Acumen Fiscal Agent

Business Systems Analyst

Acumen Fiscal Agent

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Arizona • United States

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About the role

  • Own end‑to‑end UKG configuration across timekeeping, pay rules, accruals, payroll calendars, and retro logic
  • Design and maintain calculation rules that correctly interpret worked time, premiums, and policy exceptions
  • Serve as final authority on how business requirements are implemented in UKG
  • Ensure predictable payroll outcomes through deliberate configuration and testing
  • Own payroll close mechanics, cutoff rules, and audit checkpoints
  • Partner with Payroll Ops and Tax to prevent defects before they reach production
  • Translate HR policies into accrual engines that balance compliance with operational reality
  • Own balance logic, caps, resets, carryover, and corrections
  • Minimize manual adjustments through system‑first design
  • Own functional logic for inbound and outbound integrations (EVV, rates, benefits, GL, tax files)
  • Validate mapping, assumptions, and downstream impact of changes
  • Ensure failures are visible, explainable, and resolved quickly
  • Design UAT scenarios that reflect real‑world payroll risk
  • Define pass/fail criteria and approve or reject releases
  • Lead change impact analysis and configuration documentation
  • Establish and enforce UKG configuration standards and guardrails
  • Reduce vendor dependency through internal expertise
  • Continuously simplify and harden the platform as programs scale
  • Posture by familiarizing themselves with all policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines and act.

Requirements

  • **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
  • - Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • - Direct experience with **UKG** (multiple implementations strongly preferred)
  • - 5+ years of experience in business systems analysis and/or enterprise SaaS platform configuration ownership (timekeeping/payroll strongly preferred)
  • - Demonstrated experience translating policy and operational workflows into system rules/configuration with strong attention to auditability and risk
  • - Experience leading functional testing/UAT (scenario design, defect triage, go/no-go readiness)
  • - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to diagnose issues at the configuration/workflow/data level
  • - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including ability to push back respectfully and arbitrate tradeoffs
  • - Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team
  • **PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
  • - Experience supporting multi-state operations and/or compliance-heavy environments
  • - Familiarity with payroll/tax/GL impacts and reconciliation concepts (functional understanding)
  • - Experience with change governance and release management in SaaS enterprise platforms
  • - Experience creating durable documentation standards for configuration and system behavior
  • - Experience working with cross-functional teams in a tech and healthcare environment
  • __**COMMUNICATION SKILLS**__
  • - Excellent communication and relationship skills with all stakeholders, including clients, state entities, and colleagues
  • - Ability to effectively and respectfully interact with client base that has varying levels of ability, educational backgrounds, authority, and ethnicities
  • - Ability to maintain confidentiality
  • - Ability to speak in public, including trainings
  • - Ability to communicate effectively with diverse internal and external customers to accomplish a task or reach an understanding diplomatically and respectfully
  • __**RESPONSIBILITIES AS A TEAM MEMBER**__
  • - Takes personal responsibility for actions. This is demonstrated through owning problems, problem solving and not projecting problems or failures to others or the "system" if not warranted
  • - Demonstrates excellence in work standards, is tenacious in completing tasks
  • - Able to effectively problem solve and make decisions. To include resolving crisis situations and developing resolutions between parties
  • - Works well with other team members and departments
  • - Demonstrates the ability to interact and cooperate using respectful relations in order to efficiently accomplish mutual goals and assignments
  • - Requests support from team with ample time to accommodate the support request in order to meet deadlines
  • - Ensures effectiveness in processes to achieve/seek best practice
Benefits
  • **♥️What's in It for You?**
  • - **16 paid holidays, including your birthday!** We believe celebrating you is just as important as the work you do.
  • - Paid Time Off and Paid Sick Time
  • - Employee Recognition Program
  • - Employee Assistance Program
  • - Referral Program, get extra rewards for referring your friends to work with Acumen!
  • - Paid Parental Leave
  • - Be a part of a mission driven culture where you can make a real impact
  • - Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
  • - 401(k) with company match
  • - Voluntary benefits, including Pet Insurance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
UKG configurationbusiness systems analysisenterprise SaaS platform configurationfunctional testingUAT scenario designauditabilityrisk managementdocumentation standardspayroll mechanicsintegration logic
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsstakeholder managementindependent workcross-functional teamworkrelationship buildingconfidentialitypublic speakingdiplomatic communication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business AdministrationBachelor’s degree in Information TechnologyBachelor’s degree in Computer Science