GIT Business Analyst - HR

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DESCRIPTION & REQUIREMENTS:

Position Overview:

Position Overview

The Business Analyst (BA) acts as a key intermediary between the business community and IT to define, collect, clarify and translate business requirements into IT functional requirements documentation, process models, and data models from which applications and solutions are designed and developed.

This is a Business Analyst (BA) role supporting the global HR functions including Corporate, Shared Services, and Business Units. The Business Analyst is an active participant in all phases of the project lifecycle and will be required to work closely with a variety of internal and external business partners to ensure that all business requirements are met. This position will also have responsibility for providing ongoing oversight and service management for application life cycle management and SLAs.

An ideal candidate for this role must be able to assess and review information gathered and seek clarification as needed to ensure a robust understand and translation of genuine business needs into functional technology requirements.

As we drive the adoption of the Agile/Scrum methodology as our primary approach to solution innovation and development the BA should expect to be a key contributor to a variety of Scrum teams across functional business areas.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities (Top 5-8 core responsibilities)

·  Business Partnering:  Provide support to the business on all Information Technology related issues and initiatives:
·  Analyze business requirements (e.g., functional and technical requirements, information need, business processes) by conducting information-gathering sessions with clients, analyzing the information and prioritizing the requirements to gain understanding of the business needs.
·  Develop process models based on business requirements in order to determine the completeness of the information and process components.
·  Develop logical data model based on business requirements in order to determine the completeness of the information and process components (e.g., Data Flow Diagram, Entity Relationship Models).
·  Research and assess technology solution options to meet business requirements, including leading vendor assessments, solution evaluations, and RFPs to finalize technology selections
·  Map feature / function requests to business outcomes and work with the business to understand business case/value vs. cost of implementation of new technology solutions.
·  Deployment/ Projects: 
·  Conduct surveys, interviews and other data collection activities to facilitate the documentation of business requirements, use cases, and/or user stories.
·  Develop testing, implementation, data conversion or application support strategies in order to ensure quality delivery of applications. Maintain traceability of requirements through testing and implementation.
·  Support business in development of change impact assessments, training plans, and communications
·  Service Level Management: 
·  Perform application knowledge transfer upon deployment with application support teams. Partner with support teams to analyze support issues, understand root cause, and evaluate potential fixes.
·  Ensure robust system documentation including process flows, data flows and system requirements/use cases, and ensure documentation is kept up to date as solutions are evolved.

Education Requirements:   Bachelor's Degree with 2 – 5 years of relevant work experience

Related Work Experience:   2-5 years of experience

·  Understanding and experience with HR business processes, services and technologies.
·  Preference:  Experience with Workday, Ultipro Payroll, Cornerstone on Demand, and other similar HR solutions.
·  Business Partner Knowledge: Knowledge of business partners (such as HR COE, HR Operations, HR service provider) in their context: industry trends and competitive pressures, strategies and plans, organizational structure, decision-making process, contacts, technology infrastructure and systems.
·  Data Modeling: Knowledge of data modeling procedures and the ability to identify and clearly define the necessary data entities (e.g., persons, places, things, concepts and events) and associations between them.
·  Process Modeling: Knowledge of process modeling procedures and the ability to decompose business processes by taking into account software and system capabilities and to ensure reuse, maintainability and efficiency.
·  IT Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the key directional trends and emerging technologies in the IT industry. Includes knowledge of the key vendors, their strategic and tactical plans, and internal/external advisory services.
·  Experience developing and managing functional and non-functional requirements, test cases and test plans.
·  Experience in working in a global, virtual environment across IT Services groups is a plus
·  Experience planning and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users.
·  Demonstrated profeciency in using requirement management tools.
·  Understanding of Agile\DevOps project methodolgy.
·  Experience with project deployment and management skills including Agile and Waterfall methodologies
·  Consumer packaged goods business knowledge/understanding is a plus
·  Ability to work within a team environment as well as independently.
·  Strong communication, time management and client management skills
·  Ability to prioritize tasks and make decisions within established guidelines and policies
·  Excellent customer service skills; strong analytical and problem solving skills
·  Ability to explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and fosters

Leadership Behaviors:  

·  DRIVE INNOVATION :  Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business (encompassing everything from continuous improvement to new product and package innovation)
·  COLLABORATE WITH SYSTEM, CUSTOMERS, and OTHER STAKEHOLDERS :  Develop and leverage relationships with stakeholders to appropriately stretch and impact the System (Company and Bottler)
·  ACT LIKE AN OWNER :  Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders
·  INSPIRE OTHERS :  Inspire people to deliver our mission and 2020 Vision, demonstrate passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible
·  DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS :  Develop self and support others’ development to achieve full potential

Growth Behaviors:

·  Growth Mindset:  Demonstrates Curiosity.  Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
·  Smart Risk:  Makes bold decisions/recommendations
·  Externally Focused:  Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices, or ideas.
·  Performance Driven & Accountable:  Has high performance standards.  Outperforms her/his peers.
·  Fast/Agile:  Removes barriers to move faster.  Experiments and adapts.  Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
·  Empowered:  Brings solutions instead of problems.  Challenges the status quo.  Has the courage to take an unpopular stance. 

Functional Skills:  

·  Gather or analyze business requirements by conducting information-gathering sessions, (e.g., audience analysis, needs analysis, delta analysis, validation sessions) analyzing the information and prioritizing the requirements to prepare the education & training strategy.
·  Analyze business requirements (e.g., functional and technical requirements, information need, business processes) by conducting information-gathering sessions with clients, analyzing the information and prioritizing the requirements to gain understanding of the business needs.
·  Collaborate with clients to jointly identify the business systems requirements to support their business plans.
·  Create and refine conceptual alternatives of business process, technology design and blueprint or infrastructure assessment to create the physical environment needed to develop, test, train and deploy the solution.
·  Design business transactions based on business requirements in order to determine the completeness of the information and process components.

Honesty and integrity have always been cornerstone values of The Coca-Cola Company. Our passion for people of integrity mirrors our spirited drive for total quality in our brands. These and other elements allow the company to sustain strategic practices and drive business performance. The Personnel Integrity Assurance Program is another step toward making The Coca-Cola Company the premier workplace. This process includes a pre-employment background investigation that applies to all applicants, employees, and contractors of the company. The scope of this inquiry may cover such elements as education, employment history, a criminal history check, reference checks, and a pre-employment drug screen. Designated countries or sensitive positions within the company may have more stringent standards.

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands and more than 3,800 beverage choices. Led by Coca-Cola, one of the world's most valuable and recognizable brands, our Company portfolio features 20 billion-dollar brands, many of which are available in reduced-, low- or no-calorie options. Our billion-dollar brands include Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Sprite, vitaminwater and Powerade. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, we are the No. 1 provider of both sparkling and still beverages. More than 1.9 billion servings of our beverages are enjoyed by consumers in more than 200 countries each day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that reduce our environmental footprint, create a safe, inclusive work environment for our associates, and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. For more information, visit Coca-Cola Journey at http://www.coca-colacompany.com/homepage Coca-Cola Beverages (Shanghai) Ltd. an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, provides marketing and technical/quality services to The Coca-Cola Company in China.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.