What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead HRIS Analyst position at Targa Resources?
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Lead HRIS Analyst (“Analyst”) is skilled in the management and support of one or more HRIS applications and provides support services to business users. The primary focus for the Analyst is to be responsible for maintaining and monitoring the Human Capital Management (HCM) /Human Resource Information Systems(HRIS) to maximize availability and performance, provide troubleshooting and corrective action to resolve business issues, and insures the usability and support for application enhancements and bug fixes. Secondarily the Analyst will provide similar support for other Corporate systems. The Analyst will act as a Subject Matter Expert for application functionality, solutions, training, and documentation. Although the Analyst position is not a pure development role, it will require the use of some development/programmer competencies to complete work efforts.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Maintain end-to-end understanding of functional aspects of application and associated business processes
Provide functional and/or technical direction/assistance for assigned applications
Monitor incoming service requests and incidents for assigned application(s)
Investigate and diagnose service requests or incidents according to their priority/rank, and identify the resolution and/or issue
Work directly with users to identify and resolve issues adversely impacting business processes
Define technical solutions ensuring considerations for system stability, performance, and ongoing maintainability
Identify solution alternatives to address issues raised throughout service request or incident lifecycle
Utilize 3rd parties and vendor support as defined within existing support arrangements, and escalate additional (billable) support to appropriate IT management for approval
Adheres to and champions the IT Governance programs (e.g. change management, communication, and release management)
Complete high level designs and associated estimates to meet defined requirements
Monitor application backlog (service requests, incidents) and keep open items updated with current efforts
Maintain documentation (run books, technical design, build, deployment, install guides) and process standards in area of responsibility along with regular audits to validate accuracy
Develop documentation and provide training to users as appropriate
Define potential improvement changes to resolve errors, prevent the recurrence of problems or improve system maintainability and stability for assigned applications
Provide input to IT Project Management Office to support clear and concise requirements definitions
Assist team members handling major incidents for assigned applications; identify the root cause and short or long term solutions
Informally mentor less experienced team members on an as needed basis
Prevent the replication of problems across multiple systems by sharing lessons learned and best practices with other team members and IT Management
Develops customer relationships by making efforts to listen and understand the customer; anticipating and providing solutions to customer needs; giving high priority to customer satisfaction
Other duties as assigned
MINIMUM ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, and/or equivalent work experience in a related field
5-8 years of experience supporting HRIS applications
3-5 years of experience with Oracle and SQL databases (including stored procedures, triggers and scripts)
2 years of experience in application development or a programming language
Familiarity with any of the HRIS products like Workday, SAP HCM, Oracle Fusion HCM, UKG, Kronos, ADP Vantage HCM, Lawson HCM, Oracle Taleo, Sumtotal, SilkRoad
Familiarity with ITIL concepts and the ability to follow problem, change, and incident management processes and procedures.
Familiarity with Sarbanes and Oxley IT Change management controls
Strong written and verbal communication skills with an aptitude for problem solving
Must be able to independently resolve issues and efficiently self-direct work activities based on the ability to capture, organize, and analyze information
Experience delivering solutions that align with business strategies
Experience troubleshooting complicated issues across multiple systems and driving to solutions
Experience supporting resources performing user acceptance, regression and other required system tests, ensuring that system and/or related integration issues that arise are identified, researched and closed in a timely manner
Experience providing technical solutions to non-technical individuals
Demonstrated team building skills
Ability to deal with internal employees and external business contacts while conveying a positive, service-oriented attitude
Willingness to travel to company locations (up to 5%)
Regular and reliable attendance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
ITIL v3 Foundations certified
Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile development methodologies
Working knowledge and experience in Microsoft Technologies (Microsoft Certifications)
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees’ beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa’s policies and applicable law. We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.