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Senior Business System Analyst (Human Resources)

Location: Columbus, OH | Employment Type: Full-time | Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level | Job Function: Information Technology | Industries: Food and Beverage Manufacturing.

About Us

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products. Our retail brands include Marzetti® dressings and dips, New York Bakery™ garlic breads, and Sister Schubert's® dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden® dressings, Chick-fil-A® sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings® sauces, Arby's® sauces, Subway® sauces, and Texas Roadhouse® steak sauces and frozen rolls. Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food. Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.

Overview

We kindly request that recruitment agencies and staffing firms refrain from submitting unsolicited resumes to our company. Any resumes sent without a prior agreement and proper submittal into the ATS will be considered the property of The Marzetti Company, and we reserve the right to contact those candidates without any obligation to pay a fee.

• We are looking for candidates local to Columbus, OH at this time.

With the completion of The Marzetti Company's business‑led ERP transformation, The Marzetti Company has graduated to a comprehensive, cloud‑based, state‑of‑the‑art integrated ERP solution. The ERP solution will be maintained and improved through the establishment of a Sustain organization. Each business process area will have a team of partnered information technology (IT) and business team members who collaborate to optimize the company's return on the SAP investment and deliver benefits at scale through enhancements to the processes, data, and integrated technical solution.

The Senior Business Analyst for Human Resources will be the liaison between the business and IT and will be responsible for understanding the needs of the business for HR Systems, inclusive of Applications, Systems, and Processes Integrated with HR systems and processes.

The Senior Business Analyst will learn business processes and related applications, engage in all phases of the application development lifecycle (e.g., requirements gathering, analysis, design, test, implementation, and support), test and train end‑users on new applications, features, or fixes, and provide support to business teams for troubleshooting and solution services. The Senior Business Analyst may serve as an experienced member of a project team, or work on enhancements and fixes to HR Applications, SAP and other current state systems and will report to the Human Resources IT Solution Owner II.

Responsibilities

• Assist and/or own the planning, design and development of new applications and enhancements to existing applications.
• Meet independently with decision makers, systems owners, and end‑users to define business requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve business systems issues.
• Leverage technical expertise to identify opportunities to review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems while remaining fit‑to‑standard and minimizing custom development.
• Define, design, and document solutions including but not limited to requirements, business flows, integration process flows, and functional design documents.
• Perform cost‑benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems/solutions to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Assist and/or own the deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications.
• Participate in system unit test, integration test, user acceptance testing, and other formal and information test activities to test both happy path and non‑happy path test scenarios.
• Maintain close collaboration and relationships with the IT Solution Owner, business, Managed Service Provider, and the enterprise IT team.
• Embrace and comply with solution governance and methodology.
• Build and manage project plans using project management best practices including estimating, budgeting, risk and issue management, milestone management, and status reporting.
• Ability to perform duties independently under minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 6 to 8 years' experience as a Business Analyst or related role.
• Demonstrated experience with requirement elicitation techniques, as‑is and to‑be analysis and business process modeling.
• Demonstrated experience with SDLC business validation documentation (i.e. User Requirements Specifications, Functional specifications) including technical documentation such as Design specification, Configuration specifications, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with systems integration methodologies and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process for transaction and analytics.
• Demonstrated experience managing small projects—including project planning, risk and issue management, estimating and budgeting, and status reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Manufacturing industry experience desired.
• SAP S4/HANA experience is desired.
• HRIS system experience preferred.
• Kronos Work Force (WFC or WFM) experience preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with HR Integrations and Architecture.
• Knowledge and experience in at least two HR processes – Payroll, Timekeeping, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Management, Onboarding, Offboarding.
• Experience with Data Analytics and Reporting.

Skills/Abilities

• Strong analytical and interpersonal/communication skills.
• Ability to understand and document process flows.
• Ability to take complex business requirements and simplify.
• Ability to look at alternatives and complete an options analysis.
• Ability to be open to change; strong listening skills.
• Ability to focus on the details and make them clear both verbally and in written form.
• Ability to lead discussions and solicit input in a professional manner.
• Ability to multi‑task and organize effectively to meet users' expectations while working as part of a larger team.
• Great time management skills with the desire to complete projects on time.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.