Principal Peoplesoft Functional Lead Resume
Sarasota, FL
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Highly experienced senior functional information system professional with more than 14 years of experience in analysis, implementation, upgrades and production support of PeopleSoft Financials.
- Experienced in full project software development lifecycle implementation, design development and customization of PeopleSoft.
- Involved in financial statements preparation, month - end close, balance sheet analysis, budgeting and forecasting, consolidation, intercompany analysis, financial reporting, data analysis and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
- Exceptional troubleshooting skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Technology and Tools: Systems - ERP Implementation, upgrade and support of PeopleSoft 9.2 with expertise in GL, AP (including Withholdings), ePro, EX, PC, Procurement, Contracts, Allocations and Pcard. QA, UAT, Upgrades, Legacy Data Conversions and Treasury Workstation (IT2) implementation; PL/SQL, PS nVision, UltiPro and MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook); Accounting & Finance - Financial Statements Preparation, Month End Close, Balance Sheet Analysis, Budget and Forecast, Consolidation, Intercompany Analysis, Financial Reporting, Data Analysis and SOX Compliance
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Sarasota, FL
Principal PeopleSoft Functional Lead
Responsibilities:
- Lead requirement definition and configuration for the General Ledger and Commitment Control.
- Redesigned Chart Of Account structure and levels to follow State of FL requirements.
- Reports to project management mitigating steps and actions taken to ensure project success and quality;
- Facilitate solutions as needed;
- Worked collaboratively with other team members and staff to develop implementation module and test plans;
Environment: PeopleSoft 9. 2 (General Ledger and Commitment Control).
Confidential, Orlando, FL
PeopleSoft Project Costing Support Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing high level of technical support for PeopleSoft Financials Project Accounting
- Initiated and participated in process improvements within the product line, participate in system and release testing, acquire and maintain current knowledge of relevant product and service offerings and support policies and understand its impact;
- Read and decipher software log and trace files as well as develop code to automate data collection, problem diagnosis and resolution;
Environment: s: PeopleSoft 9.1 & 9.2 (Project Costing, Maintenance Management and Contracts).
Confidential, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
Sr PeopleSoft Functional Lead
Responsibilities:
- Led Implementation PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses for University of Texas RGV Campus;
- Prepared draft of business requirements, process flow, functional design documents, configuration documents, testing and stabilization;
- Suggested different strategies to implement PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses from legacy system (SciQuest).
- Defined business requirements and developed project plan for Travel Authorizations and Ghost Cards;
- Provided production support, incident management, change requests and overall troubleshooting for PeopleSoft Travel and Expenses business units already live;
Environment: PeopleSoft 9.2 (Travel and Expenses, PCard and Queries).
Confidential, Baltimore, MD
PeopleSoft Functional SME/ Manager
Responsibilities:
- Provided and stabilization support for the implementation of PeopleSoft 9.1 GL, AP, ePro, Procurement, Contracts, Travel and Expenses and Inventory in Mexico, Peru, Saudi, Brazil and Shared Services in Chile and Mexico;
- Provided production support, change orders and enhancements for shared services and Latin America business units in AP, GL, ePro, Procurement, Contracts,Travel and Expenses, AM, Inventory, Period Close, Intercompany, Configuration review and performed QA and UAT;
- Reviewed and fixed ChartField configurations and overall configurations on GL, Travel and Expenses and AP including withholding's in Peru and Chile;
- Participated in drafting business requirements, process flow, functional design documents and testing for upgrades, enhancements and implementations;
- Managed multi-currency ledgers, books and processes, consolidation, InterUnit transactions, combo edits, ChartFields, trees, workflow approval for Payables and Travel and Expenses;
- Redesigned Purchasing Catalog including definition of Purchasing Categories and Items master, loaded and updated vendor master and contracts;
- Utilized Excel to Component Interface to load data, review and fix ChartFields and other configurations;
Environment: s: PeopleSoft 9.0 & 9.1 (GL, AP, ePRO, Procurement, Contracts, Travel and Expenses, Queries, nVision, excel to ci interface, PL/SQL) and Brazil Instance.
