Posting Number: S05712P
Department: Shared Services
Salary Range: Commensurate with experience
Pay Basis: Hourly
Position Status: Regular full-time
Location: Multiple Locations
Job Description:
The Business Analyst Team Lead works with stakeholders from all business units and related third-parties to define and document business processes and software requirements for technology initiatives. The primary purpose is to oversee application configuration, testing and validation while providing support to direct staff; assign resources to support technology roadmaps for PeopleSoft Financials and related ancillary systems including Oracle Hyperion products and related tools.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and 6 years of related experience or associate's degree and 8 years of related experience or high school diploma and 10 years of related experience.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree with coursework in computing, information systems, accounting or related field and eight to twelve years of progressively responsible PeopleSoft support and analysis experience.
- Proficient in three or more modules or areas in any of the following tracks:
- Sourcing to Pay: Procurement, ePro, Jaggaer, Accounts Payable, Travel and Expense, My Wallet, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Contracts, eSupplier, Related reporting, 3rd party Interfaces (Jaggaer, Concur, PaymentWorks)
- General Finance and Budgeting: General Ledger, Asset Management, Treasury, Commitment Control, nVision, Financial Reporting, 3rd party Interfaces (Banner, Touchnet)
- Grants Management: Grants, Contracts, Project Costing, Accounts Receivable (AR for Grants and Non-Grant Billing), Related reporting, 3rd party Interfaces (eCert)
- Extensive experience with PS Fluid Interface; Approval framework and work centers.
- Extensive experience with SQL, Query Manager and related tools.
- 2 years supervisory or equivalent experience.
- Ability to use requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests, and manage a project's scope, acceptance, installation and deployment.
- Solid working knowledge of two or more modules in PeopleSoft 9.1 and 9.2 FMS suite.
- Guide and manage work efforts of the Business Analysis team.
- Research, review and recommend technical tools and products that promote an effective and efficient team.
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: functional requirements, business requirements document, use cases, development and interface designs. Utilize experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies.
- Effectively communicate verbally and in written form to interact professionally with a diverse group, including executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
- Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
- Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
- Cherwell (Incident and Problem Management, Request Fulfillment, Change Management, etc.) hands-on experience.
- Excellent organizational skills, leadership skills, promote teamwork, problem-solving, and understanding of systems engineering concepts.
- Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint, Project).
- Strong skills with operating Phire, Cherwell or any change management and incident management system; Telerik test studio.
- Solid working knowledge of all phases of the application development life cycle specifically business case development, modeling techniques and methods and ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; including technical writing skills.
- Hands-on experience with one or more PeopleSoft applications with emphasis in Financials (Campus Solutions, Portal/Interaction Hub, Human Capital Management, EPM, DataStage) and integrating PeopleSoft with non-PeopleSoft Applications or third-party systems such as Jaggaer, CONCUR, TouchNet and similar Student and other financial systems.
Important Message:
1) All employees serve as a representative of the University and are expected to display respect, civility, professional courtesy, consideration of others and discretion in all interactions with members of the UT Dallas community and the general public.
2) The University of Texas at Dallas is committed to providing an educational, living, and working environment that is welcoming, respectful, and inclusive of all members of the university community. UT Dallas does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in its services, programs, activities, employment, and education, including in admission and enrollment. EOE, including disability/veterans. The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the employment application and interview process, contact the ADA Coordinator. For inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies, contact the Title IX Coordinator.
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