Senior PeopleSoft HCM Payroll Functional Consultant

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., * 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.

Peoplesoft, Consulting, Business Solutions, Consulting, Technical/Engineering Design, Requirements Management, Reconciliation, Peoplesoft, Sales/Support Engineering (SE), Test Design, Specialization: PeopleSoft Payroll for North America, Time and Labor, FLSA Regular/Blended Rates, and ADP Integration, * 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., * 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.