Confidential
Senior PeopleSoft Finance Functional Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Oversaw production support for PeopleSoft Financials systems including General Ledger(GL), Payables (AP, Travel and Expenses, Receivables, Project Costing, PCard, Pay/Bill Management, queries and nVision and served as knowledge resource for internal customers with data analysis and financial reporting;
- Designed and developed Travel and Expense workflow and configuration for new business units including the creation of Travel and Expenses business units, VAT setup and parameters of payments along with their interfaces with AP and GL.
- Delivered project on time and under budget.
- Managed the weekly close on Expenses, GL, AP and PC and reporting processes, including status communications to respective business leaders;
- Assisted in drafting business requirements and testing of PeopleSoft implementation to version 9.1 of Pcard upgrade;
Environment: s: PeopleSoft versions 8.8 (GL, AP, Travel and Expense, PL/SQL, Pcard, Paybill, Queries and nVision) and upgrading to 9.1.
Confidential, Tampa, FL
Peoplesoft GL Implementation Solutions Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Project lead for North America General Ledger Implementation for PeopleSoft version 9.1;
- Responsible for design, testing and implementation new businesses in GL to meet user and Confidential needs;
- Assisted in assignment and prioritization of tasks in test environments to resolve implementation issues;
- Produced and maintained configuration documents to illustrate functionality of PeopleSoft GL to meet business requirements;
- Created PS Queries, nVision reports and PeopleSoft Allocations and performed ChartFields maintenance;
Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1.
Confidential, Orlando, FL
Financial System Business Analyst/Peoplesoft System Business Admin
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all centralized maintenance of base tables, trees and allocations for MVCI's financial applications.
- Provided production support, change orders and facilitated enhancements to PeopleSoft ERP, EPM and Mosaic (PeopleSoft Travel Expense);
- Led the implementation and troubleshooting of Companywide Treasury Workstation System;
- Worked on initiatives that deliver scalable global solutions and / or automate core accounting processes, such as Combo edit rules for intercompany accounts and allocations;
- Oversaw the Division's use of ChartField Combination Edits, Allocations, Queries, Reports and Trees to ensure efficient use of system resources on PeopleSoft versions 7.5 and 8.8;
- Responsible for developing and maintaining new/existing security classes in all PeopleSoft modules operated by MVCI;
- Stayed current with PeopleSoft development and changes to the application and explore new functionality to identify areas where processes could be improved;
- Project team member for new financial system implementations, testing and upgrades;
- Developed and improve maintenance procedures to better serve all areas within MVCI Finance & Accounting as well as build and coordinate report materials for the end user;
Environment: s: PeopleSoft versions 7.5 (GL for Allocations), 8.8 (GL, AP, Travel and Expense (Mosaic) PL/SQL, Queries and nVision) and 8.9 (EPM).
Confidential, Orlando, FL
Senior Reporting Analyst/Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the preparation of the Narrative Memos for the Financial Overview Hilton Section explaining EBITDA variance by company segment;
- Produced consolidated financial reports including Budget, Forecast, Flash, Preliminary and Final Financials, Financial Overview Hilton section and Supplemental, Period Close and Project-to-Date Reports;
- Analyzed complex financial information and reports to provide clear, accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision-making purposes;
- Prepared ad-hoc analysis of various performance measures highlighting its key drivers;
- Developed and implemented the process for reporting on strategic performance indicators including the creation and maintenance of various PeopleSoft Reports (PS/nVision), and made significant implementation in the financial modules mainly through automation (Macros, Links, Validation Matrixes, Pivot Tables, and creation of reports);
- Assisted in special projects by providing financial and business expertise, financial information and financial analysis, including modeling of future and past performance;
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.2.
Confidential
Corporate Accountant
Responsibilities:
- Produced comprehensive financial reports, consolidate and prepare accounting reports for multiple Business Units;
- Maintained general ledger including ensuring the general ledger is closed monthly within the timelines of Corporate closing schedule according to GAAP;
- Identified and resolved accounting and internal control issues at sales offices and marketing locations
- Monitored the Business Unit's flow of cash receipts and disbursements to meet the firm business and standards;
- Implemented procedures to improve financial accuracy and operating cost-effectiveness; this involving analysis between budgeted versus actual numbers;
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.2.