Functional Analyst

Functional Analyst Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Duration: 12-month, Contract to potential hire (local candidates preferred) Pay: $35.00 - $45.00/hr.

• Work directly with business team members, developers, and user community to identify business needs and interpret them as application requirements primarily related to time and attendance/payroll systems.
• Configure complex business pay and entitlement rules in the application pertaining to state and federal labor laws such as overtime, vacation, guarantee, grace pay etc.
• Assist the business with the creation, testing and implementation of feature enhancements with web-based time and attendance/payroll applications.
• Provide second level support.
• Draft requirements and specifications documentation, complete to signoff and validate deliverables to specifications.
• Function as primary liaison between business and developers
• Write and execute functional test scripts and coordinate with other analysts for system integration testing.
• Learn about complex business and facilitate initiatives and decisions across many user groups.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 5 years of experience in functional analysis role, preferably on a time and attendance system.
• US citizens or Green card holders only.

• Team-orientation with a desire to build positive, effective relationships.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Proven experience in software requirements elicitation
• Being proactive in organizing people and tasks in order to meet deadlines.
• Ability to question whether certain functionality is a must have or not in order to control scope
• Thinking through problems and suggested solutions to identify strengths and weaknesses in the solution with an eye to future supportability and growth
• Active listening: Asking questions in order to ensure that what is being said is being fully understood
• Proactive communication: Consistently keep management and team members advised on progress through effective communication.
• On time development of user stories, application requirements, and/or process flow diagrams
• Use of various requirements elicitation techniques, such as end user interviews, job shadowing, brainstorming, business process analysis and process flow documentation, facilitation.
• The ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Creative problem-solving skills.
• Managing conflicting priorities and gaining consensus across multiple user groups
• Committed and enthusiastic approach to supporting business customers and end users.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with time and attendance systems and configuration of complex pay rules.
• Experience with a formal SDLC
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment.
• Formal training or certification in Business Analysis, group facilitation
• Experience with SQL queries (Nice to have)