Job Title: IT Consultant 1
Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months
Interview: Onsite Interview
Submit candidates who will work from client location
Complete Description:
Role Description
- Act as a PeopleSoft Financial (FIN) Management and Product Specialist.
- Work with Business and Managed Services vendors to support day-to-day PeopleSoft-based Financial Operations and Projects.
- Use business process modeling and/or vendor solution evaluations to analyze potential for streamlining or reengineering business processes via implementation of information technology solutions.
- Help manage the State's relationship with its ERP Managed Services Providers (MSP) to ensure that SLA's and other performance metrics are met.
- Drive collaboration with key Business, internal Infrastructure, MSP, Security, and other critical stakeholder organizations to ensure that the ERP FIN application operates efficiently in support of business operations calendars.
- Gather and analyze information from stakeholders, business owners, customers and management.
- Lead identification, triage, troubleshooting and reporting of production issues and problems in the ERP FIN application.
- Work to understand customer issues and communicate these issues to ERP FIN application support personnel/organizations.
- Identify risks and recommend changes related to processes, projects and procedures.
- Consult with the Business and MSP on critical aspects of break/fix approaches and planned enhancements.
- Perform as liaison between various stakeholders, managing stakeholder expectations and ensuring successful communications between project team members.
- Develop project plans with project managers or recommend approaches through defining tasks, leading meetings and other tasks to gather and coordinate activities for requirements gathering.
- Develop and/or review business requirements documents for requested enhancements to ensure that specifications are clear and include information needed by MSP developers to fulfill enhancement requests.
- Make recommendations for gains in efficiency or costs through implementation of information technology solutions.
- Validate MSP vendor estimates for completing enhancements and perform code reviews of MSP-delivered enhancements.
- Perform validation of solutions by analyzing the end product and specification requirements.
- Help drive MSP performance improvements and proactively identify and implement service improvements in operational delivery processes.
- Work with Business owners and users on projects by supporting testing efforts, monitoring project progress, providing additional project management support, and attending information exchange and touchpoint meetings with project teams.
- Monitor SFTP server activity for interfaces to determine what interfaces are being created and/or retrieved.
- Send communications to FIN SFTP account owners informing them of scheduled system outages or maintenance that affect clients.
Required Skills:
- Experience in PeopleSoft ERP Operations Management – Required 3 Years.
- PeopleSoft Financial Management 9.x product experience in following – Required 3 Years.
- (Accounts Payable and Receivable, Asset Management, Billing, General Ledger, Budget Development, Strategic Sourcing – Required 3 Years.
- Experience in Supply Chain, Travel & Expense, Commitment Control, Procurement, Self Service – Required 3 Years.
- Application management/outsourcing experience – preferably onshore – in a leadership role – Required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Large/complex organization experience – Required.
- Experience working with MS Office 365 suite (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, etc.) – Required 3 Years.
- Public Sector experience – Highly desired.
- Experience working with, or as a part of, a Tier-One System Integrator firm providing PeopleSoft/Oracle professional services – Highly desired.
- Ability to interface and resolve issues across all levels of an organization – Highly desired.
- Upgrade and/or application patch, bundle, or image experience – Highly desired.
- 4-year college degree – Highly desired 4 Years.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification – Highly desired.
- ITIL Certification – Highly desired.
- PeopleSoft Certification(s) – Highly desired.
- Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or other specific SQL databases – Highly desired.
Job ID: 484340114
Originally Posted on: 7/7/2025
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