PeopleSoft Analyst

New Wave People•Manhattan, NY

3d•Remote

About The Position

Seeking a senior consultant and hands-on technical expert in PeopleSoft application security administration, access governance, security auditing, and user access management. The role supports PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, and PeopleTools across production and non-production environments. The analyst will independently review and resolve complex security issues, strengthen access controls, protect sensitive employee and payroll data, support audits, improve security reporting, and proactively identify and remediate security risks. The position involves managing user profiles, roles, permission lists, row-level security, component and page access, process security, and role-based access control. It also covers user lifecycle management, Query Manager and query access controls, PII protection, access reviews and recertification, security monitoring and reporting, security auditing, access request workflows, troubleshooting, and technical documentation. The analyst collaborates with PeopleSoft functional teams, developers, DBAs, internal auditors, and cybersecurity teams. This is a remote, Monday–Friday position with no holiday work, overtime, or travel. A bachelor’s degree is required. Salary is commensurate with the scope of work and job experience.

Requirements

Extensive hands-on experience in PeopleSoft application security administration, access governance, security auditing, and user access management.
Strong technical knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, PeopleTools, and enterprise security controls.
Experience with PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, permission lists, row-level security, component and page access, process security, and RBAC.
Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft security architecture, security tables, role assignments, permission-list configuration, user access provisioning, and security configuration across environments.
Experience managing access for employees, contractors, vendors, retirees, and terminated users based on HR data and approved access requests.
Extensive knowledge of PeopleSoft Query Manager, public and private queries, Query Access Groups, query trees, permission lists, and sensitive-data access controls.
Experience securing PII, employee records, payroll data, and other confidential information.
Experience with access reviews, recertification, manager approvals, segregation-of-duties reviews, privileged access assessments, audit evidence collection, and remediation.
Ability to develop security reports, monitor access and configuration changes, investigate unauthorized access, identify control gaps, and automate recurring monitoring.
Experience reviewing PeopleSoft security tables and access records, validating user and role assignments, and coordinating database access audits.
Experience managing security across production, development, test, and staging environments.
Ability to troubleshoot complex PeopleSoft authorization and access issues independently; strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to document procedures and findings and collaborate effectively with PeopleSoft functional teams, developers, DBAs, internal auditors, and cybersecurity teams.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

Experience reviewing public queries and identifying unauthorized exposure of sensitive information.
Knowledge of Oracle Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA).
Experience supporting large enterprise PeopleSoft environments with complex security requirements.
Experience with PeopleTools 8.59 or later, PeopleSoft security tables, SQL, Oracle database auditing, security automation, and enterprise access governance.

Responsibilities

Manage PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, permission lists, row-level security, component and page access, process security, and role-based access control.
Administer PeopleSoft security architecture, security tables, role assignments, user access provisioning, and security configurations across production and non-production environments.
Manage employee, contractor, vendor, retiree, and terminated-user access using HR job data, effective dates, employment status, and approved access requests; identify and resolve inappropriate or outdated access.
Review PeopleSoft queries and query access controls, including public and private queries, Query Access Groups, query trees, and permission lists; identify unauthorized exposure of sensitive information.
Protect PII, employee records, payroll data, and other confidential information through appropriate access controls.
Perform periodic access reviews, user and role recertification, manager approvals, segregation-of-duties reviews, and privileged access assessments; collect audit evidence and remediate security findings.
Develop and maintain security reports, monitor changes to user access and security configurations, investigate unauthorized access, identify control gaps, and automate recurring monitoring activities.
Review PeopleSoft security tables and access records, analyze security changes, validate user and role assignments, and coordinate with DBAs to audit access to sensitive database tables.
Manage security across production, development, test, and staging environments; validate configurations and protect sensitive production data in non-production environments.
Review and improve access request workflows, approval processes, manager access, employee timesheet access, and security-related procedures; recommend automation and standardization improvements.
Independently investigate complex access issues involving roles, permission lists, query access, row-level security, user profiles, and application authorization.
Document security procedures, audit findings, access control reviews, and remediation plans, and collaborate with functional teams, developers, DBAs, auditors, and cybersecurity teams.