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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.
- 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)
- Legacy Statewide Financial Systems production support
- Legacy financial systems operations and maintenance
- Enterprise financial system production support
- Statewide government financial systems experience
Salary : $85 - $90