ARIZONA DEPT OF ADMINISTRATION

Human Resources Division (HRD)

This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures

Main Office Location: 100 N 15th Ave # 301 Phoenix, AZ 85007

Salary: Up to 73,500.00 

Grade: 24

Open Until Filled: 

The Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA) Human Resources Division (HRD) is seeking a dedicated and analytical Business Analyst with a passion for optimizing HR Information Systems (HRIS). This pivotal role focuses on the application administration, support, and continuous improvement of our HRIS, ensuring that the system effectively meets the evolving needs of the State of Arizona.

As a Business Analyst, you will act as a subject matter expert in maintaining data integrity, conducting system tests for changes, and analyzing data flows to identify process improvement opportunities. You will be instrumental in implementing system enhancements and developing streamlined processes to maximize system capabilities. Collaborating closely with the HRIS technical team and other HRIS business units, your contributions will guarantee system stability and performance, providing robust support to our HR operations.

This is an exceptional opportunity for professionals who excel in a dynamic environment, offering their expertise to make a significant impact on the HR processes within the Arizona Department of Administration. Join us in this vital role as we continue to enhance our HR systems to better serve the State of Arizona.

The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

• Manage and support the absence management module of HRIS. Including analyzing annual and sick leave plans. Managing and redefining absence management employee groups when new business requirements are presented by stakeholders
• Effectively communicate changes that need to be made to employees annual leave plans. Pro-actively engage with agencies, statewide to identify absence management issues and collaborate on a well defined resolution
• Leading the way for the team on central HRIS transactions such as mass loads for our agency partners. Working with agency points of contact to rectify mass load errors
• Creating process levels and departments for agencies using the established table maintenance process. Additionally, this position performs other submitted tickets that require research and execution
• Troubleshooting complex history correction tickets
• Assist entry level analysts with creating standard work for common history corrections
• Identifying trends in the type of corrections the central team is receiving and providing keying guidance to agencies to reduce the number of history corrections
• Creating test plans, test scripts and leading HR testing when there is a change to the HRIS system. Assist in maintenance of data integrity in HRIS across all HR modules
• Ability to write SQL queries to pull large data sets for data analysis to problem solve

Knowledge of:

• HRIS system
• Understanding of State Absence Management and FMLA practices
• Excel and AMS
• SQL
• Business process analysis

Skills in:

• Intermediate analytical skills to evaluate current processes, gather documentation and suggest a more efficient business process
• Demonstrates strong customer service skills while working collaboratively across organizations

Ability to:

• Effectively translate business requirements into a FDD and training materials
  

• Bachelor's Degree and/or 5 years of experience in business analysis (or equivalent experience).

• Background and reference check, including state and federal criminal records fingerprint check

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

The Arizona Department of Administration offers a comprehensive benefits package to include:

• Sick leave
• Vacation with 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program)
• Health and dental insurance
• Retirement plan
• Life insurance and long-term disability insurance
• Optional employee benefits include short-term disability insurance, deferred compensation plans, and supplemental life insurance
  

By providing the option of a full-time or part-time remote work schedule, employees enjoy improved work/life balance, report higher job satisfaction, and are more productive. Remote work is a management option and not an employee entitlement or right. An agency may terminate a remote work agreement at its discretion.

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

• Participation in ASRS Lifetime Benefit Pension Plan after 27 weeks of employment

• If you have any questions please feel free to contact Christopher Langseth at christopher.langseth@azdoa.gov for assistance
• The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer