Colombia Job Openings
Scotiabank
Technical Business Analyst Specialist
Bogota
FULL TIME
October 27, 2024
The Role
Successful candidate will have a results-oriented ad curious mindset with strong technical skills, will work closely with cross functional teams, including developers, solutions architects, and business teams globally to develop and implement solutions that are scalable; and will deliver excellence and value to our business partners and customers.
The successful candidate contributes to the overall success of the Payroll, Time, Attendance & Compensation / GHRT team, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.
Accountabilities
- The incumbent champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
- Independently resolve complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs, by applying their HR and technological knowledge to the design of methodologies, models, and/or systems solutions. This may involve rapid prototyping, with requirements and solutions developed on an iterative basis that provides interim deliverables until a final production solution is created. This includes conducting research and analysis, accurately and clearly defining user requirements and processes, participating in the reengineering of the HR business process workflows, and liaising with the users.
- Manage multiple small HR technology projects and/or manage specific sections of large projects to implement technology solutions to HR business problems. This involves planning and scheduling resources, developing detailed project plans, monitoring progress against planned objectives and securing consensus and co-operation from users and senior management. Ensure each project delivers quality products/functions in a timely manner which meets HR business requirements and provides an enhanced employee experience.
- Participate in the review of Quality Assurance (QA) test strategies for assigned projects/initiatives to ensure the planned testing is comprehensive and consistent with the business requirements. Support QA testing by analyzing defects to: (i) provide clarification of business requirements; (ii) provide clarification of technical specifications; (iii) define which defects need to be resolved for implementation; and (iv) negotiate the severity classification of defects with the user.
- Participate in the systems implementation process by defining business/technical requirements and processes, developing test strategies and test cases, performing testing, defining user procedures and workflows, developing conversion and implementation strategies, verifying conversion, providing user documentation, providing user training, and providing post-implementation support.
- Ensures all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.
- The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that management is kept informed, and that problems and issues are escalated appropriately.
- Continually acquire and enhance knowledge of the Division's business strategies and policies, risk management practices and methodologies, product offerings, financial markets, financial instruments, regulatory requirements, Back Office processes, and rapidly changing technology to be able to provide effective business solutions and services to the end user business lines.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct, and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
Education / Experience / Other Information
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, information technology, computer science or a related discipline, along with 4-6 years of practical experience is required.
- Proficiency with SQL (must), MS Excel, and Power Point (Programming language knowledge)
- Excellent communication skills required. Ability to select the most appropriate method of communication and to clearly prepare a variety of business communications, e.g. Business Requirements Documents, Functional Specifications, and project implementation / strategy documents.
- Proficiency in English is required (B1-Intermediate)
- Preferred or Comparable, 5+ years of experience on SAP Success Factors and/or SAP Payroll on premise and/or ECP (nice to have)
- Preferred or Comparable, 2 to 4 years of experience on Business Analysis (must)
- The systems developed are on-line real time, mission critical applications to support the trading and risk management operations where the consequence of implementing functionally based on inaccurate requirements could expose the Bank to significant losses or undue risk.
- Well-developed verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate and articulate the underlying message effectively with different audiences, e.g. branch staff, senior management in Information Technology Solutions, internal business clients, and external vendors.
- The incumbent must be a creative, self-starting, results-oriented, and highly motivated individual with very good technical analytical skills to apply this knowledge to independently resolve complex business problems that are multi-dimensional.
- Working knowledge of Agile approach.
- The incumbent must also possess a very good understanding of current Electronic Data Processing practices, systems development techniques, including requirements specification and testing methodologies, real-time analytical and formal modelling tools, HR systems/processes and keep current with rapidly changing technology.
- Ability to work effectively as a team member in cross-functional project teams.
- Ability to work independently under the general guidance of the Senior Manager, Recognition & International Payroll
- Knowledge of Human Resource practices are required. Knowledge of processes and systems used within Human Resources Information Systems including Payroll are strongly preferred but not required.
Location(s): Colombia : Bogota : Bogota
Scotia Tech is a business unit within Scotia GBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The Scotia Tech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.
At Scotia Tech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotia Tech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
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