Sr Payroll Systems Analyst

Department Overview
This position is in the Payroll, Timekeeping and Labor Distribution Service Center, within OHSU Finance. OHSU Finance is the division within Oregon Health & Science University charged with the overall responsibility of accurately processing, reporting, and interpreting the university's financial transactions. We support healing, teaching, discovery, and outreach at OHSU by delivering quality financial information and services to the institution, its sponsors, and the community. Under the direction of the VP of Financial Operations, this role is critical in providing expertise in reporting, analyzing and interpreting Payroll, Timekeeping and Labor Distribution data to support informed strategic decisions. Function/Duties of Position

Reporting to the Director Payroll Analytics and Customer Support, the Senior Payroll & Timekeeping Systems Reporting Analyst is a strategic role responsible for driving data-driven payroll operations and delivering actionable insights across all payroll, timekeeping, labor distribution (LD). This role is critical in supporting the payroll, timekeeping and LD team with complex data and queries to ensure compliance of payroll operations and to support informed business decisions.

The ideal candidate combines deep payroll, timekeeping and wage and hour expertise, strong systems expertise and strong analytical capabilities.
BI Solution Development & Data Management

- Collaborate with customers and the Payroll Reporting team members to understand business requirements and design, develop, implement and support complex solutions utilizing Cognos Analytics, SQL, Cognos Event Manager and additional BI data visualization products and tools.

- Develop, maintain and monitor metrics, dashboards, and recurring reports to measure current and desired state, and incorporate into future strategy and initiatives.

- Respond to requests for data analyzing the payroll, timekeeping and Labor Distribution (LD) data. Provide technical assistance for individuals needing assistance in analyzing and interpreting data.

- Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for deliverables including but not limited to specifications and process flows.

- Ensure that leadership has the data and analytics available in an easy to digest and actionable format.

- Proactively identify opportunities for reporting solutions to meet business needs and strategic initiatives and create proposals and accompanying technical and functional specification documentation.

- Develop solutions that adhere to data governance, data security, best practices and established report standards. This work ensures that the information assets of OHSU are leveraged to enhance financial and operational decisions and to meet institution goals.

- In conjunction with other team members, establish and maintain standard core payroll, timekeeping and labor distribution reports and metrics that can be utilized in fulfilling ah-hoc user requests as well as reports that can be deployed to users to run as needed based on security profiles.

- Provide critical data needed for OHSU Financials and Budgeting to support workforce cost modeling, payroll accruals, forecasting, budgeting activities.

- Ensure data accuracy and integrity across payroll systems and reporting outputs.

- Respond to requests for information (RFI) including RFI for collective bargaining agreements and public requests related to Payroll, Timekeeping, Labor Distribution (LD).

- Respond to public data requests for Payroll, Timekeeping and Labor Distribution (LD).

- Provide ad-hoc reports and SQL queries to the Payroll, Timekeeping and LD teams. Develop and maintain SQL queries and reports for payroll, timekeeping and LD to support complex reviews and pay period processing needs.

Program & Project Management

- Management of small projects involving systems and reporting solutions that have implications for ongoing payroll, timekeeping and labor distribution efforts