Flowers Bakeries Hiring for Senior Process & Solutions People Apps Analyst at Thomasville, GA  Full Time

Responsible for creating and supporting SuccessFactors and related solutions for Flowers Food’s talent management and communications processes including the design and configuration of SuccessFactors modules to effectively meet documented business requirements. This role will also create functional documentation for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.

The Senior Process & Solutions Analyst- People Applications is an expert in talent management processes and execution of design, build, test, and change activities.

* The Senior Process & Solutions Analyst- People Applications will oversee activities that optimize value, cost and risk of various applications:
* Design, configure, test and implement SuccessFactors and other related solutions.
* Create design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.
* Execute activities in partnership with the Business Relationship Management Human Resources Team, various other Flowers’ IT teams as well as application service providers.
* Mentor colleagues.
* Continually assess the impact of emerging technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for IT management.
* Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing talent management and communications applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance and reference architectures.
* Develop productive relationships with business across the organization to influence how the People Applications team can enable new sources of value.
* Execute methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall) and practices for the application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement.
* Ensure that applications processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation.
* Provide support in conjunction with various IT groups to ensure applications perform to Flowers’ standards. Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
* Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.
* Perform other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.

* Experience leading IT teams including the creation of configuration standards, leading practices, and delivery execution, including:
* 8+ years of progressive experience in talent application design, development, quality assurance and implementation processes.
* 1 year of demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
* Experience integrating SuccessFactors and other solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.
* In-depth knowledge and experience in the following:
* SuccessFactors architecture and emerging SAP capabilities.
* Capabilities in a majority of the following SuccessFactors areas: Learning & Development, Performance & Goals, Compensation, and Recruiting.
* Strong working knowledge of all SuccessFactors modules.
* IT applications, operations, service and support organizations.
* Expert knowledge of data processing systems, concepts, and methodologies.
* Demonstrated aptitude for learning new technologies.
* Proficiency in process formulation and improvement.
* Development and implementation of processes and policies

* An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, finance, business management or a related field. MIS, CIS or Human Resource Management degree is preferred. SHRM or SPHR certification is a plus but not required.