PeopleSoft Lead Functional Analyst - Payables, Hybrid

Job Title:

Peoplesoft Funct Analyst III

Location:

System Business Office

Department Name: IT&S Ent,

Business Info Sys

Req #:

Status:
Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $ - $ per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

The People Soft Lead Functional Analyst – Payables will act as the primary liaison between Information Systems and Payables business partners, ensuring that system functionality effectively supports the needs of all user groups. This role is responsible for researching, recommending, and influencing best practice solutions by leveraging deep expertise in People Soft Payables applications and business processes. The analyst will create and maintain functional requirement specifications, drive process improvements, and guide proposed technology solutions.

In addition, this position provides leadership and mentoring to team members through active knowledge sharing, and will play a key role in developing and executing application plans related to upgrades, patches, problem resolution, change requests, and system enhancements. The ideal candidate will combine strong functional knowledge with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams to deliver effective, efficient, and sustainable solutions.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent or more years work experience
• 7-10+ years experience with progressive responsibility implementing, upgrading, maintaining, and supporting People Soft applications

Preferred:

• Experience in the People Soft Payables module preferred but any ERP Payables system experience will be a plus
• Familiarity with expense and/or cash management/treasury is a plus

Scheduling Requirements:

• Full-Time
• Day
• Monday - Friday
• Hybrid

Essential Functions:

• Configure and maintain People Soft payables modules to meet business needs, ensuring alignment with business practices
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement by better leveraging delivered People Soft payables functionality; conduct conference room pilots and other proof of concept activities to obtain buy-in for recommended configurations
• Collaborate with developers on system customizations, reports, and integrations
• Meet frequently with business stakeholders to continually review key objectives, discuss project pipeline, and build consensus around prioritization of work requests; attend project status meetings to review progress and present issues that may affect delivery schedules; help manage expectations, timelines, and deliverables
• Serve as subject matter expert for People Soft payables functionality
• Ensure that all requests follow the change management process and have a clearly articulated business case i,e, problem definition, viable options, cost/benefit/risk analysis, etc,
• Facilitate sessions to gather business requirements, identify current business process challenges, and perform fit/gap assessment with the delivered applications
• Compile process flows, functional design specifications, test plans, and training materials
• Supports areas of People Soft system design, implementation and functionality
• Understands functionality of payables modules in addition to the interconnectedness of modules
• Supports peers, business and IT partners in designing and setting maintainable system functionality
• Troubleshoots and solves People Soft system configuration challenges using root cause analysis and system configuration changes
• Understands and maintains knowledge of the system design and build to aid in development of new technologies and solutions,
• Creates robust Business and Functional documentation to support Technical design, system/user testing and implementations,
• Works well with peers, business partners and IT
• Maintains visibility to sustainable People Soft design and implementations through training and research and is able to use experience with interpreting and adapting them to current system designs
• Appreciates the importance…