Fincantieri Marine Group currently has an opportunity for a Business Advisor, HRIS at the Green Bay, Wisconsin location.
The HRIS Business Advisor acts as a liaison between users across the FMG organizations and the IT department, championing continuous improvement while enhancing the solution platform to meet the business's needs and goals. This role supports the business by analyzing needs, solidifying requirements, troubleshooting issues, training focal point users, managing projects, and defining solutions. You will play a crucial role in optimizing HR systems to support the organization's strategic objectives. As a member of the IT Applications Team, you will provide functional and technical support to Business Users to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction. Team members are expected to become the experts for their applications and have strong knowledge of business processes supported by the team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain relationships with users and facility/functional area leadership to understand business conditions, operational challenges, and potential opportunities.
- Serve as a business advisor for the implementation and support of HR systems throughout the concept, design, realization, and support project stages.
- Oversee HRIS such as ADP, SAP HRM, PA (HR Personnel Administration), OM (Organizational Management), TM (Talent Management), PD (Personnel Development), and SAP SuccessFactors.
- Collaborate with functional area leadership in tactical and business planning processes, operational planning/review processes, and communication processes to understand business requirements.
- Evaluate business processes and needs with key stakeholders to increase efficiency, productivity, and functionality, translating these requirements into specifications for developers.
- Lead the development of solutions that meet business needs, optimizing configuration, customization, and process change considerations.
- Support peripheral systems and interfaces related to HR business processes.
- Assist developers in unit testing deliverables and facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) with business partners to ensure quality and functionality.
- Define and manage project elements, including scope, schedule, cost, and deliverables, in collaboration with business stakeholders.
- Interface and communicate with program/project teams, management, and stakeholders regularly to foster a culture of inclusion and transparency.
- Act as a liaison to HR Information Systems for the implementation and testing of any improvements or new developments. · Training and Documentation: Create, review, and deliver end-user documentation (user guides, process flow charts, training materials) and training sessions.
- Abide by and enforce all organizational policies and procedures. ·
- Work well within a small, collaborative team environment, encouraging participation in all facets of solution design and delivery.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
Experience:
- Proven experience as an SAP HR Consultant or similar role, with a focus on implementing SAP HR modules (PA, OM, TM, Payroll).
- 10+ years of relevant experience (combined business and technical).
- 5+ years of SAP experience (in areas of Payroll, Benefits, and HR preferred).
- Hands-on experience with SAP configuration and customization.
- Experience with SAP SuccessFactors or other cloud-based HR solutions.
- Experience in full-cycle SAP implementation projects.
- Knowledge of ABAP programming language for SAP customization.
- Strong understanding of HR business processes and best practices, as well as the statutory and regulatory mandates for HR across FMG's business units, including commercial and military customers.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to document functional and technical specifications.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact professionally with diverse stakeholders and manage multiple priorities and tasks simultaneously.
- Familiarity with Project Management Methodology and the ability to manage IT project and program risks, issues, and scope changes using defined program governance processes and tools.
- Certification in SAP HR modules is a plus.
Competencies
Fincantieri utilizes basic universal competencies for all employees that are consistent with our strategy, culture and values. Our competencies are intended to provide basic behavioral expectations for all roles and include the following:
- Open Mindset: Identify and analyze potential problems to implement effective solutions, adopting alternative perspectives and methods to improve processes, activities and tasks, embrace change and proactively seek development opportunities to acquire new skills.
- Strategic Leadership: Lead toward shared and common goals while promoting a culture of trust, cohesion, follow through, and support, engaging with others and leveraging their peculiarities to successfully create value for the entire organization and promote development.
- Accomplishment: Own projects and activities to achieve or exceed objectives, focus on priorities, time and budget constraints, resources and quality, embrace internal and external customer needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
- Social Connection: Work interdependent and enhance collaboration between different teams, actively listen, communicate and share knowledge, embrace diversity and take value from all differences while promoting a culture of acceptance and inclusiveness.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and occasionally stand or walk; use hands to handle materials or equipment; reach with hands and arms; stoop and kneel; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee's workspace is in a clean and comfortable climate-controlled setting with little to no exposure to the moving equipment, elements, extreme conditions, or risk of injury. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. When entering the shipyard, areas of the work environment may not be climate-controlled and there is exposure to moving equipment, etc.
Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG) is the United States subsidiary of Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri, one of the world's largest shipbuilders, employing more than 19,000 shipbuilding professionals in 20 shipyards on four continents. Fincantieri has a rich history dating back more than 230 years and a track-record of delivering more than 7,000 ships. Fincantieri Marine Group is comprised of three Great Lakes Shipyards: Fincantieri Marinette Marine, builder of Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ships for the United States Navy; Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, specialists in construction, repair and conversion of United States Coast Guard (USCG) and commercial vessels; and Fincantieri ACE Marine, an aluminum construction facility and builder of Response Boat-Medium for the USCG, as well as specializing in the design and construction of high speed coastal intercept and patrol vessels.
Posting Disclaimer
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the work environment, knowledge, skill, ability, and physical demands that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position and should not be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities of the particular position. Other duties may apply. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EEO Statement
Fincantieri Marine Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and promotes a Drug Free Work Environment. Minorities, Women, Veterans and Disabled are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
