Business Analyst HR And Modern Worker
Vector Logistics Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage · 5,001-10,000 employees
About the role
The Business Analyst will identify, design, and implement SAP HCM application solutions while managing system maintenance and user support. They will act as a liaison between business units and technical teams to ensure system enhancements and legal payroll updates are executed effectively.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must possess a 3-year Bachelor's degree or 4-year Diploma in Information Technology and at least 4 years of experience in a Business Analyst role. Proficiency in SAP ECC 6 with HCM, Microsoft 365, and web-based applications is required, along with strong project management and team leadership skills.
Full description
Vector Logistics
Business Analyst HR And Modern Worker
Permanent
Midrand
About us:
Going Beyond is in our DNA. It’s what makes us see opportunities in your supply chain where others see challenges. We provide solutions, where things can’t be done. Not because we know it all, but because we co-create the answers with you – the one who knows your business best. With our passionate and skilled people, our industry-leading systems and our world-class infrastructure, we can help you create a winning future. Are you in?
JOB PURPOSE
To work in conjunction with the Business to: Identify, design and specify application solutions that meet business requirements and achieve business benefits. Facilitate the implementation of identified solutions utilizing recognized project management methodologies. Support and maintain existing application solutions in the Business to ensure optimal use of the solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
SAP HCM Monthly Maintenance Life Cycle Assist the Support Team to resolve calls related to Human Resources (Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Payroll South Africa, Time and Attendance, Leave and absence management, Learning, Performance Management and system integration interfaces) requests across Vector Logistics Business Units. Coordinate the monthly system maintenance life cycle from receiving a helpdesk ticket, through the steps of problem analysis, root cause analysis, system config analysis, solution implementation, unit testing, user acceptance tests, change management and system updates. Lead the team in the monthly action list work sessions by determining priorities based on urgency and importance along with the relevant business owners and specialist users. Analise business requests to provide clear problem definitions and liaise with necessary technical experts/external consultants to resolve technical system issues related to the SAP HR Module. Guide the business and technical teams to provide sustainable solutions and system changes in line with the internal guiding principles and templates. Manage the ERP Landscapes to ensure continuous alignment between Development, Quality Assurance and Sandbox systems.
Modern Worker Environments Management
Intranet solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently HR Talent Management solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently HR Org Chart solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently. Workflow solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently.
External Services Management Monitor and ensure alignment of external services as specified in the contract agreement. Build and maintain healthy relationships with the relevant service providers. Ensure contract agreements are in place and up to date. Cost management and on time invoice payments are as per the agreement and approved purchase orders.
HCM Legal change updates. Manage the project to update the SAP system patches and payroll legal change patches for August and February tax submissions. Liaise with the Business experts, technical consultants, and application consultants to ensure that the patches are applied correctly and in line with legal and business expectations. Coordinate and oversee the user acceptance tests and sign off. Create go-live plans and coordinate the teams’ activities during the go-live.
Technical Expertise Provide ongoing advice and support on best practice to ensure continuous improvement within business systems and applications. Develop specialist knowledge of HR Systems, identify opportunities to deliver best value solutions to make recommendations to the Applications Manager. Identify opportunities to deliver best value solutions and make recommendations to the Applications Manager regarding the best use for applications applicable to HR processes.
System Opportunity Identification Support the Applications Manager and the Business in identifying IT application solutions to address key Business requirements within the following Human Resources functions: Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Payroll South Africa, Time and Attendance, Leave and absence management, Learning, Performance Management and data interfaces. Quantify savings and efficiencies related to these opportunities and draw up Business Case documentation for submission to the Applications Manager.
Application Development, Enhancement, and Implementation Serve as a liaison between the Business and technical consultants to ensure the implementation of identified system enhancements for all HCM related processes. Review and analyze technical specification documents prior to sign off by the Applications Manager and handover to developer(s). Execute on IT systems implementation projects. Meet with relevant Business representatives to establish, understand, and document detailed business requirements to be met by the project. Compile and agree a scope definition document as well as functional specification document and ensure that full sign off is achieved prior to implementation. Assist with the calculation of the business case and return on investment with relevant Business users and stakeholders. Prepare the project plan by engaging all relevant parties. Plan for project-related hardware and software requirements by liaising on an on-going basis with the infrastructure and technology teams. Compile and store project documentation (including business process flow charts, functional- and technical specifications, end user training material and project plans). Ensure constant communication with developers and full testing of the solution and identify and resolve problems or constraints prior to user acceptance testing. Work in conjunction and communicate with the Business to implement the system. Report on the realization of the Business case and identified KPI’s. Provide post-implementation support to all end-users. Prepared to take on the Team Lead role during project implementations.
