Job Details

About Us:

* Act as a PeopleSoft Financial (FIN) Management and Product Specialist.

* Work with Business and Managed Services vendors to support day-to-day PeopleSoft-based Financial Operations and Projects.

* Use business process modeling and/or vendor solution evaluations to analyze potential for streamlining or reengineering business processes via implementation of information technology solutions.

* Help manage the State's relationship with its ERP Managed Services Providers (MSP) to ensure that SLA's and other performance metrics are met.

* Drive collaboration with key Business, internal Infrastructure, MSP, Security, and other critical stakeholder organizations to ensure that the ERP FIN application operates efficiently in support of business operations calendars.

* Gather and analyze information from stakeholders, business owners, customers and management.

* Lead identification, triage, troubleshooting and reporting of production issues and problems in the ERP FIN application.

* Work to understand customer issues and communicate these issues to ERP FIN application support personnel/organizations.

* Identify risks and recommend changes related to processes, projects and procedures.

* Consult with the Business and MSP on critical aspects of break/fix approaches and planned enhancements.

* Perform as liaison between various stakeholders, managing stakeholder expectations and ensuring successful communications between project team members.

* Develop project plan with project manager or recommend approaches through defining tasks, leading meetings and other tasks to gather and coordinate activities for requirements gathering.

* Develop and/or review business requirements documents for requested enhancements to ensure that specifications are clear and include information needed by MSP developers to fulfill enhancement requests.

* Make recommendations for gains in efficiency or costs through implementation of information technology solutions.

* Validate MSP vendor estimates for completing enhancements and perform code reviews of MSP-delivered enhancements.

* Perform validation of solutions by analyzing the end product and specification requirements.

* Help drive MSP performance improvements and proactively identify and implement service improvements in operational delivery processes.

* Work with Business owners and users on projects by supporting testing efforts, monitoring project progress, providing additional project management support, and attending information exchange and touchpoint meetings with project teams.

* Monitor SFTP server activity for interfaces to determine what interfaces are being created and/or retrieved.

* Send communications to FIN SFTP account owners informing them of scheduled system outages or maintenance that affects OAKS.

Minimum Qualifications:

60 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: leading analysts and analyzing business operations to determine areas to implement solutions through the use of information technology and reducing overall costs and/or providing efficiencies.

* Or completion of associate core program in computer science, information systems, or business administration; 42 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: leading analysts and analyzing business operations to determine areas to implement solutions through the use of information technology and reducing overall costs and/or providing efficiencies.

* Or completion of undergraduate core program in computer science, information systems, or business administration; 36 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: leading analysts and analyzing business operations to determine areas to implement solutions through the use of information technology and reducing overall costs and/or providing efficiencies.

* Or equivalent of minimum class qualifications for employment noted above.

Job Skills: Information Technology, Accounting and Finance, Computer Literacy, Interpreting Financial Statements, Active Learning, Verbal Communication, Written Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of:

* PeopleSoft ERP Operations Management

* Accounts Payable and Receivable

* Asset Management

* Billing

* General Ledger

* Budget Development

* Strategic Sourcing

* Supply Chain

* Travel and Expense

* Commitment Control

* Procurement

* Self Service

* Computer Science

Skill in:

* PeopleSoft Financial Management 9

* MS Office 365 suite (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, etc.)

* Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or other specific SQL databases

* Application management/outsourcing experience (preferably Onshore)

Ability to:

* Communicate verbally and have written communication skills in large/complex organizations

* Utilize the Tier-One System Integrator firm providing PeopleSoft/Oracle professional services*

* Problem solve at all levels of an organization