Allied Consultants, Inc. is a proudly Austin-based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. They are currently seeking an experienced PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2 General Ledger Business Analyst to support concurrent upgrades and implement new module projects for state government financial systems.
Responsibilities:
- Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives
- Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system
- Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be summarized, and formats for reports
- Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program
- Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system
- Support concurrent upgrades and implement new module projects for state government financial systems
- Perform requirements analysis, facilitate meetings with subject matter experts (SMEs), document complex system requirements and processes, develop test scenarios and scripts, prepare training materials, conduct hands-on testing, and support multiple test cycles
Requirements:
- 8 years of hands-on experience with PeopleSoft FSCM on implementation or upgrade projects as a General Ledger and Commitment Accounting business analyst
- 8 years of hands-on experience with state government accounting practice
- 8 years of hands-on experience creating all forms of project deliverables as a business analyst
- 8 years of hands-on experience conducting end-to-end system testing
- 8 years of hands-on experience presenting information to business stakeholders in a formal setting
- 8 years of experience with Microsoft O365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
- 8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected
- 4 years of hands-on experience working with the Texas state agencies' PeopleSoft FSCM (CAPPS Financials) system
- 4 years of hands-on experience working in the Scrum framework and Jira
- 2 years of hands-on experience working with SharePoint lists
- 2 years of hands-on experience working with various Microsoft Teams features
- 1 year of experience with Phire