SAP User Profile Maintenance Communicate with GRC team to assist with creation and maintenance of user profiles in SAP in keeping with risk and audit standards. Authorize user access for new and existing users via the User Authorization Request (UAR) workflow. Assist with resolving user profile audit queries
System Auditing Conduct regular system compliance audits and health checks for HR systems. Report on system non-compliance by users to the Applications Manager. Identify and highlight business risk to the Applications Manager because of non-compliance. Recommend compensating controls to the Applications Manager Follow the internal IT Governance Controls to ensure audit compliance.
Reporting Do requirements analysis and functional specification for any new report development that is requested by business. Maintain and proactively enhance reports. Work closely with the Data insights team to ensure data flow from all ERP systems to data warehousing and BI platforms are correct and validated. Understand the dashboards and reporting, source data to guide business in using these effectively for decision making. Support the technical and BI teams with data modelling and architecture design.
Integration Coordination Work closely with the rest of the Vector teams to address integration areas where HR data is shared with other applications (HR and non-HR systems). Follow and adhere to the company polies, Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA).
JOB PURPOSE
To work in conjunction with the Business to: Identify, design and specify application solutions that meet business requirements and achieve business benefits. Facilitate the implementation of identified solutions utilizing recognized project management methodologies. Support and maintain existing application solutions in the Business to ensure optimal use of the solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
SAP HCM Monthly Maintenance Life Cycle Assist the Support Team to resolve calls related to Human Resources (Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Payroll South Africa, Time and Attendance, Leave and absence management, Learning, Performance Management and system integration interfaces) requests across Vector Logistics Business Units. Coordinate the monthly system maintenance life cycle from receiving a helpdesk ticket, through the steps of problem analysis, root cause analysis, system config analysis, solution implementation, unit testing, user acceptance tests, change management and system updates. Lead the team in the monthly action list work sessions by determining priorities based on urgency and importance along with the relevant business owners and specialist users. Analise business requests to provide clear problem definitions and liaise with necessary technical experts/external consultants to resolve technical system issues related to the SAP HR Module. Guide the business and technical teams to provide sustainable solutions and system changes in line with the internal guiding principles and templates. Manage the ERP Landscapes to ensure continuous alignment between Development, Quality Assurance and Sandbox systems.
Modern Worker Environments Management
Intranet solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently HR Talent Management solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently HR Org Chart solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently. Workflow solution design (including change requests), ensuring that strategies, policies, standards and best practices are applied correctly and consistently.
External Services Management Monitor and ensure alignment of external services as specified in the contract agreement. Build and maintain healthy relationships with the relevant service providers. Ensure contract agreements are in place and up to date. Cost management and on time invoice payments are as per the agreement and approved purchase orders.
HCM Legal change updates. Manage the project to update the SAP system patches and payroll legal change patches for August and February tax submissions. Liaise with the Business experts, technical consultants, and application consultants to ensure that the patches are applied correctly and in line with legal and business expectations. Coordinate and oversee the user acceptance tests and sign off. Create go-live plans and coordinate the teams’ activities during the go-live.
Technical Expertise Provide ongoing advice and support on best practice to ensure continuous improvement within business systems and applications. Develop specialist knowledge of HR Systems, identify opportunities to deliver best value solutions to make recommendations to the Applications Manager. Identify opportunities to deliver best value solutions and make recommendations to the Applications Manager regarding the best use for applications applicable to HR processes.
System Opportunity Identification Support the Applications Manager and the Business in identifying IT application solutions to address key Business requirements within the following Human Resources functions: Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Payroll South Africa, Time and Attendance, Leave and absence management, Learning, Performance Management and data interfaces. Quantify savings and efficiencies related to these opportunities and draw up Business Case documentation for submission to the Applications Manager.
