Franklin Templeton - Peoplesoft Financials Functional Consultant

Job Title: Sr. Financials System Analyst

Reports To Title: Manager

Job location : Hyderabad

The Senior Financials Systems Analyst confirms the business' needs and documents existing business processes, workflows, system processes, and data flows in order to identify, recommend, and document the appropriate new business and systems requirements to address those needs. Once approved, the Senior Systems Analyst works closely with their Application Development team and Testing Services by supporting the technical system design, systems testing, integration testing, quality assurance testing and user acceptance testing to implement the agreed upon solution.

Job Duties/ Responsibilities

Production Support

- Work on PeopleSoft Asset Management and Project Costing tickets

- Perform and review recurring tasks and user support on timely basis

- Provide end user support for technical problems or application questions

- Develop and document system administration policies and procedures

- Work with software vendor/developer for upgrades, enhancements, fixes, and troubleshooting

- Track and resolve user support issues with current systems

- Maintain strong working relationships with project team members, internal finance customers, and external service vendors

- Provide end-user system training as needed

Requirements Analysis

- Works with Business and Project teams to understand and clarify business requirements

- Understands system design, application data models and entity relationships and contributes to finalizing the business requirements

- Develop business and system process flows

Solution Design

- Analyzes, designs, integrates, and implements solutions across multiple applications in a domain, to include work processes, modifications, interfaces, and reports

- Consults with users to streamline complex work processes

- Designs interfaces, features, and new technologies

- Advises on technical solutions for business requirements to maximize efficiencies

Implementation

- Coordinates implementation of changes to existing applications

- Documents configuration and participates in code reviews and walkthroughs

- Prepares system test plans, test cases and scripts for a medium-large sized systems

- Performs system and regression testing and helps with triage and clarification of issues uncovered in user acceptance testing for the application development team

- Coordinate and communicate with users, Systems Administration, IS&T, and contractors in multiple time zones to implement, enhance, or create new or revised systems

Miscellaneous

- Perform other duties as requested by Project managers and Managers

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

(Years of experience is not applicable for European jobs)

- Advanced degree - 8 years- experience

- Bachelor degree - 10 years- experience

- 8+ years of experience in PeopleSoft Financials

- Strong Business analysis skills around finance and /or Information technology Projects.

- Strong Consultative and Advisory Skills

- Experience in PeopleSoft Accounts Payables, Bank Account Maintenance (70% Functional, 30% Technical).

- Experience with Imaging solutions is preferred

- Experience in PeopleSoft eProcurement, Purchasing and Asset Management is preferred

- Experience in Treasury Cash Management (Bank Reconciliation, Statements processing) preferred.

- Experience identifying, writing and prioritizing business requirements.

- Experience with Finance Business Process and Systems preferred.

- Intermediate level understanding of Finance and Accounting practices preferred.

- Financials services, Securities or accounting industry experience preferred.

- Hands-on Accounting experience, preferably in corporate accounting with experience in financial close and regulatory filing.

- Basic experience utilizing MS Office (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio & Project)

- Preferred having experience with other PeopleSoft modules AP, AR, BI and GL

LICENSES and CERTIFICATIONS

- Oracle Certification in PeopleSoft Project Costing and Asset Management preferred, but not essential

ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

- N/A

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES

- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with persons contacted in the course of performing assigned duties including Company management and outside business associates

- Attention to details

- Ability to interact with all level of management including senior management on a regular basis

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

- Analytical, problem solving and decision making skills

- Knowledge of finance business systems preferred.

- Familiarity with a system development lifecycle methodology

PROBLEM SOLVING and DECISION MAKING

- Able to perform work without waiting for direction from other; participates in determining objectives of assignment; plans, schedules and arranges own activities in accomplishing objectives; work is reviewed for adequacy in meeting objectives

- Solves routine problems of moderate scope and complexity, following established policies and procedures

DESIRED LEADERSHIP SKILLS

- Ability to influence and negotiate within other departments and across the organization

- Ability to help set direction and guide project team to desired results