Senior Business Systems Administrator

The Senior Business Systems Administrator serves as the technical subject‑matter expert for Costpoint and related financial systems, ensuring secure, stable, and optimized performance across all finance applications and integrations. This role leads complex system configuration, integration management, advanced troubleshooting, and technical design efforts. It also retains business-analysis responsibilities to ensure system enhancements meet operational needs. The senior administrator partners with Finance, Accounting, IT, and leadership to deliver robust, scalable financial system solutions and support continuous improvement.

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The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Our first consideration will be to have this employee live in the state of Wisconsin to take advantage of Hybrid work and collaboration. Employees within 45 miles of WPS Headquarters (1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI, 53713) will be expected to be able to be able to work Hybrid 2 days a week on a regular basis.

• As a secondary consideration, we do offer remote work in the following approved states:
  Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin

• Serve as lead system administrator and technical owner of Costpoint, Time & Expense, Cognos, and related finance technology tools, providing expert configuration, advanced troubleshooting, and system stability oversight.
• Lead technical and functional analysis efforts, translate business needs into functional and configuration requirements, and design scalable technical solutions.
• Manage integrations and data flows, including API-based connections, middleware, ETL jobs, error handling processes, and cross-system data reconciliation.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve advanced system issues, including data structure anomalies, configuration defects, integration failures, and cross‑module impacts.
• Develop and validate complex reports, data models, and analytics, ensuring accuracy and consistency across operational and leadership reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation, identify opportunities to standardize workflows, optimize configurations, reduce manual effort, and enhance system reliability.
• Mentor junior administrators, provide technical guidance, review configuration work, raise standards for documentation, testing, and system design.
• Maintain comprehensive system documentation supporting audit readiness, governance, and sustainable system knowledge.
• Support Agile/Scrum ceremonies, ensuring technical stories are well‑defined, dependencies understood, and delivery successful.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five or more years supporting financial systems or ERP platforms in roles involving system administration, configuration, troubleshooting, and business-analysis activities.
• Advanced expertise in Costpoint system administration, including module configuration, data structures, workflow behavior, security management, and cross‑module dependencies.
• Strong skills in business and systems analysis, including requirements gathering, gap analysis, process mapping, solution design, and translating financial operational needs into technical configurations and enhancements.
• Proven ability to design and implement system-based solutions supporting financial processes such as budgeting, forecasting, audit readiness, compliance, financial…