Esri is a company that provides geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping solutions.
The role is based at the company's campus in Redlands, CA.
Responsibilities
Partner with Finance, HR, and technical stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business, functional, non-functional, reporting, and security requirements.
Facilitate workshops to understand current-state processes, reporting needs, data warehouse usage, pain points, controls, and business objectives.
Translate business requirements into implementation-ready specifications, including source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, business logic, exception handling, and acceptance criteria.
Create and maintain project documentation, including process flows, data dictionaries, data models, requirements traceability matrices, report mockups, and decision logs.
Collaborate with data engineers and subject matter experts to define business rules, resolve requirements gaps, validate assumptions, and support development planning.
Design and coordinate validation activities for migrated data products, including tables, dimensions, facts, semantic models, and reports using reconciliation, testing, and defect tracking methodologies.
Establish and maintain data quality, validation, parity reporting, and operational monitoring solutions using Power BI or similar analytics tools.
Document and support governance, security, and compliance requirements, including data classifications, PII, compensation-related data, role-based access controls, row-level security, data masking, retention, lineage, and audit requirements.
Lead user acceptance testing (UAT) activities, including test planning, script development, readiness assessments, sign-off processes, and post-migration validation support.
Serve as the primary liaison between business and technical teams, communicating risks, managing requirement changes, and ensuring solutions align with Finance and HR business goals.
Requirements
5+ years of direct business analysis experience supporting data, analytics, business intelligence, or data warehouse initiatives for Human Resources, Finance, Accounting, Payroll, or similarly controlled business domains.
Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications, data mappings, acceptance criteria, test plans, and development-ready backlog items.
Intermediate to advanced querying and analysis skills using T-SQL, SQL Server tools, Excel, and similar data profiling or validation approaches.
Working knowledge of dimensional modeling concepts, semantic models, reporting layers, measures, KPIs, hierarchies, and data lineage.
Experience supporting data validation, reconciliation, defect triage, UAT, stakeholder sign-off, and production readiness for business-critical reporting or data products.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to adapt messaging for SMEs, engineers, product owners, managers, and executive stakeholders.
Strong facilitation, organization, prioritization, and follow-through skills in an environment with multiple stakeholders, evolving requirements, and sensitive data constraints.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment when working with restricted HR, compensation, payroll, financial, or accounting data.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available for this posting.
Incorporate appropriate security and data privacy safeguards into work activities, communications and deliverables to protect sensitive, confidential and regulated information.
Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, mathematics, finance, accounting, human resources, data analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Conditions
This is an onsite position based in Redlands, CA.
Total rewards include industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.