We are looking for an experienced PeopleSoft HCM Functional Consultant with strong expertise in Payroll and Benefits Administration to join our HCM team. The ideal candidate should have 8+ years of relevant PeopleSoft HCM experience, with hands-on experience in at least 2 PeopleSoft HCM implementation projects and 3 production support projects.
The consultant will be responsible for requirements gathering, functional analysis, configuration, testing, issue resolution, production support, and stakeholder management across PeopleSoft HCM Payroll and Benefits modules.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into PeopleSoft HCM functional solutions.
• Conduct requirement gathering, workshops, fit-gap analysis and solution design.
• Configure and support PeopleSoft HCM modules based on business requirements.
• Prepare functional specifications, configuration documents, test scenarios and process documentation.
• Work closely with technical teams for customizations, integrations and reports.
• Participate in SIT, UAT, regression testing and defect resolution.
• Provide production support and root-cause analysis for critical issues.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders, offshore/onshore teams and technical teams.
• Ensure solutions follow PeopleSoft HCM best practices and implementation standards.
• Strong functional experience in PeopleSoft Payroll for North America (PNA).
• Experience with payroll setup, processing and validation.
• Understanding of payroll calculation, payroll processes and payroll reconciliation.
• Experience handling payroll defects, production issues and business queries.
• Knowledge of payroll elements, earnings, deductions, taxes and pay groups.
• Experience supporting payroll interfaces and downstream/upstream integrations.
• Experience with payroll year-end activities and statutory requirements is preferred.
• Ability to analyze payroll calculation and processing issues and provide functional solutions.
• Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft Benefits Administration / Base Benefits.
• Experience with benefit plans, programs, eligibility rules and enrollment.
• Experience handling benefit events and life-event processing.
• Knowledge of benefit deductions and payroll integration.
• Experience troubleshooting Benefits Administration issues.
• Support benefits-related testing, configuration and production issues.
The candidate should have successfully participated in at least 2 PeopleSoft HCM implementation projects, preferably involving:
• PeopleSoft HCM implementation
• Payroll implementation
• Benefits implementation
• Requirement gathering
• Fit-gap analysis
• Functional design
• Configuration
• SIT/UAT
• Data validation
• Go-live and hypercare support
The candidate should have experience in at least 3 PeopleSoft HCM production support projects, including:
• Incident management
• Problem management
• Root-cause analysis
• Production issue resolution
• Payroll issue analysis
• Benefits issue resolution
• SLA management
• Business-user support
• Enhancement requests
• Release/regression testing
• PeopleSoft HCM
• PeopleSoft HCM 9.2
• PeopleSoft Payroll
• Payroll for North America (PNA)
• PeopleSoft Benefits Administration
• Base Benefits
• Payroll Processing
• Payroll Calculation
• Payroll Reconciliation
• Benefits Enrollment
• Benefits Eligibility
• Requirement Gathering
• Fit-Gap Analysis
• Functional Configuration
• Functional Specifications
• SIT / UAT
• Production Support
• Defect Management
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• PeopleSoft Time and Labor
• PeopleSoft Absence Management
• PeopleSoft Core HR / Workforce Administration
• PeopleSoft Integration knowledge
• PeopleTools awareness
• PeopleCode understanding
• SQR knowledge
• Integration Broker knowledge
• Payroll interfaces
• North American payroll experience
• Experience working with global stakeholders
• 8+ years of relevant PeopleSoft HCM Functional experience
• Strong experience in PeopleSoft Payroll and Benefits
• Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Payroll for North America (PNA)
• Minimum 2 PeopleSoft HCM implementation projects
• Minimum 3 PeopleSoft HCM production support projects
• Strong functional configuration and troubleshooting experience
• Experience with SIT/UAT and production support
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
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