Higher Education Fund Accountant / PeopleSoft Financials SME

Job Title / Role Name

Higher Education Fund Accountant / PeopleSoft Financials Accounting SME

Work Location (onsite/hybrid/remote)

Remote acceptable; local to Tallahassee, FL preferred. Must be able to support Eastern Time business hours.

Duration

Immediate need; duration TBD based on transition, reconciliation, and stabilization support needs.

Project Description or Key Responsibilities

Client has an immediate and sensitive need for a hybrid accounting and ERP finance resource to support financial operations during the transition from PeopleSoft to Workday.

This role should be recruited as an accountant / fund accounting SME first, with PeopleSoft Financials experience as a strong preference.

The resource must be able to perform hands-on financial reporting, reconciliation, journal processing, cash reconciliation, and funds accounting support while working with finance, grants, accounting, and ERP project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Support financial reporting and reconciliation activities across accounting and finance operations.

Perform journal processing, journal review, correction support, and related general ledger accounting activities.

Assist with cash reconciliation, account balancing, transaction research, and discrepancy resolution.

Support fund accounting activities, including analysis of funds, chartfields, accounts, departments, projects, grants, transactions, and balances.

Research and resolve accounting issues across PeopleSoft legacy data, Workday transition outputs, and business-owned reconciliation files.

Partner with finance, grants, accounting, and ERP project teams to support PeopleSoft-to-Workday transition and stabilization activities.

Validate financial data, reporting outputs, journal activity, fund balances, and reconciliation results.

Document issues, findings, recommended corrections, and status updates clearly for business and project stakeholders.

Provide hands-on accounting support where business users need immediate operational assistance during transition activities.

Required Experience

Strong accounting background with hands-on experience in financial reporting, reconciliations, journal processing, and general ledger operations.

Experience performing cash reconciliation, account analysis, balance validation, and financial discrepancy resolution.

Knowledge of fund accounting, preferably in higher education, government, public sector, nonprofit, or grants accounting environments.

Ability to work directly with accounting and finance users to understand issues, research transactions, and recommend corrective actions.

Experience working in ERP-based accounting environments; PeopleSoft Financials experience is strongly preferred.

Strong analytical, reconciliation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, sensitive project environment with urgent business needs.

Clear communication skills with finance, accounting, grants, and ERP project stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

Higher education accounting experience.

PeopleSoft Financials experience, especially GL, Grants, Project Costing, Commitment Control, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, or related FSCM modules.

Experience as a PeopleSoft Financials Functional Consultant, PeopleSoft Grants Consultant, Fund Accountant, Grants Accountant, or ERP Accounting SME.

Workday Financials experience or prior support of a PeopleSoft-to-Workday transition.

Sponsored programs, grants accounting, project costing, cost share, budget checking, drawdown, billing, or fund balance reconciliation experience.

Prior ERP transition, data validation, financial cleanup, reconciliation, go-live, or stabilization support experience.

Local to Tallahassee, FL if possible.

Deliverables Expected

Completed financial reconciliations with supporting documentation.

Journal processing support, journal review, and documented correction recommendations.

Cash reconciliation support and documented findings.

Fund accounting analysis, transaction research, and discrepancy resolution.

Validated financial reporting outputs, balances, journals, and reconciliation results.

Clear documentation of open issues, corrections, recommended next steps, and stakeholder follow-up items.

Coordination notes and status updates for finance, grants, accounting, and ERP transition stakeholders.

Interview Process (rounds, type - phone/video/in-person)

TBD – likely video interview due to urgency and remote flexibility

Expected Start Date

ASAP / immediate

Other Relevant Notes

Recruit this as a Higher Education Fund Accountant / PeopleSoft Financials Accounting SME, not as a pure PeopleSoft consultant.

The best-fit candidate is an accountant or financial reconciliation SME who has worked in PeopleSoft Financials and can support journals, reconciliations, cash, fund accounting, and financial reporting during a PeopleSoft-to-Workday transition.

Searchable profile terms: Fund Accountant, Grants Accountant, Higher Education Accountant, PeopleSoft Financials Consultant, PeopleSoft Grants Accounting, PeopleSoft GL, Commitment Control, Project Costing, ERP Accounting SME, Workday Financials transition support.