Role: People Soft Academic Analyst
Location: Herndon, VA
Essential Duties:

• Act as Functional lead/SME supporting People Soft systems.
  
• Leverage People Soft implementation and Higher Education business process experience to lead the on-going support and maintenance of People Soft modules.
  
• Lead overall functional requirements and gap analysis of new project requests which also includes creation of functional specifications for new development work.
  
• Responsible for successful completion of project goals and milestones.
  
• Complete configuration and functional set-ups in People Soft Campus Solutions modules.
  
• Complete tasks in an efficient and timely manner.
  
• Collaborate with other implementation team leads to optimize overall implementation.
  
• Lead review and testing of People Soft bundles including working with end users on new functionality and determine effect on current enhancements/modifications.
  
• Assist the technical team with testing of new enhancements/modifications.
  

Education:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience Certificates, licenses and registrations: None Work Experience: 3-5 years of experience as a business operations manager, project manager, consultant and/or business analyst with an information technology background.
  
• 3+ years experience of delivering enterprise information technology solutions.
  
• 2+ years experience in the higher education industry.
  

Skills:

• Functional leadership/SME experience in a People Soft implementation project.
  
• Knowledge of University business operations particularly in the student business areas such as Faculty, Academic Advising, Course Scheduling, Attendance, and Program/Plan.
  
• Functional experience in People Soft Campus Solutions Student Financials module with experience in configuration and functional set-ups is highly preferred.
  
• Experience in data analysis and ability to create SQL queries is highly desirable.
  
• Strong analytical skills and ability to think outside the box.
  
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
  
• Ability to frame decisions based on key organizational metrics such as business impact, ROI, etc.
  
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and quality.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills.

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