CAPPS Financials Purchasing Analyst
Posted Today by Maddisoft
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote or Austin, Texas
Summary: The CAPPS Financials Purchasing Analyst role involves providing advanced consultative services and functional assistance for the CAPPS Program, specifically focusing on the Purchasing and Contracts module. The position requires extensive experience in system configuration, technical skills, and collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure effective procurement processes. The analyst will also support training, user support, and compliance with state policies while managing system enhancements and integrations. This role is remote but based in Austin, Texas, and is open to U.S. citizens and authorized workers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform advanced consultative services and functional assistance for the CAPPS Program.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for the CAPPS Purchasing (PO) and Contracts module.
- Conduct functional configuration work, including purchasing business unit setup and requisition processing.
- Apply technical skills for applicable tools, including SQL and report customization.
- Monitor CAPPS PO batch jobs and ensure compliance with schedules.
- Provide Level 2 Service Desk support and manage complex ticket handling.
- Coordinate Fiscal Year-End activities and support project-level coordination.
- Ensure digital products meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
- Participate in Major Incident Management and Disaster Recovery Testing.
- Provide structured cross-training and support to junior analysts.
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of experience with State of Texas applicable policies.
- 10+ years of technical skills with App Designer, Integration Broker, SQR/SQL, and BI Publisher.
- 10+ years of experience in system configuration changes.
- 8+ years of experience with PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2, particularly the Purchasing module.
- Extensive knowledge of security best practices and multitenancy.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with ITIL principles and practices for IT service management.
- Ability to create and manage strategic roadmaps and perform cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience providing Tier 2 Service Desk support.
- Familiarity with support tools such as PUM and Fluid.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Austin
Country: United States
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Maddisoft has the following immediate opportunity, let us know if you or someone you know would be interested. Send in your resume ASAP. - U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. Send in resume along with LinkedIn profile without which applications will not be considered. Call us NOW! ***Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Job Title: CAPPS Financials Purchasing Analyst
Locations: Austin, TX (Remote)
Job Description
Below is the CAPPS Financials Functional Analyst job description reformatted without a table, with consolidated experience requirements and a single Preferred Qualifications heading.
CAPPS Financials Functional Analyst Job Description
Position Requirements
The CPA Work includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Perform highly advanced (senior-level) consultative services and functional assistance work related to supporting the CAPPS Program.
- Serve as functional subject matter expert for the CAPPS Purchasing (PO) and Contracts module, including:
- Module coordination and expertise
- Production support and issue resolution
- Configuration and maintenance
- Business process leadership
- Change management and enhancements
- Functional testing and UAT coordination
- Integrations with other modules
- Compliance and policy alignment
- Training and user support
- Reporting and analytics
- Release management and patch release
- Perform functional configuration work, including:
- Purchasing Business Unit setup
- Requisition setup and processing
- Procurement options and PO defaults
- Vendor setup and maintenance
- Item categories and purchasing attributes
- Approval workflow and routing
- Strategic sourcing and contract management
- Purchase orders and receiving
- Inventory Business Unit and item setup
- ChartField and accounting configuration
- Budget checking (Commitment Control)
- Integration with AP, Inventory, eProcurement, Contracts, and Receiving
- CAPPS USAS T-Code configuration
- CAPPS System Codes configuration
- Configuration and support for requisitions, purchasing, contracts, and inventory modules
- Support for requisitions, sourcing, contracts, purchase orders, receiving, and inventory transactions
- Support for vendor, contract, and procurement processes
- Apply technical skills for applicable tools, including:
- Application Designer understanding (records, fields, pages, components)
- SQR and BI Publisher report customization
- SQL proficiency
- Understanding of PeopleSoft security, including State of Texas multitenancy requirements
- Planning, designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and maintaining IT security measures to safeguard system information
- Monitor CAPPS PO batch jobs, including:
- Tracking job schedules
- Monitoring job execution
- Detecting and responding to failures
- Validating output
- Managing dependencies
- Performance tuning
- Documentation
- Communication and escalation
- Ensuring compliance when schedules must be altered
- Maintain tools and environment knowledge, including:
- PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager) and Change Assistant
- Fluid UI changes and page navigation
- Lifecycle management and selective adoption
- Elasticsearch/Search Framework
- Data migration and compare reports
- Perform cross-functional collaboration, including:
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting
- Requirements gathering for break/fix or system enhancements
- Documentation and testing (UAT, regression testing)
- Incident management in systems such as ServiceNow and BOSSDesk, keeping multiple systems synchronized with timely updates
- Communication with policy personnel, analysts, 100+ agencies, and the Managed Services Tier 3 vendor
- Understand and account for interdependence on legacy systems such as USAS, TINS, and others.
