CAPPS Peoplesoft Financial Towers Analyst, Austin, Tx

About the role

The selected Vendor's Candidate will be part of CPA's Fiscal Management Statewide Fiscal Systems team, supporting the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) Program. The CAPPS Program for this engagement comprises the following components: HR/Payroll (inclusive of Recruit functionality), Financials, STARR, and all ancillary systems.

Responsibilities

• Performing highly advanced (senior-level) consultative services and functional assistance work related to supporting the CAPPS Program.
• Responsible for functional CAPPS Purchasing (PO) and Contracts module subject matter expertise, including, but not limited to: Module coordination and Expertise Production Support and Issue Resolution Configuration and Maintenance Business Process Leadership Change Management and Enhancements Testing (Functional and UAT coordination)
• Integrations with other Modules Compliance and Policy Alignment Training and User Support Reporting and Analytics Release Management and Patch Release
• Support requisitions, sourcing, contracts, purchase orders, receiving, and inventory transactions Support vendor, contract, and procurement processes
• Maintaining perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust experiences for all users, regularly reviewing content for compliance, and implementing updates or remediation whenever accessibility issues are identified.

Requirements

• 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 participating in Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Experience preparing and presenting executive-level presentations.
• Experience gathering and presenting applicable data in support of system enhancements, process changes, or system fixes.

Qualifications

This position requires candidates to have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, and at least 10 years of relevant experience. 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 participating in Disaster Recovery exercises, experience preparing and presenting executive-level presentations, experience gathering and presenting applicable data in support of system enhancements, process changes, or system fixes.

Skills

App Designer, Integration Broker, assorted SQR/SQL, BI Publisher, SAP Business Objects, system configuration changes, batch jobs, security best practices, NIST standards, multi-tenancy, strategic roadmap creation, project management, service desk support, disaster recovery, executive-level presentations, data gathering and presentation.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and support to agency personnel in accordance with established requests and organizational requirements, structured cross-training to support junior analyst capability growth, performance tuning, documentation, proper communication and escalation, ensuring compliance when schedules must be altered, monitoring all CAPPS PO batch jobs, tracking job schedules, detecting and responding to failures, validating output, managing dependencies, ensuring efficient system performance, enforcing security, including multi-tenancy, maintaining perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust experiences for all users, regularly reviewing content for compliance, and implementing updates or remediation whenever accessibility issues are identified.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

100% Remote