Remote Entry Level Biomedical Scientist Jobs in California

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Why work here?
"World-class Human Resources" are more than just pretty words here, it is our singular goal. A goal we are making remarkable progress on, and one we hope to achieve with your help.
Beyond outstanding benefits, competitive salaries and health and dental insurance we offer tuition reimbursement and learning programs so you can achieve additional certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career. At Cedars-Sinai, you'll work among our state-of-the-art biomedical research facilities with access to the best physicians and scientists in the Los Angeles area.
What will you be doing:
The Senior HRIS Analyst partners with HR management, HR functional areas SME's (subject matter experts) and their customers to analyze work process design and flow, improve processes and demonstrate the return on technological capabilities. Builds project plans, ensures alignment to project schedules, maintains a systems orientation and can work effectively with peers to set technology priorities and conduct long-term planning. This position also serves as a technical point-of-contact for assigned functional area and assists domain experts with ensuring data integrity, testing of system changes, report writing and analyzing data flows for process improvement opportunities. Analyst also partners with Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) for HR Management System (HRMS) upgrades/quarterly release, reviewing new release notes with future system changes, patches, testing and other technical projects as assigned. Participates in special projects and stretch assignment as appropriate.

• Manages projects/process improvements, including applying change management experience to facilitate movement to new levels of quality. Project responsibilities are to support HR and business objectives, that involve both service delivery and technology projects, in partnership with appropriate business areas, such as EIS, Benefits, Payroll, and Talent Management (TMOD) in planning, task management, risk management, issues tracking & resolution, quality management, customer focused, communications plan & stakeholder updates. Ensures quality delivery of project on time and within budget.
• Acts as work-stream lead or systems lead in projects, feature releases and issue resolution, working with business users, EIS, vendors and other support teams to define scope, prioritize, plan and implement.
• Manages projects focused on improvements to Cedars-Sinai processes and data in HR Management System. This includes requirement specification, consultancy and implementation of change to existing and new applications. Identifies and understands issues, problems and opportunities and compare data from different sources to draw conclusions. Apply effective approaches for choosing a course of action or develops appropriate solutions, takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
• Uses interpersonal skills when working with various customers and peers to accomplish project goals. Recommends process/customer service improvements, innovative solutions, policy changes and/or major variations from established policy, which must be approved by appropriate leadership prior to implementation.
• Understands and uses qualitative/quantitative measurement and data collection design principles. Participates in evaluation process of any new systems, make recommendations, identify any potential gap analysis from current to future state.
• Evaluates existing HR Management System functionalities by module and make recommendations for any enhancements to align with the business.
• Performs system maintenance, including assisting in the review, testing and implementation of HRMS system upgrades or patches. Collaborates with functional and technical staff to coordinate application upgrades or fixes. Maintains HRMS system tables. Documents process flows and results.
• Participation in life cycle systems implementation or module. Provide direction, mentoring and guidance to other team members for areas of HRMS (Lawson/Oracle) expertise. Manages the overall HRMS Security and performs audits to ensure compliance
• Provides production support for HRMS, such as functional/technical support to end users by troubleshooting issues, research and resolve using case management system (ServiceNow) and internal team mailbox. Performs scheduled activities, recommends solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements.
• Oversees the HRMS (Lawson/Oracle) user security administration provisioning process, including but not limited to setup, recommendations, audits, administrative control over HR Shared Drive setup, and maintenance. Develops end user support mechanisms on as required basis which may include change management procedures, user guides/references and user workshops.
• Manages the day-to-day operations of the HRIS team in support of HRMS (Lawson/Oracle) system maintenance, user support and troubleshooting. Provides responsive and timely customer service as well as excellent teamwork and collaboration across HRIS, EIS, HR and Payroll teams.
• Assist in development of standard reports for ongoing customer needs. Help maintain data integrity in systems by running audits and analyzing data.
• Facilitates and leads the design and development of user procedures, guidelines and documentation to support system and process changes. Trains clients and new system users on new processes/functionality. Supports change management efforts.
• Maintains awareness of current trends in HRMS with a focus on product and service development, delivery and support, and applying key technologies. Examines trends in information systems training, materials and techniques. Through classes, reading, CBTs or other mechanisms; continuously increases both HR knowledge and HRIS application/tools knowledge. Participates in user group meetings/conferences.

*Please note this is a 3-year fixed term position with benefits*
*Approved Remote States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Texas*
Qualifications
Experience Requirements:
Six (6) plus years of experience in human resource, payroll, HR and Payroll Systems Management and time management business process.
Experience in relational databases, technology trends and tools in support of HR/Payroll business process management.
Extensive knowledge and proficient with various components and application modules of HRMS Human Resource/Payroll Management System including its Client/Server and web components.
Proficient in report writing using tools such as Crystal, Business Objects, BI, OBIEE, Web Intelligence, SQL, Tableau, Microsoft Add-Ins (excel), general Microsoft applications (i.e., Access, Excel, VB) etc.
Time tracking system management, UKG experience highly preferred.
Educational/Certification Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Administration, Human Resources, Information Technology, or related field.
Master's degree preferred.
PMP (Project Management Professional) or HRIP (Human Resource Information Technology) or SHRM (SHRM-CP) preferred.
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