Business Systems Analyst, FSCM

Salary Range: 

Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications

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About the Position:

This role is an on-campus, in-person position.

This position is a business systems analyst supporting the PeopleSoft Financials Supply Chain Management (FSCM) system needs of SMU. The role provides functional, business support, and maintenance for PeopleSoft/Oracle FSCM v9.2 (modules are General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Asset Management, Purchasing, ePro, Accounts Receivables, Billing, Contracts, Project Costing, Grants and Commitment Control).  

Functional support includes application configuration, systems analysis, issue resolution and business process streamlining/re-engineering.  Provides query/report writing, project management and integration support. Position also provides requirements for requested technical work and testing of processes for updates or upgrades and sign-off on customizations.

Essential Functions:

• Configuration and analysis of the supported systems in collaboration with the business units to ensure requirements are met with successful outcomes in the most efficient and effective manner. Translate requirements to technical design, and work with OIT staff to implement requirements. Document business process and any customizations through the use of flowcharting and business process documents.
   

• Research, replicate, and evaluate end user system problems and issues. Manages/Approves PeopleSoft security requests and provides day to day operational system support.
   

• Provides system testing for new implementations, upgrades and update/fix patches.  Leads collaboration with business units on business process support, including re-engineering, streamlining and adopting industry best practices. 
   

• Backup Functional administrative duties, daily processing, daily customer service problems/issues, passive event processing, help resolve system errors or process issues.
   

• Ensure accuracy of third party vendor files, file transmissions, and other operational processes. Run test processes to verify accuracy of all configurations and other settings. 
   

• Project manage technology integrations and solutions at an enterprise level.
   

• Design system specifications and work with Business and Finance Services functional leads and OIT developers and staff to develop or modify programs/reports.
   

• Use Peoplesoft Query, Oracle SQL, Gideon Taylor eform framework, Unified Functional Testing and other tools to generate reports and validate data and information for Business/Finance and other campus end users.
   

• Occasional evening and weekend hours may be required during system upgrades or when resolving critical issues.