Peoplesoft Financials Application Specialist

Requisition ID: 155785 Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. **The Team** The GFT Core Accounting team architects and deploys the General Ledger ‘GL’ solutions and Payment Operations technologies across Global Finance. **The Role** The Application Specialist will be responsible for developing and supporting the PeopleSoft GL modules along with the integration of all interfaces with the GL. **Some of the Key Accountabilities include**: - Understand the high-level business needs surrounding the Peoplesoft Financials module, gathering information, analyzing processes, assessing impacts, documenting detailed business requirements, creating configuration and design documents to support testing, go live/production support and subsequent hand over of knowledge. - Ensure that any IT solutions designed, configured, developed and implemented satisfy the business requirements and manage traceability of requirements through design, configuration, development, and testing. - Work with the Finance department and other stakeholders to gather information utilizing a variety of techniques such as interviews, work sessions, storyboarding, and prototyping. - Analyze, document, and communicate business requirements and processes. - Understand project scope, project goals, product functionality, and desired features. - Evaluate customer needs/issues, analyze business processes, assist in evaluating alternatives, and determine appropriate solutions with technical staff. - Develop and document business requirements from user perspectives. - Ensure that business requirements are properly translated and satisfied in functional requirements and design. Assist with system design and data migration reviews as needed. - Participate in testing, testing reviews and analysis of testing results. Assist with troubleshooting and providing recommendations. - Effectively partner with Finance and other IT personnel to deliver solutions. - Follow standard software implementation best practices relative to analysis, configuration, development and testing. - Provide ad-hoc reporting, data gathering, and feasibility studies to support project business justification as required for management review. - Suggest improvements or enhancements to processes and systems in order to increase customer satisfaction or improve productivity **What You Will Bring to Succeed**: - Minimum of 2-4 years PeopleSoft experience with a strong focus on any of the following: GL, AP, AM or AR PeopleSoft Finance modules - Minimum of 2-3 full life cycle implementations - Good understanding of PeopleSoft Architecture, setup tables and processes - Ability to write functional requirements, use cases, and other analysis/design artifacts effectively (storyboards, screen prototypes, etc.) - Excellent communication and presentation skills (written/verbal) - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - Self-directed - works effectively both independently and in a team environment - Ability to effectively work on multiple tasks - Well organized, dependable, punctual, strong work ethic - Fast learner and able to work to deadlines. - Ability to pay close attention to details **The Workplace**: - We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work - We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success - You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world - We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning - We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results - We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), and generous vacation **Scotiaban**k** **Is this Role not the Exact fit?** Sign up to stay in touch; we’ll let you know when we have new positions on the team. Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto || Canada : Ontario : Ottawa Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.