WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career! 

JOB SUMMARY
This position works with departments across UT Southwestern and is responsible for subject matter and technical expertise for designing, implementing, and supporting solutions across PS HCM, with a focus on HR employee job and position data, Commitment Accounting, and Manager Self Service (MSS). Additionally, this position will serve as the Commitment Accounting lead responsible for full integration with the Financials system (PeopleSoft FSCM) and a complete understanding of basic accounting principles and compliance requirements for Texas State Higher Education Institutions.

Primary Job Duties
1.    Analyze business systems and procedures to produce complete end-to-end solution designs to enhance efficiency and maintain data integrity.
2.    Provide functional design, and on-going support, for Ancillary Systems applications.
3.    Create clear, concise functional and technical requirements/specifications, build and test plan documentation and applicable test scripts. Develop, deploy, and manage integrations, interfaces, queries, and reports.
4.    Ability to work closely with the technical team to translate complex functional specifications into technical solutions and create test cases and regression scenarios.
5.     Leverage system functionality and analytics to provide customers with the ability to make data driven solutions.
6.    Communicate regularly with all levels of the organization for successful delivery of user and business needs.
7.    Work closely with the Training and Communication team to ensure that impacted users understand and can successfully incorporate the solution and changes into their operations.
8.    Provide after-hours and on-call support to all high level, escalated Service Desk issues.
9.    Maintain status of existing integrations by monitoring errors, performing root cause analysis, and implementing fixes or precautionary enhancements. This role calls for a customer-centric focus that always seeks to educate and resolve that builds confidence in the integrity and effectiveness of the system.
10.    Work with cross-functional teams to effectively engage with business partners and solution vendors to build and convey compelling value propositions.
11.    Provide subject matter expertise and analysis for all audits from State, Grant, and Internal Audit.
12.    Provide analysis and improvement recommendations for Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS) processing.
13.    Provide data and processes validation for Ancillary Applications.

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Required

• Education
  Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or other related fields 
   

• Experience
  5 years business systems and/or project experience with exposure to systems or project development and testing, installation, and training 
  May consider additional years of related experience in lieu of degree. 
   

JOB DUTIES

• Manages projects and serves as primary customer contact. Defines and maintains project plan and schedules. Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Provides regular project status reports to customer and internal management. Assists business analysts of lower grade to coordinate projects.
• Collects, interprets and documents specifications required to develop new and revise existing software applications. Develops and implements operational plans for new and existing business computer applications. Participates in development of project proposals for customers.
• Coordinates testing of new applications and changes to existing applications to ensure integrity and quality of data while providing and/or assisting in training of system users. Defines and develops test scenarios. Documents and tracks status of application errors and related issues in problem log. Assist programmers and business analysts of lower grade in analyzing and resolving problems.
• Compiles complete, concise, and comprehensive policies and operation procedures to assist in communicating issues to applicable management staff.
• Develops new system administrative procedures required utilizing new functionality resulting from system changes.
• Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improve operational processing and productivity.
• Monitors development of specifications and establishes priorities for accomplishing design and testing of various projects.
• Reviews, develops, recommends, and implements activities, programs or functions as assigned.
• Maintains and tracks accounts assigned to projects or programs. Develops and maintains project plans. Provides project status reports.
• Records time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements.
• May supervise lower level analysts.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT

Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 117.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired and to continue to be employed in the position.

EEO
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.