Sr. PeopleSoft CAPPS Financials Functional Consultant (General Ledger/Commitment Control)

Position Requirements

• Performing highly advanced (senior-level) consultative services and functional assistance work related to supporting the CAPPS Program.
• Responsible for functional CAPPS General Ledger (GL), Commitment Control Accounting (KK), Budgeting and Cash Receipts (CR) and Project Costing (PC) module subject matter expertise, including, but not limited to:
• Module Ownership 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
• Responsible for functional configuration skills, including, but not limited to:
• General Ledger setup and configuration
• ChartField design and maintenance
• Journal entry/Generator configuration and troubleshooting
• Allocation setup and processing
• Inter-Agency accounting
• USAS - GL Screens knowledge
• Ledger and Ledger Group configuration
• Closing processes (monthly, quarterly, yearly)
• Consolidations and financial reporting
• Combination Edit rules set up and maintenance
• Accounting Entry Templates
• Tree Manager and reporting hierarchies
• Financial reporting using PS Query
• GL security and role-based access
• Reconciliation and audit support
• Project setup and maintenance
• Cost tracking and allocations
• Budget monitoring
• Project billing support
• Project-to-GL reconciliation
• Loading CAPPS – Cash Receipts
• Process Receipts
• CR Definition setup, Fee Codes Reference Types and Fee Codes Maintenance
• Integration with Cash receipts, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Asset Management, and Project Costing

Minimum 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.
• Experience working with the General Ledger/Commitment Control core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
• 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 PeopleSoft 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.
• WCAG 2.1-compliant materials preparation experience.
• Experience working with the CAPPS Financials Cash Receipts module.
• ITIL principles and practices knowledge 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 PeopleSoft Project Costing module version 9.2.
• Experience working with the Asset Management core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• Experience working with the Accounts Payable core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• Experience working with the Purchasing/eProcurement core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• CPA experience with and knowledge of production support activities for CPA’s legacy Statewide Financial Systems (preferred).
• Experience working with the Accounts Receivable/Billing non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• Experience working with the Inventory non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• Experience working with the Project Costing non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• Experience working with the Strategic Sourcing non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).
• Experience working with the Travel & Expense non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2 (preferred).