Application Development, Enhancement, and Implementation Serve as a liaison between the Business and technical consultants to ensure the implementation of identified system enhancements for all HCM related processes. Review and analyze technical specification documents prior to sign off by the Applications Manager and handover to developer(s). Execute on IT systems implementation projects. Meet with relevant Business representatives to establish, understand, and document detailed business requirements to be met by the project. Compile and agree a scope definition document as well as functional specification document and ensure that full sign off is achieved prior to implementation. Assist with the calculation of the business case and return on investment with relevant Business users and stakeholders. Prepare the project plan by engaging all relevant parties. Plan for project-related hardware and software requirements by liaising on an on-going basis with the infrastructure and technology teams. Compile and store project documentation (including business process flow charts, functional- and technical specifications, end user training material and project plans). Ensure constant communication with developers and full testing of the solution and identify and resolve problems or constraints prior to user acceptance testing. Work in conjunction and communicate with the Business to implement the system. Report on the realization of the Business case and identified KPI’s. Provide post-implementation support to all end-users. Prepared to take on the Team Lead role during project implementations.
SAP User Profile Maintenance Communicate with GRC team to assist with creation and maintenance of user profiles in SAP in keeping with risk and audit standards. Authorize user access for new and existing users via the User Authorization Request (UAR) workflow. Assist with resolving user profile audit queries
System Auditing Conduct regular system compliance audits and health checks for HR systems. Report on system non-compliance by users to the Applications Manager. Identify and highlight business risk to the Applications Manager because of non-compliance. Recommend compensating controls to the Applications Manager Follow the internal IT Governance Controls to ensure audit compliance.
Reporting Do requirements analysis and functional specification for any new report development that is requested by business. Maintain and proactively enhance reports. Work closely with the Data insights team to ensure data flow from all ERP systems to data warehousing and BI platforms are correct and validated. Understand the dashboards and reporting, source data to guide business in using these effectively for decision making. Support the technical and BI teams with data modelling and architecture design.
Integration Coordination Work closely with the rest of the Vector teams to address integration areas where HR data is shared with other applications (HR and non-HR systems). Follow and adhere to the company polies, Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA).
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QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THE ROLE
Qualifications and Experience
3 year Bachelor Degree or 4 year Diploma in Information Technology. More than 4 years’ experience in a Business Analyst role within the information technology environment. (SAP ECC 6 with HCM, Microsoft 365 and web-based applications) Demonstrated success in team leading and managing projects relating to superior performance and continuous improvement. Valid Code EB drivers' license
Skills and Competencies
Exposure to the following system will be an advantage: HR Interfaces, BesTime Time and Attendance system, workflow systems, Cornerstone (Recruitment, Learning and Performance Appraisals), Power BI, SAP BI, SharePoint, SAP products – Query Manager, Data Sync Manager, Variance Monitor, Siamese.
Knowledge Cost accounting principles and practices SAP R3 and BW utilization Costing principles, practices and performance indicators Business strategies, targets, processes and economics
Skills Business principles Business Process understanding System analysis skills Excellent end user knowledge in the Human Resources processes & systems Demonstrate business and system knowledge (within the Human Resources functional components.) Demonstrate a sound basic knowledge of the PAYE tax laws and labour acts. SAP Payroll Process. SAP Time Management Process.
Vector Logistics supports the principles of Employment Equity and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups in line with our Employment Equity Plan. If you have not heard from us within 3 to 4 weeks after submitting your application, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. We truly appreciate your interest in joining the Vector team and encourage you to stay connected for future opportunities that may align with your skills and career journey.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THE ROLE
Qualifications and Experience
3 year Bachelor Degree or 4 year Diploma in Information Technology. More than 4 years’ experience in a Business Analyst role within the information technology environment. (SAP ECC 6 with HCM, Microsoft 365 and web-based applications) Demonstrated success in team leading and managing projects relating to superior performance and continuous improvement. Valid Code EB drivers' license
Skills and Competencies
Exposure to the following system will be an advantage: HR Interfaces, BesTime Time and Attendance system, workflow systems, Cornerstone (Recruitment, Learning and Performance Appraisals), Power BI, SAP BI, SharePoint, SAP products – Query Manager, Data Sync Manager, Variance Monitor, Siamese.
Knowledge Cost accounting principles and practices SAP R3 and BW utilization Costing principles, practices and performance indicators Business strategies, targets, processes and economics
Skills Business principles Business Process understanding System analysis skills Excellent end user knowledge in the Human Resources processes & systems Demonstrate business and system knowledge (within the Human Resources functional components.) Demonstrate a sound basic knowledge of the PAYE tax laws and labour acts. SAP Payroll Process. SAP Time Management Process.
Vector Logistics supports the principles of Employment Equity and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups in line with our Employment Equity Plan. If you have not heard from us within 3 to 4 weeks after submitting your application, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. We truly appreciate your interest in joining the Vector team and encourage you to stay connected for future opportunities that may align with your skills and career journey.
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