PeopleSoft Finance Functional Lead Consultant

Overview

This role is for a PeopleSoft Finance Functional Lead Consultant with strong expertise in PeopleSoft Accounts Payable (AP), PeopleSoft Financials, and Time and Labor. Responsibilities include triaging and resolving user issues, managing tickets and service requests, and implementing required configuration changes. The position requires close collaboration with customer process consultants and subject matter experts (SMEs), performing root-cause analysis when necessary, and driving continuous process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Address user issues and resolve system-related problems
• Manage tickets and service requests
• Implement required configuration changes
• Collaborate with customer process consultants and SMEs to support successful delivery of enhancements
• Perform root-cause analysis for complex issues and identify corrective actions
• Drive continuous process improvements
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams
• Analyze accounting entries and troubleshoot finance integration issues, including:
  • journal generation
  • chart fields
  • distribution lines
  • combo edits
  • budget checking
  • finance integration issues
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities
• Assist with financial reconciliations, reporting, audit support, and data validation
• Recommend solutions to complex issues
• Gather business requirements, propose process improvements, manage stakeholders, and prepare functional design and documentation
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems, including monitoring jobs, interfaces, and integrations, and ensuring timely response to incidents and outages (per support needs)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• Location for this position is anywhere in the US. This position may require travel to client/project location
• At least 7 years of Information Technology experience
• In order to comply with legal requirements, this role is limited to “U.S. persons” as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.15.
• U.S. persons include U.S. citizens, U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents, and certain refugees and asylees.
• Demonstrated experience in AP Banking, PeopleSoft Finance, Time and Labor functional experience
• Experience in Accounts Payable
• Experience in General Ledger
• Experience in Banking / Cash Management
• Experience in Purchasing / Procurement integration
• Ability to analyze accounting entries, journal generation, chart fields, distribution lines, combo edits, budget checking, and finance integration issues
• Experience supporting month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities
• Ability to assist with financial reconciliations, reporting, audit support, and data validation
• Experience in issue resolution, root cause identification and analysis
• Must be able to recommend solutions to complex issues
• Good working knowledge of People tools, SQL and other tools
• Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
• Experience with Ticketing systems like ServiceNow

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and support processes
• Experience in Commitment Control, if applicable
• Experience in Billing / Receivables, if applicable
• Experience in Project Costing, if applicable
• Strong knowledge of business processes across finance domains
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience and desire to work closely with customers
• Experience in collaborative, cross-functional team environments

Compensation & Benefits

Estimated annual compensation range

• In CA / CO / D.C. / IL / MA / MD / MN / NJ / NY / VT / VA / WA: $94,000 to $131,600
• In Washington, DC: $85,700 to $124,600

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time employee you are also eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Additional Information

• The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time.
• Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face.
• Travel may be required as per the job requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The employer provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.