HRIS Analyst II

Company Description

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups

Job Description

Pay Range: $76,550 to $95,700 per year.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide functional and technical support for various platforms in the HRIS landscape, to include configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and end-user support.
• Conducts or participates in requirements gathering, design, and architecture.
• Implement system configuration changes due to new release, enhancements, fixes and overall enterprise structure changes in various applications (Lawson, SmartRecruiters, Clickboarding, Kronos, AbsenceSoft, etc.)
• Participate in development and maintenance of Business Process framework; maintain documentation related to HR systems and related processes; conduct training on HR systems and related processes.
• Supports the development and adherence to HRIS Change Management Processes and Policies.
• Maintains data integrity across platforms by querying and analyzing data.
• Develop and comply with required data and reporting standards.
• Partners with HRIS leadership to support data management, data warehousing, and complex reporting.
• Foster and maintain positive relationships with internal business partners, HRIS customer base, and external vendors.
• Engage in support of data integrations; participate in integration development, testing, and troubleshooting with various vendors and internal teams.
• Support complex analytics and reporting from HRIS and related/integrated systems.
• Ensure successful completion of Root Cause Analysis for all critical and high impact incidents; enable resolution and related communication as appropriate.
• Support Application Security across multiple HRIS platforms; adhere to security policies.
• Maintain knowledge of regulatory and contractual requirements, and internal policies; ensure compliance in HR systems and related processes.
• Provide support to business partners with routine and ad-hoc reporting using MS SQL, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports, Excel, Access, etc.
• Partner with HRIS Technical Lead, Information Technology, and vendors to maintain system infrastructure.
• Ensures system compliance with data security and privacy requirements.
• Maintains knowledge of trends and developments with HRIS providers, vendors, and technology.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of data and analytics tools, to include Oracle SQL Developer, SSMS, Crystal Reports, PowerBI, etc.; ability to develop and maintain complex SQL, PL/SQL queries.
• Experience with large-scale data integration and reporting. Understanding of data requirements in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of HR practices, federal and state regulations; demonstrated ability to develop and implement compliant solutions.
• Experience with various technologies, frameworks and processes, such as data modeling, data flow mapping, requirements gathering, testing and data validation techniques.
• Uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or develops appropriate solutions to issues that arise. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and work within cross- functional teams.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills; review and analyze data to identify and resolve problems.
• Excellent customer service skills, ability to interact with all levels of internal and external personnel, and have the ability to exercise discretion with highly confidential information.
• Excellent organizational skills, self-starter, ability to set priorities with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Experience maintaining strict confidentiality of data and information.
• Strong planning and project management skills.
• Experience in understanding and translating the priorities of the business. 
• Track record of strong business partnership and cross functional collaboration within a dynamic, fast paced environment; a strategic leader who takes initiative and ownership.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human Resources Management, or related field.
• 3+ years of progressively increasing experience supporting HRIS and related integrations.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to translate technical information to a non-technical audience at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in production support environment following established processes and guidelines.
• Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, unit test, system test, deployment, and production support.
• Report writing expertise in various reporting and dashboarding tools (SQL, Crystal Reports, Power BI, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent collaboration with technical and functional business partners to develop and scale creative solutions to complex circumstances.
• Ability to work independently, managing multiple projects. Ability to multitask on multiple projects in various phases.
• Ability to lead others, direct and indirect.
• SHRM certification a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.