Human Resources Information System (HRMS) Business Analyst, Canadian Tire
Primary Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Schedule: Full-time
Job Posting: 05/01/2009
Unposting Date: 05/08/2009
Description
Canadian Tire offers employees a wealth of challenging and rewarding career opportunities. We are a successful and growing company that values diversity and innovative thinking, and fosters a culture of performance and accountability. We invest in the growth and development of our employees by offering a wide range of career paths, comprehensive training and leadership development opportunities. We reward our employees with a unique mix of benefits from store discount to flexible health to profit-sharing. Our employees are passionate owners of our company who help build our reputation as one of the best places to work in Canada.
Join our talented team of over 50,000 employees and develop your career through our broad and diverse group of businesses which include, Canadian Tire Corporation, Canadian Tire Retail, Canadian Tire Associate Stores, Canadian Tire Petroleum, PartSource, Canadian Tire Financial Services and Mark’s Work Wearhouse.
Department Mandate:
The Human Resource department is accountable for developing and maintaining people practices that drive employee engagement and productivity.
Within HR, the HR Infrastructure team’s accountability is to build the HR technology infrastructure, tools and processes to effectively manage our talent base. A strong and sustaining infrastructure will provide quality decision support that enables effective organizational people decisions. This position is a full time position and reports to the Manager, HRIS Operations
Position Summary:
The HRMS Business Analyst plays a key role in achieving the Infrastructure team’s mandate by providing analytic support on key objectives. The Analyst is expected to often work independently in an ambiguous and complex environment, making effective decisions after evaluating alternatives. S/he is responsible for managing assigned initiatives from concept to implementation with minimal supervision under stringent conditions.
The successful incumbent will:
- Effectively translate business requirements into business functionality in the HR Applications
- Identify and document key HR functional business processes that will form the basis for training and standard operating procedures for all HR departments and/or the business
- Work closely with HR project team members and external implementation partner to ensure business processes are aligned with the agreed upon functionality of PeopleSoft HCMS, and other HR Applications, and refine as needed
- Analyze and facilitate business process reviews as they relate to automating Human Resources business practices within HCMS and secondary systems
- Analyze information on a continual basis to identify trends, issues, root causes
- Identify business process opportunities for improvement
- Participate in recommending process controls to ensure continuous improvement through System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Position Responsibilities:
- Understand and translate business requirements and product functionality into documented business processes
- Analyze HR business functional processes and catalogue, edit, and manipulate documentation for its intended purpose (training, SOP’s, etc.)
- Assist with process improvements and the development of strategies to implement successful outcomes
- Conduct fit-gap analysis
- Prepare detailed business requirements documents (BRD) and functional requirements documents (FRD)
- Work with HR and I.T. professionals on the project to assess and recommend business solutions
- Work in a team where the mentality is conducive to new and innovative ways of doing things
- Look for creative and new methods for developing solutions for the HR business requirements
- Testing of PeopleSoft application, including interfaces, in either “out of the box” or customized formats
- Provide second level application support – assisting the HRMS support analysts in responding to users questions regarding application use and report writing.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years experience using PeopleSoft 8.0 or higher, specific modules include Payroll for North America, Time and Labour, Base Benefits, and Workforce Administration
- Minimum 2 years experience documenting HR business requirements, developing detailed functional requirement documents
- Minimum 1 year experience developing, executing, and documenting detailed test plans
- Post-secondary degree and/or equivalent experience in Human Resources
- Minimum 1 year experience with developing PeopleSoft Queries
- Functional understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with attention to detail
- Proven ability to work independently, and as part of a collaborative team
- Proven ability to complete multiple assignments within stated timelines
- Ability to work effectively on multiple concurrent tasks in a demanding environment
- Effective conceptual, diagnostic, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible and exercise judgement in a dynamic environment
- Solid working knowledge of MS Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Outlook)
HOW TO APPLY:
CLICK HERE and apply online, by first making an account and signing in, on Canadian Tire’s career webpage.
