HRMS Business Analyst

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Job Title HRMS Business Analyst (Payroll) - Hybrid

The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) is the largest school board in western Canada with over 144,000 students and 16,000 employees. Our mission: Each student, in keeping with their individual abilities and gifts, will complete high school with a foundation of learning necessary to thrive in life, work and continued learning. We pride ourselves in the values we hold. Students come first. Learning is our central purpose. Public education serves the common good. The CBE encourages an inclusive and equitable workplace, which supports our diverse student and employee community. We encourage all applicants to join our dynamic, diverse, and collaborative culture and welcome applications from all qualified individuals.

When you apply to the CBE, you can feel good about serving our future leaders and contributing to student success.

Competition Info

Competition Close Date:Sunday, September 13, 2026 @ 11:59 pm

Calendar: This is a year-round position and is eligible to participate in the organization's Earned Days Off (EDO) program, providing additional scheduled time off from June to August in accordance with program guidelines.”

Salary: SA Grade H, $44.33- $54.83 per Hour

The purpose of this position is to provide business analytical services and support to the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) in a variety of technical and non-technical solutions. This position works with CBE’s current Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS) to identify technology capabilities to enhance HR service delivery to CBE clients.

Accountability

This position is accountable to:

• Act as the primary contact for clients, SME’s, and technical support resources to manage day to day Enterprise HRMS requirements and to provide client groups with HR data from HRMS to assist with informed decision making.
• Participates in the design, testing, implementation and support of applications. Possesses a broad and in depth knowledge of the application and how it relates to corporate business processes and practices.
• Assist in trouble shooting to achieve resolution of all system and processing failures.
• Work jointly with end-users to identify system and process inefficiencies and document requirements and specifications.
• Assist users to effectively implement the technical solution through appropriate training, procedures and consultation.
• Maintain and develop a well performing HRMS system by leveraging industry best practices for development, change control, version control, migrations, testing, standards, and procedures.
• Elicit and document business requirements for system or process enhancements.
• Create system testing scenarios and execute test cases to validate results against the requirements; including regression testing. Use automated testing tools to develop and execute regression testing where applicable.
• Test and troubleshoot the processes and functionality of HR technologies and solutions.
• Assist internal clients to leverage technology and modify existing processes in support of business needs.
• Document technology and business process changes.
• Participate in the implementation of CBE HR strategies as required.
• Develop core competency with multiple PeopleSoft modules and exercise a thorough knowledge of CBE business processes.
• Coordinate and execute system processes to support the operation of the interdependent modules of Enterprise HRMS, which includes payroll, time & labour, benefit administration and multiple inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Define query and report requirements to extract information for decision makers from the HRMS.

Major Responsibilities

• Maintain expertise in the core functionality of the Enterprise HRMS technology, and the HR application architecture.
• Work jointly with end-users to identify system and process inefficiencies.
• Support the development of functional business requirements by assisting CBE clients to clearly define requirements, rules, and processes and document functional specifications, and assist Technical Business Analysts and Developers with design and implementation.
• Provide first level application support in PeopleSoft, for end users and resolve system and/or user errors.
• Ensure technology and process designs support business process owner requirements. Conduct requirements gathering and fit gap analysis to leverage application capabilities with business requirements.
• Scope customization requirements and complete cost benefit analysis for business owner consideration in decision making.
• Work with the technical Business Analyst on requests for data loads and PeopleSoft customization requirements.