• Communicate requirements to ensure all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the solution and to secure approval from stakeholders with the authority to approve.

• Manage issues and changes to baselined requirements by identifying business impact of the changes and through effective application of change control processes and tools.

• Manage traceability of requirements to ensure alignment to project goals and objectives as well as alignment to development and testing plans.

• Manage requirements documentation for reuse.

• Travel: up to 10% of time

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience

• 2-4 years relevant experience

• Ability to manage medium to large size and complexity projects.

• Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise software products are positioned and developed.

• Knowledge of defect tracking processes and tools

• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a highly collaborative environment

• Proficient in MS Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

• General knowledge of business and IT systems

• Strong attention to detail, motivation, and initiative

• Listening, observation, and oral communication skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say.

• Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops.

• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to manage rapidly changing information.

• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders

• Time management skills, to manage multiple tasks and responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Workday Financials, specifically Projects, Resource Plans, Pools, and Forecasts, and Budgets

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

• Financial services or accounting industry experience

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.

As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer all applicants will receive consideration for employment as RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; color; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs, practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender (including gender identity and/or gender expression); sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past, current or prospective service in the US uniformed service; US Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. 

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process and/or employment/partnership. RSM is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or otherwise participate in the recruiting process, please call us at 800-274-3978 or send us an email at [email protected].

RSM does not intend to hire entry level candidates who will require sponsorship now OR in the future (i.e. F-1 visa holders). If you are a recent U.S. college / university graduate possessing 1-2 years of progressive and relevant work experience in a same or similar role to the one for which you are applying, excluding internships, you may be eligible for hire as an experienced associate.

RSM will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable law, including but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For additional information regarding RSM’s background check process, including information about job duties that necessitate the use of one or more types of background checks, click here.

At RSM, an employee’s pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.

Compensation Range: $69,800 - $115,500