Senior Configuration Business Analyst-Alight Leave Solutions

Amazing Opportunity and Great Place to Work!

Seeking an expert in system configuration, custom work order management, and comprehensive testing to ensure system processes are validated before go-live.

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

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The Senior Configuration Business Analyst captures, documents, evaluates, and translates client requirements into functional and technical solutions for Alight's claim systems. They advise clients on best practices, configure systems, and perform comprehensive testing before implementation.

• Reviewing client leave and disability policies, documenting client requirements, and translating needs into the business requirements documents. Writing clear and concise business requirements ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible, unambiguous, traceable, and verifiable.
• Identifying process gaps or risks and providing Alight best practices, and data-driven solutions to the client. Leading the client through the Alight claims system including workflows and system demonstrations.
• Discussing employee and employer communications and obtaining redlines and client approval; implementing and configuring agreed upon versions.
• Conducting and improving test matrices, executing test scenarios, addressing configuration gaps, resolving issues, and securing client approval for user acceptance testing. Managing development tickets, client standups, and defect fix support.
• Maintaining accurate and timely delivery commitments in project tracking tools approved by management. Aligning custom configurations and development to the Alight development release schedule.
• Improving existing internal processes by studying current practices, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending efficient solutions. Collaborating with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting enterprise-level analysis responsibilities including planning and scoping interdependent activities and leading senior business stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of the business and business process, including building great partner relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Leading and supporting the efforts of other business analysts including coordination and oversight of the work of other business analysts. Providing strategic consultative leadership to drive solution design decisions, prioritization tradeoffs, and stakeholder alignment.
• Influencing feature-level vision and shapes deliverables through successful backlog partnership with Product/Technology.
• Serving as a functional escalation point and ensures timely resolution of issues requiring senior functional engagement.

• Possess Bachelor's in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience. Having Leave of Absence and Disability knowledge is advantageous in this role.
• Have experience producing high-quality documentation artifacts (process flows, use cases/user stories, traceability) and working with Agile methodologies. Demonstrate Knowledge in enterprise systems (Workday, Smartsheets, Jama, Jira). Have IIBA CBAP certification or equivalent.
• Demonstrate…