- Provide structured cross-training to support junior analyst capability growth.
- Provide comprehensive training and support to agency personnel based on established requests and organizational requirements.
- Support project-level coordination and participation, including:
- Expansions that include additional module implementations or enhancements for agencies
- Interdependence on legacy systems
- Cyclic processes such as fiscal year-end
- State of Texas legislative changes, federal mandates, and third-party integrations
- Following CPA processes, policies, and procedures within project scope and on schedule
- Coordinate Fiscal Year-End activities, including:
- Planning, scheduling, and communication
- Reconciliations and verifications
- System configurations and maintenance
- Support the CAPPS Financials functional design phase, including:
- Creating and reviewing Functional Design Documents (FDDs)
- Performing functional configuration system changes
- Working with delivered PeopleSoft features such as Page and Field Configurator, Drop Zones, Event Mapping, Page Composer, and others
- Provide Level 2 Service Desk support, including complex ticket handling, advanced troubleshooting, documentation, and basic system configuration in coordination with the Managed Services vendor responsible for Tier 3 work.
- Ensure digital products and content meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards and remediate accessibility issues as needed.
- Work under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performing complicated tasks while following established processes and procedures.
- Ensure accurate data production, enforce security including multitenancy, maintain system efficiency, and uphold applicable policies.
- Perform work in accordance with ITIL principles and practices for ITSM and ITAM.
- Participate in CPA s Major Incident Management (MIM) process for P1 and P2 incidents.
- Participate in Disaster Recovery and Upgrade Testing.
- Make presentations at CAPPS User Groups and the CAPPS Steering Committee as requested.
- Participate in annual SOC-1 attestation audits and ensure changes consider security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
- Perform other related work as assigned.
Minimum Requirements (Required)
Minimum Experience Required in All Areas Below
Candidates must meet or exceed all stated requirements.
- 10 Years: Extensive knowledge and understanding of State of Texas applicable policies.
- 10 Years: Extensive technical skillsets with App Designer, Integration Broker, assorted SQR/SQL, BI Publisher, SAP Business Objects, and related tools to support functional responsibilities.
- 10 Years: Extensive knowledge and experience performing system configuration changes.
- 10 Years: Experience working with the Purchasing (PO) core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 8 Years: Extensive knowledge supporting and providing oversight with batch jobs, including Run My Jobs (RMJ).
- 8 Years: Extensive knowledge of security best practices, NIST standards, and multitenancy applicability for a statewide ERP instance.
- 8 Years: Extensive Texas public sector experience, directly working for or supporting a large network of 30 or more Texas state government agencies.
- 8 Years: Extensive experience creating and managing a strategic roadmap by combining strong planning skills, functional insight, and effective cross-functional communication.
- 8 Years: Extensive familiarity with support tools such as PUM, Fluid, and Elastic Search.
- 8 Years: Experience performing functional project management activities in support of CPA s CAPPS program.
- 8 Years: Experience providing Tier 2 Service Desk support for a large network of 30 or more agencies with a Managed Services vendor providing Tier 3.
- 8 Years: Experience participating in Disaster Recovery exercises.
- 8 Years: Experience preparing and presenting executive-level presentations.
- 8 Years: Experience gathering and presenting applicable data in support of a variety of audits and open records requests.
- 8 Years: Extensive experience supporting the CAPPS Financials tower in PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 8 Years: Experience developing requirements, analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and implementing components of two or more of CPA s statewide systems: CAPPS, TINS, SPA, and USAS.
- 8 Years: Experience planning and coordinating the Fiscal Year Process at a statewide level.
- 6 Years: Experience supporting Priority 1 and Priority 2 incidents in coordination with the Major Incident Management (MIM) process.
- 6 Years: Experience interpreting contractual language and integrating it into daily workflows, while consistently holding vendors accountable to contractual requirements.
- 6 Years: Experience preparing WCAG 2.1-compliant materials for distribution.
- 5 Years: Experience working with the CAPPS Financials Purchasing module.
- 3 Years: Knowledge of ITIL principles and practices for IT service management and IT asset management.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10 Years: Experience working with the Asset Management (AM) core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 10 Years: Experience working with the General Ledger core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 10 Years: Experience working with the Accounts Payable core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 10 Years: Experience working with the Inventory non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 6 Years: Experience working with the Accounts Receivable/Billing non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 6 Years: Experience working with the Project Costing non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 6 Years: Experience working with the Strategic Sourcing non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.
- 6 Years: Experience working with the Travel & Expense non-core module of PeopleSoft FSCM version 9.2.