CAPPS Financials Tower Analyst

Job Title: CAPPS Financials Tower Analyst
Location:
Austin, TX (Remote)
Duration: 12+ Months

Responsibilities

• Provide functional leadership and production support for the CAPPS Financials environment.
• Support People Soft FSCM 9.2 modules including:
  • General Ledger
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable/Billing
  • Purchasing
  • Asset Management
  • Project Costing
  • Inventory
  • Grants
  • Contracts
  • Travel & Expense
  • Commitment Control
• Perform system configuration, enhancements, troubleshooting, and defect resolution.
• Analyze business requirements and prepare Functional Design Documents (FDDs).
• Configure People Soft delivered functionality including:
  • Page and Field Configurator
  • Event Mapping
  • Drop Zones
  • Page Composer
• Monitor and support CAPPS batch processing and Run My Jobs (RMJ).
• Develop and maintain SQL queries, SQR reports, BI Publisher reports, and SAP Business Objects reporting.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and production deployments.
• Support Disaster Recovery testing, upgrade testing, and People Soft Update Manager (PUM) activities.
• Provide Tier-2 production support and participate in Major Incident Management (P1/P2 incidents).
• Collaborate with business users, state agencies, managed service vendors, and technical teams.
• Ensure compliance with State of Texas security standards, NIST guidelines, ITIL practices, and WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements.
• Participate in fiscal year-end processing, audits, executive presentations, and CAPPS steering committee meetings.

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of State of Texas applicable policies.
• Extensive technical skillsets needed with App Designer, Integration Broker, assorted SQR/SQL, BI Publisher, SAP Business Objects, etc. to support functional responsibilities.
• Extensive knowledge and experience performing system configuration changes.
• Extensive knowledge supporting and providing oversight with batch jobs, i.e., Run My Jobs (RMJ)
• Extensive knowledge of security best practices, NIST standards, and multi-tenancy applicability for a statewide ERP instance.
• Extensive Texas public sector experience, directly working for or supporting a large network (30 or more) of Texas state government agencies
• Extensive experience creating and managing a strategic roadmap by combining strong planning skills, functional insight, and effective cross-functional communication
• Extensive familiarity with support tools such as PUM, Fluid and Elastic Search
• Experience performing functional project management activities in support of CPA's CAPPS program
• Experience providing Tier 2 Service Desk Support for a large network (30 or more) of agencies with a Managed Services vendor providing Tier 3.
• Experience supporting Priority 1 and Priority 2 incidents in coordination with the Major Incident Management (MIM) process.
• Experience participating in Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Experience preparing and presenting executive-level presentations.
• Experience gathering and presenting applicable data in support of a variety of audits and open records requests.
• Experience in interpreting contractual language and integrating it into daily workflows, while consistently holding vendors accountable to contractual requirements
• Extensive experience supporting the CAPPS Financials tower in People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience developing requirements, analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and implementing components of two or more of CPA's statewide systems: CAPPS, TINS, SPA, and USAS
• Experience planning and coordinating the Fiscal Year Process at a statewide level
• Experience working with the CAPPS Financials General Ledger module
• Experience preparing WCAG 2.1-compliant materials for distribution.
• Knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles and practices for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus on aligning IT services with the needs of the business
• Experience working with the Purchasing core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the General Ledger core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the Accounts Payable core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the Accounts Receivable/Billing non-core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the Inventory non-core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the Project Costing non-core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the Strategic Sourcing non-core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2
• Experience working with the Travel & Expense non-core module of People Soft FSCM version 9.2