Peoplesoft Financial Management Consultant - 100% Onsite & In person at Columbus, Ohio

Job Description:

Act as a PeopleSoft Financial (FIN) Management and Product Specialist.

• Work with Business and Managed Services vendors to support day-to-day PeopleSoft-based Financial Operations and Projects.
• Use business process modelling and/or vendor solution evaluations to analyze potential for streamlining or reengineering business processes via implementation of information technology solutions.
• Help manage the State s relationship with its ERP Managed Services Providers (MSP) to ensure that SLA s and other performance metrics are met.
• Drive collaboration with key Business, internal Infrastructure, MSP, Security, and other critical stakeholder organizations to ensure that the ERP FIN application operates efficiently in support of business operations calendars.
• Gather and analyze information from stakeholders, business owners, customers and management.
• Lead identification, triage, troubleshooting and reporting of production issues and problems in the ERP FIN application.
• Work to understand customer issues and communicate these issues to ERP FIN application support personnel/organizations.
• Identify risks and recommend changes related to processes, projects and procedures.
• Consult with the Business and MSP on critical aspects of break/fix approaches and planned enhancements.
• Perform as liaison between various stakeholders, managing stakeholder expectations and ensuring successful communications between project team members.
• Develop project plan with project manager or recommend approaches through defining tasks, leading meetings and other tasks to gather and coordinate activities for requirements gathering.
• Develop and/or review business requirements documents for requested enhancements to ensure that specifications are clear and include information needed by MSP developers to fulfill enhancement requests.
• Make recommendations for gains in efficiency or costs through implementation of information technology solutions.
• Validate MSP vendor estimates for completing enhancements and perform code reviews of MSP-delivered enhancements.
• Perform validation of solutions by analyzing the end product and specification requirements.
• Help drive MSP performance improvements and proactively identify and implement service improvements in operational delivery processes.
• Work with Business owners and users on projects by supporting testing efforts, monitoring project progress, providing additional project management support, and attending information exchange and touchpoint meetings with project teams.
• Monitor SFTP server activity for interfaces to determine what interfaces are being created and/or retrieved.
• Send communications to FIN SFTP account owners informing them of scheduled system outages or maintenance that affects OAKS.

REQUIRED:

1. Experience in PeopleSoft ERP Operations Management. 3 Years
2. PeopleSoft Financial Management 9.x product experience in following 3 Years
3. (Accounts Payable and Receivable, Asset Management, Billing, General Ledger, Budget Development, Strategic Sourcing, 3 Years
4. Experience in Supply Chain, Travel & Expense, Commitment Control, Procurement, Self Service) 3 Years
5. Application management/outsourcing experience preferably onshore in a leadership role
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Large/complex organization experience
7. Experience working with MS Office 365 suite (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, etc.) 3 Years
8. Public Sector experience Highly desired
9. Experience working with, or as a part of, a Tier-One System Integrator firm providing PeopleSoft/Oracle professional services Highly desired
10. Ability to interface and resolve issues across all levels of an organization Highly desired
11. Upgrade and/or application patch, bundle, or image experience Highly desired
12. 4 year college degree Highly desired
13. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
14. ITIL Certification
15. PeopleSoft Certification(s)
16. Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or other specific SQL databases