Systems Analyst 3

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Position Details
Title:PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 HR/Payroll Analyst
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months (Possible extension)
Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary
The Systems Analyst 3 role supports a large public sector PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 HR/Payroll enterprise environment, providing senior-level functional and technical expertise across payroll processing, HR configuration, system integrations, batch operations, reporting, and enterprise-wide production support. The role involves overseeing payroll and HR operations for a multi-agency statewide system, ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations, supporting year-end and fiscal processes, managing incidents, and coordinating with technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders. This position also plays a key role in system governance, audits, security compliance, and strategic HR/Payroll process improvements.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the functional subject matter expert for PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Payroll.
• Provide day-to-day support for payroll operations, configuration, and production issues.
• Troubleshoot payroll calculation errors, retro pay, tax discrepancies, integrations, and payroll processing issues.
• Support the complete payroll lifecycle, including pay calendars, paysheets, payroll calculations, confirmations, audits, and reconciliations.
• Configure and maintain payroll components such as earnings, deductions, garnishments, taxes, pay groups, accumulators, rate codes, and commitment accounting.
• Process on-cycle, off-cycle, reversals, cancellations, and special payroll transactions.
• Support year-end payroll activities, including W-2/W-3 processing, 1095-C reporting, tax updates, and regulatory compliance.
• Assist with quarterly tax reconciliations and payroll audit activities.
• Develop, modify, and troubleshoot PS Queries, SQL queries, BI Publisher reports, and SAP BusinessObjects reports.
• Support payroll integrations, data loads, interfaces, and synchronization with external and legacy systems.
• Configure and support Approval Workflow Engine (AWE), including workflows, roles, notifications, and troubleshooting.
• Perform functional configuration and maintenance of HR and payroll tables, business units, departments, positions, and compensation structures.
• Create and maintain functional design documents, configuration documentation, procedures, and test scripts.
• Conduct unit testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), regression testing, and validation of system changes.
• Support PeopleSoft tools and technologies including Application Designer, Integration Broker, SQR, BI Publisher, PUM, Change Assistant, Fluid UI, and Elasticsearch.
• Monitor payroll batch jobs, schedules, dependencies, failures, output validation, and performance tuning activities.
• Ensure compliance with security standards, access controls, data integrity, and multi-tenancy requirements.
• Gather business requirements and support system enhancements, break/fix activities, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with HR, Time & Labor, payroll operations, technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Provide user support, training, knowledge transfer, and cross-training to business and support teams.
• Support fiscal year-end and calendar year-end activities, including reconciliations, system updates, budget loads, and benefit enrollment integrations.
• Participate in project implementations, module enhancements, legislative changes, and third-party integration initiatives.
• Provide advanced Level 2 production support, incident management, and service desk support.
• Follow ITIL processes for incident, change, problem, and service management.
• Participate in major incident management (P1/P2), disaster recovery testing, upgrade testing, and production readiness activities.
• Ensure WCAG 2.1 accessibility compliance for system content and deliverables.
• Support audit and compliance activities, including SOC audits, internal controls, security reviews, and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and status updates for stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure system stability, performance, accuracy, and compliance with organizational policies and procedures.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of State of Texas policies and procedures
• Knowledge of federal labor laws
• PeopleSoft system configuration and functional setup
• Application Designer
• Integration Broker
• SQR
• SQL
• BI Publisher
• SAP BusinessObjects
• Security best practices and NIST standards
• Multi-tenancy ERP environments
• Texas public sector / state government experience
• Strategic roadmap development and management
• PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 HR/Payroll support
• Run My Jobs (RMJ) / batch job management
• PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager)
• Fluid UI
• Elasticsearch
• Functional project management
• Tier 2 Service Desk support
• Major Incident Management (P1/P2 incidents)
• Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises
• Executive-level presentations
• Audit support and open records request reporting
• Vendor management and contract compliance
• SQL-based system synchronization and data reconciliation
• Multi-agency payroll support
• Quarterly 941 reconciliations
• Payroll discrepancy resolution
• Fiscal Year process planning and coordination
• Approval Workflow Engine (AWE)
• WCAG 2.1 accessibility compliance
• ITIL
• IT Service Management (ITSM)
• IT Asset Management (ITAM)

Preferred Skills

• Legacy Statewide Financial Systems production support
• Legacy financial systems operations and maintenance
• Enterprise financial system production support
• Statewide government financial systems experience