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Job Description

A distinguished University in Los Angeles is looking for a Sr. Business Analyst (Grant Management Systems) to join the IT team as both a technical and functional liaison between IT and the Office for Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP). They will play a pivotal role in enhancing the University's Workday enterprise system to support post-award grants management, compliance, financial analysis, and data reporting. This role will bridge technology and business needs by focusing on streamlining data collection, enhancing reporting efficiencies, and supporting the development of a Workday Grants Toolkit. The Sr. BA will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including ITS analysts, financial analysts, and the WD/ITS Advisory Committee, ensuring accurate, efficient, and integrated processes for sponsored research activities.

Their day to day will consist of collaborating with stakeholders across IT, Finance, and Sponsored Research to gather and analyze business requirements for integrating the pre-award (Cayuse) and post-award (Workday) systems, define requirements for developing a data warehousing solution to enhance grants management, compliance reporting, and financial analysis. They will also develop and document current and future-state process workflows for data collection, reporting, and grants management within Cayuse and Workday. This person will support the creation of automated reports and dashboards in Workday for HERD reporting, IDC recovery analysis, and internal/external reporting needs and act as a liaison between IT, Finance, and Research departments to foster alignment. Lastly, they will assist in developing the Workday Grants Toolkit, documenting workflows, integration mappings, and system enhancements for broader dissemination to other research forward institutions they are in partnership with.

We are a company committed to creating inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources Request Form (https://airtable.com/app21VjYyxLDIX0ez/shrOg4IQS1J6dRiMo) . The EEOC "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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Skills and Requirements

-5+ years of experience as a business analyst working within technical systems related to Grants Management (on a technical financial standpoint)

-Higher education work experience or hospital/medical research industry - ideally in grants management

-Grants management system (GMS) experience (such as Cayuse, Submittable, Instrumentl, Blackbaud, Good Grants, ApliFund, and more)

-Experience using Workday finance modules

-Strong documentation processes especially in the context of creating a process/documentation toolkit for business analysis and intelligence

-Project management tool proficiency such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet's etcs -Workday Report Writer experience

-Experience with Cayuse as a grants management system

-Tableau/Data Visualization tool experience

-Grant writing or RFP process experience

-Experience leading trainings to disseminate process improvement knowledge or change management around grants management system processes null

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].