PeopleSoft Business Systems Analyst Payroll

You will analyze and document payroll requirements, create functional designs and supporting documentation, and help deliver PeopleSoft Payroll solutions. You will support the PeopleSoft 9.2 upgrade, apply and validate tax updates, investigate production issues, analyze data with SQL and PS Query, and plan and execute testing through resolution.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, document, validate, and prioritize PeopleSoft payroll requirements.
• Produce business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, configuration documents, test scripts, and user guides.
• Translate business needs into functional designs for configurations, customizations, reports, and interfaces.
• Apply PeopleSoft Payroll knowledge across earnings, deductions, taxes, gross-to-net, retro processing, off-cycle processing, payroll calendars, pay groups, garnishments, year-end processing, and reporting.
• Support the PeopleSoft 9.2 upgrade through fit-gap analysis, configuration review, retrofit, impact assessment, and functional validation.
• Review, apply, and validate payroll tax updates and patches.
• Provide functional production support, triage incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate fixes.
• Use SQL and PeopleSoft Query to analyze payroll data, validate results, investigate discrepancies, and support reporting and audit requests.
• Plan, design, and execute unit, system integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Prepare stakeholder status updates and training materials.

Requirements

• Business Systems Analyst experience in requirements gathering, functional documentation, and solution design.
• Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft HCM Payroll; North American payroll is preferred.
• Recent PeopleSoft 9.2 upgrade experience.
• Experience supporting a production PeopleSoft payroll environment.
• SQL and PS Query skills for data analysis and validation.
• Experience with test planning, SIT, UAT, and test payroll validation.
• Experience applying and validating payroll tax updates.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with business and technical teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.