Cypress HCM

Compensation

Full Description

Duties We are seeking a Solution Designer with strong experience in Finance systems, specifically within FP&A or Workforce Planning domains, to join our team. This role plays a critical part across the full project lifecycle, partnering with business stakeholders, digital teams, and end users to build experiences that are intuitive, scalable, and aligned to evolving business needs. The ideal candidate is curious, detail?oriented, creative, and driven by a desire to deeply understand user needs and bring compelling solutions to life. They will balance the ability to simplify complex finance processes with the discipline required to deliver consistently accurate, high?quality requirements and functional solutions. Key Responsibilities End?to?End Project Lifecycle Support • Lead and facilitate requirements gathering sessions with business partners and subject?matter experts. • Translate business needs into clear, detailed functional user stories, process flows, and mock?ups. • Facilitate mid?development demos, providing continual feedback and validating solution alignment. • Create UAT testing scripts, coordinate tester activities, and guide teams through UAT cycles. • Support deployment, including end?user enablement, training, and post?go?live hypercare. • Assist with enhancements, defect triage, and functional improvements throughout maintenance cycles. Requirements & Functional Design Develop comprehensive requirements documentation, including functional and process specifications. • Translate complex finance processes into simplified, actionable system behaviors and workflows. • Incorporate compliance requirements, detailed accounting rules, calculations, and system interactions. User & Customer Experience • Humanize the customer experience while enabling future scalability and operational efficiency. • Build, maintain, and iterate personas and usage scenarios to guide solution design. • Drive usability, clarity, and consistency across product experiences. • Gather and analyze user feedback to continuously improve product functionality and user experience. Testing, Deployment & Quality Assurance • Participate actively in planning and execution of UAT, ensuring solutions deliver expected business value. • Partner with technical teams to validate solution quality and ensure alignment to original requirements. • Perform functional QA, identify issues early, and support smooth, timely releases. Business Alignment & Governance • Ensure ongoing alignment with business goals, compliance needs, and finance operational requirements. • Bring clarity to complex business challenges, consistently simplifying where possible. • Communicate requirements effectively to reduce rework, improve collaboration, and accelerate delivery. Skills Finance & Systems Expertise • 9+ Years Experience and deep understanding of Finance, including FP&A, Workforce Planning, or related financial processes. • Experience working with enterprise finance systems and navigating complex system interactions. • Strong understanding of technical opportunities, system constraints, and cross?functional dependencies. Functional & Technical Skills • Proven ability to write high?quality user stories for complex, cross?functional systems. • Skilled in creating process flows, low?fidelity and/or mid?fidelity mock?ups, and requirements documentation. • Strong analytical skills, capable of breaking down ambiguous or complex problems into structured solutions. Communication & Collaboration • Excellent communication, facilitation, and technical writing capabilities. • Demonstrated success in conveying requirements to digital and technical teams with minimal iterations. • Ability to thoughtfully guide cross?functional teams and influence decisions through clarity and insight. Mindset & Behavioral Traits • Curious and eager to understand user needs and business context. • Creative thinker who brings new ideas and perspectives. • Detail?oriented, disciplined, and thorough in documentation and review. • Enjoys working directly with customers and stakeholders. • Passionate about technology and its potential to improve the way people work. Based on the job description, what are the must have non-negotiable items that a candidate must have to be successful in this role? • Experience working with enterprise finance systems and navigating complex system interactions. • Strong understanding of technical opportunities, system constraints, and cross?functional dependencies. • Proven ability to write high?quality user stories for complex, cross?functional systems. • Skilled in creating process flows, low?fidelity and/or mid?fidelity mock?ups, and requirements documentation. • Strong analytical skills, capable of breaking down ambiguous or complex problems into structured solutions. What backgrounds/skills can we be more flexible with that can be learned on the job? • Can be flexible with experience levels Does this position require to sit onsite or travel? Remote Does this person have to work in a specific time zone? (e.g. - If a person on the East Coast can work PST, is that ok?) PST Time Zone but can be in a different location if they will work PST hours Does this position have the opportunity to extend beyond the initial contract or convert to FTE? Most likely No Is there a specific laptop that needs to be used for this role (i.e. - Mac or Windows)? No Pay Rate Range • $80-89.28/hr.