ABOUT THE COMPANY

Acumen is one of the nation's leading fiscal agents offering a portfolio of innovative financial management services backed by superior customer service. Our passion is to help people lead independent lives through exceptional participant-directed programs. Acumen is a great place to work. Our employees make a positive difference in our client's lives by what they do. Among many benefits to working here, we offer medical, dental, and vision coverage, generous paid time off, and incentive bonuses to those who qualify.

ROLE AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) – UKG is the functional owner of UKG system behavior for timekeeping and payroll. This role is accountable for translating HR/Payroll policies, compliance requirements, and operational reality into accurate, auditable, and scalable configuration within UKG. The UKG BSA leads functional design, configuration governance, and UAT acceptance to protect payroll accuracy and reduce long-term vendor dependency.

Platform Ownership & Configuration

• 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

Payroll Accuracy & Risk Control

• 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

Accrual & Policy Translation

• 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

Integrations & Data Integrity

• 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

UAT Leadership & Release Management

• 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

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• 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.

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

EQUIPMENT NORMALLY USED

• Telephone and headset, computer, multiple screens, copier, scanning system, printer, postage machine, calculator, and fax machines
• May use other office equipment as needed

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, with or without accommodation.

• The employee must be able to sit for extended periods of time entering data into multiple systems
• The employee is regularly required to use their fingers, hands, arms, and eyes to input data and fold and/or cut paper
• The employee may be required to answer the phone as well as respond to team members and internal customers
• The employee is required to operate and maintain a variety of office equipment including a computer, copy machines, scanning and reading equipment and a calculator requiring repetitive motion of the fingers, hands, arms, and eyes
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and talk for an hour or more
• Vision ability is required to do the job, including close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus
• Ability to work under stressful conditions that may require handling multiple work assignments with specific deadlines
• Ground and or Air travel

Acumen, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We embrace diversity in all its form. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process or hiring process, please submit your request through one of the following methods listed below:

(a) Dedicated fax 866-268-8885
(b) Dedicated email hrdept@riseservicesinc.org DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY
(c) US mail - 4554 E Inverness Ave Mesa, AZ 85206- Attn Human Resources
(d) Dedicated phone 1-866-242-2714 Option 1 (Employment Opportunities) DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY