Senior PeopleSoft HCM Payroll Functional Consultant

Company: Astute Business Solutions
Position Type: Consulting / Contract
Specialization: PeopleSoft Payroll for North America, Time and Labor, FLSA Regular/Blended Rates, and ADP Integration

Position Overview

Astute Business Solutions is seeking an experienced PeopleSoft HCM Payroll Functional Consultant for a consulting engagement supporting a university’s payroll enhancement initiatives. The consultant will lead requirements gathering, functional design, testing, reconciliation, and implementation support for:

• Paycheck stub enhancements: Display earnings by job/position, support employees with multiple jobs, and coordinate PeopleSoft-to-ADP data mapping and paycheck presentation.

• California sick-time pay enhancements: Apply the delivered PeopleSoft FLSA regular/blended rate to qualifying sick-time earnings through an enhancement developed by the technical team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements workshops with Payroll, HRIS, technical developers, and ADP.

• Assess existing PeopleSoft Payroll and Time and Labor configurations, processes, and customizations.

• Develop functional specifications, eligibility rules, data mappings, test scripts, and acceptance criteria.

• Define paycheck requirements for regular, overtime, and other earnings by job/position, including current-period and year-to-date amounts.

• Review PAY003 and paycheck output from a functional perspective and document required enhancements.

• Coordinate PeopleSoft-to-ADP interface mapping, paycheck layout validation, testing, and issue resolution.

• Analyze delivered FLSA regular/blended-rate processing and its application to qualifying California sick-time earnings.

• Define requirements for employee eligibility, sick-time earnings codes, rate overrides, payroll recalculation, audit logging, and exception handling.

• Validate multiple-job and multiple-rate scenarios.

• Lead functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.

• Reconcile PeopleSoft payroll results, interface output, and final ADP paycheck stubs.

• Support production implementation, payroll validation, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on functional experience with PeopleSoft HCM Payroll for North America.

• Strong knowledge of payroll calculation, recalculation, confirmation, earnings codes, pay-line overrides, and reconciliation.

• Experience with PeopleSoft Time and Labor integration with Payroll.

• Practical experience with delivered PeopleSoft FLSA regular/blended-rate processing, including multiple-job and multiple-rate employees.

• Experience defining paycheck requirements and validating current-period and year-to-date earnings.

• Experience with payroll interfaces and source-to-target data mapping.

• Proven ability to develop functional specifications, test scripts, and payroll support documentation.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently with business stakeholders and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Higher education or university PeopleSoft HCM experience.

• Direct experience with ADP integration and paycheck stub enhancements.

• Functional familiarity with PAY003, BI Publisher paycheck output, and PS_PY_EE_REG_RATE.

• Experience with California sick-time payroll enhancements.

• Ability to use SQL or PS Query for payroll validation and troubleshooting.

• Experience collaborating with Application Engine, Component Interface, and PeopleCode developers.

Role Focus: This consulting position will own functional requirements, solution validation, and testing while partnering with technical developers on development and interface changes.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume, availability, location/time zone, and expected consulting hourly rate, along with a brief summary of your experience with PeopleSoft Payroll, FLSA regular/blended rates, multiple-job payroll scenarios, and ADP interfaces. HR@beastute.com