Lead Business Analyst - FMS

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 Education and Experience

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

70% Contribute independent subject matter expertise and execution of assigned tasks including :

• Develop, manage and collaborate on standard practices and processes within the SDLC framework.
• Become a mentor to other business analysts; building a sense of community within the team.
• Actively promote the value of Business Analysis throughout the organization.
• Prepare periodic reports on project status, progress, risks, deadlines and resource requirements for specific track.
• Support project objectives
• Provide direction, support and feedback within the Business Analysis team.
• Perform team lead duties including scheduling, reporting to management, supervising analysts, delegating and prioritizing workloads.
• Resolve issues within and across teams.
• Recommendations for process / procedure improvements
• Project management
• Leverage technology to help reduce manual tasks and continually improve processes.
• Build and maintain lasting relationships with all business stakeholders.

15% Contribute independent subject matter expertise and execution of assigned including :

• Incident management and resolution
• Request fulfillment
• Problem management root cause analysis
• Assisting with compiling / review business cases
• Planning and monitoring, eliciting and organizing business requirements
• Translating and simplifying business requirements
• Requirements management and communication
• Analysis of business requirements
• Development of detailed test plans

10% Collaborate and share knowledge including :

• Demonstrating functionality and expertise to educate internal / campus customers
• Documenting and sharing tools, tips and knowledge within and across teams
• Provide content / develop communication to external end users
• Posting and reviewing with internal / campus customers helpful documentation for SME

5% Other functions as assigned

Additional Information

• Position location will be discussed during the interview process. Location can be Fort Worth, TX or Richardson, TX.
• Hybrid remote work environment available. A UT Dallas Remote Work Agreement is required upon employment.
• Must have the ability to be on Richardson campus with 48 hours of notice.

Important Message

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EOE, including disability / veterans. The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.

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