PeopleSoft Financials Accounting SME(transition from PeopleSoft to Workday. ),Remote

Overview

A client is seeking a finance professional to support financial reporting and reconciliation activities within accounting and finance operations. This role involves journal processing, general ledger accounting, cash reconciliation, fund accounting analysis, and assisting with the transition from PeopleSoft to Workday financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform journal processing, review, and correction support.
• Assist with cash reconciliation, account balancing, transaction research, and resolving discrepancies.
• Support fund accounting activities including analysis of funds, chartfields, accounts, departments, projects, grants, transactions, and balances.
• Research and resolve accounting issues related to PeopleSoft legacy data, Workday transition outputs, and business-owned reconciliation files.
• Collaborate with finance, grants, accounting, and ERP project teams to support PeopleSoft-to-Workday transition and stabilization.
• Validate financial data, reporting outputs, journal activity, fund balances, and reconciliation results.
• Document issues, findings, recommended corrections, and status updates clearly for business and project stakeholders.
• Provide hands-on accounting support to business users during transition activities.

Requirements

• Strong accounting background with hands-on experience in financial reporting, reconciliations, journal processing, and general ledger operations.
• Experience with cash reconciliation, account analysis, balance validation, and financial discrepancy resolution.
• Knowledge of fund accounting, preferably in higher education, government, public sector, nonprofit, or grants accounting environments.
• Ability to work directly with accounting and finance users to understand issues, research transactions, and recommend corrective actions.
• Experience working in ERP-based accounting environments; PeopleSoft Financials experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, reconciliation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, sensitive project environment with urgent business needs.
• Clear communication skills with finance, accounting, grants, and ERP project stakeholders.
• Higher education accounting experience.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Financials modules such as GL, Grants, Project Costing, Commitment Control, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, or related FSCM modules.
• Experience as a PeopleSoft Financials Functional Consultant, PeopleSoft Grants Consultant, Fund Accountant, Grants Accountant, or ERP Accounting Subject Matter Expert.
• Workday Financials experience or prior support of a PeopleSoft-to-Workday transition.
• Experience with sponsored programs, grants accounting, project costing, cost share, budget checking, drawdown, billing, or fund balance reconciliation.
• Prior ERP transition, data validation, financial cleanup, reconciliation, go-live, or stabilization support experience.
• Local to Tallahassee, FL if possible.

Deliverables

• Completed financial reconciliations with supporting documentation.
• Journal processing support, journal review, and documented correction recommendations.
• Cash reconciliation support and documented findings.
• Fund accounting analysis, transaction research, and discrepancy resolution.
• Validated financial reporting outputs, balances, journals, and reconciliation results.
• Clear documentation of open issues, corrections, recommended next steps, and stakeholder follow-up items.
• Coordination notes and status updates for finance, grants, accounting, and ERP transition stakeholders.

Location

• Preference for candidates local to Tallahassee, FL.