PeopleSoft Finance Business Analyst

Position: PeopleSoft Finance Business Analyst
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Duration: Approximately 3 Years
Work Arrangement: Remote/ Travel once a month
Pay Rate: $60 - 70/hr + expenses
Resources from GA, TN, NC, SC, Florida, and Alabama will be considered only

Position Overview

Client is seeking experienced Finance Business Analysts to support a long-term Business Process Improvement (BPI) initiative focused on evaluating, documenting, streamlining, and modernizing existing financial business processes.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in financial business analysis, process assessment, requirements gathering, and process improvement, preferably within a PeopleSoft Financials environment.

The selected candidates will work closely with finance stakeholders, functional subject matter experts (SMEs), technical teams, and project leadership to assess current-state processes, identify operational gaps, and develop recommendations for improved future-state financial operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops with finance teams to understand and document existing business processes.
• Develop detailed current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) business process maps and workflows.
• Analyze financial operations to identify inefficiencies, manual workarounds, process gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements and functional specifications.
• Recommend process improvements and opportunities to leverage existing PeopleSoft Financials functionality.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, functional SMEs, technical teams, and project leadership to align business needs with proposed solutions.
• Support business process redesign, workflow optimization, and standardization initiatives.
• Participate in functional testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and validation of redesigned processes.
• Support change management activities, including stakeholder communication and process transition.
• Prepare detailed process documentation, assessment findings, recommendations, and presentations for leadership.
• Track project activities, deliverables, and action items to ensure successful execution of BPI initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Finance Business Analyst, Business Process Analyst, or Functional Business Analyst.
• Strong background in financial business process assessment, analysis, and improvement initiatives.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and business workshops.
• Strong requirements gathering, documentation, and business process modeling skills.
• Ability to develop and document As-Is and To-Be process maps and workflows.
• Working knowledge of financial business processes, including:
• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Purchasing and Procurement
• Budgeting and Financial Planning
• Financial Reporting
• Experience identifying process inefficiencies, operational gaps, and opportunities for process optimization.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with both functional business teams and technical teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Oracle PeopleSoft Financials.
• Experience evaluating and optimizing existing PeopleSoft functionality to improve financial business operations.
• Experience with ERP financial systems and financial process transformation initiatives.
• Previous experience supporting public-sector, state-government, or government financial operations.
• Knowledge of ERP functional workflows, financial controls, and enterprise financial processes.
• Experience supporting testing, UAT, change management, and implementation activities.
• Familiarity with process modeling and documentation tools.

Key Skills

• Finance Business Analysis
• Business Process Improvement (BPI)
• PeopleSoft Financials
• As-Is / To-Be Process Mapping
• Business Requirements Gathering
• Process Assessment & Optimization
• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Purchasing & Procurement
• Budgeting & Financial Reporting
• Functional Documentation
• Stakeholder Management
• Functional Testing & UAT
• Change Management
• Public-Sector Financial Operations