Sr. HRIS Functional Analyst

Title: Sr. HRIS Functional Analyst

Employee Classification: Sr. HRIS Functional Analyst

Campus: University of North Texas - System Administration

Division: SYS-Human Resources

Sub Division-Department: SYS-Human Resources

Department: SYS-Human Resources-910600

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Commensurate with experience

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

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The UNT System Human Resources Department is one department made of a team of teams that supports various constituencies and component institutions within our UNT System Enterprise while working together to achieve the vision of becoming an enterprise that is values-driven and customer-focused with an emphasis on excellence, curiosity, and innovation. There are exciting things on the horizon, and we are looking for experienced and innovative HR professionals to join our journey.

The Human Resources Department at the University of North Texas System is seeking to hire a Sr. HRIS Functional Analyst to join our team. This position performs highly complex (senior level) HCM ERP functional systems support work. Work involves providing support for departmental functional users for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. The Senior HRIS Functional Analyst provides expertise and support to core HR systems through system support, configuration, process design and improvement, data accuracy, analytics, and integrations.

Consult with business partners to research, document, implement, and execute new and/or revised HR programs. This position also serves as a technical point of contact for assigned functional areas. Act as the liaison between business teams, application vendors and IT for system integrations, enhancements and issue fixes;
Responsible for translating business needs to system design, conduct system/data analysis, and participating in testing and deployment activities. This role blends deep expertise in People Soft HCM modules with advanced analytics capabilities using Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric to support data-driven decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate is a collaborative problem-solver who excels at translating business requirements into system configurations, reporting solutions, and streamlined processes.

This position reports to Sr. Director of HRIS.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, business information systems or related field; and six years of progressively responsible experience in HR or IT providing direct HRIS support; or any equivalent combination of experience, education.

Knowledge of People Soft HCM with involvement in direct support and configuration of People Soft HCM enterprise application. Technical knowledge of People Soft HCM. Ability to lead and make changes to configure, setup and troubleshoot ERP functionality. Strong understanding of Core HR, benefits, compensation, recruitment, learning management, performance management and other HR business processes. Experience with data integration between internal systems and key external partners.

Analytic skills with an understanding of the concepts and issues unique to the management of HR data and People Soft HCM. Ability to be a liaison between functional users and technical support teams. Familiar with relational database concepts. Strong experience in business process evaluation and documentation. Ability to debug, understand and modify SQL and/.or PL/SQL code to extract data from relational database.

Advanced SQL query and data analysis/reporting skill. Knowledge of MS…