Product Owner – PeopleSoft Accounts Payable, & eProcurement

Purpose: Support and optimize Procure-to-Pay in PeopleSoft Financials by serving as the functional expert for PeopleSoft Procurement/Purchasing and Accounts Payable.

Responsibilities

• Act as the functional subject-matter expert for PeopleSoft Procurement/Purchasing and Accounts Payable.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into functional designs, system configurations, and enhancement recommendations.
• Support end-to-end procure-to-pay processes across requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, vouchers, payments, supplier management, and accounting.
• Configure and maintain PeopleSoft Procurement and AP components, including:
  • Business units and suppliers
  • Purchase order controls
  • Voucher processing rules
  • Payment terms and approval workflows
  • Accounting distributions
• Monitor and resolve functional exceptions across procurement, voucher, payment, accounting, and interfaces.
• Validate accounting entries and reconcile Procurement and AP activity with the PeopleSoft GL.
• Support month-end and year-end close activities, including accruals, reconciliation, journal review, and issue resolution.
• Partner with technical teams to create functional specifications for:
  • Integrations
  • Reports
  • Conversions
  • Interfaces
  • System enhancements
• Lead and support testing, including:
  • Test planning
  • Test-case development
  • User acceptance testing
  • Defect resolution
  • Deployment support
• Create and maintain process documentation, functional specifications, user guides, and training materials.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, automation, data quality, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Significant functional experience supporting PeopleSoft Procurement/Purchasing and Accounts Payable.
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes including requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, receiving, supplier management, and matching.
• Strong knowledge of AP processes including voucher entry, matching, payment processing, payment exceptions, adjustments, and accounting.
• Demonstrated understanding of data flow and integration between Procurement, AP, and GL.
• Experience with PeopleSoft accounting entry generation, journal processing, GL interfaces, and reconciliation.
• Experience gathering requirements and preparing functional specifications for technical teams.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience supporting system testing, production deployments, and post-implementation support.

PeopleSoft EProcurement, AP & GL Data Flow Knowledge

• Procurement begins with requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, and receiving.
• Purchase orders and receipts provide purchasing and receiving information used during voucher processing.
• AP vouchers are created through online entry, interfaces, purchase-order matching, or other approved processes.
• AP manages supplier invoices, payments, payment cancellations, adjustments, withholding, and voucher lifecycle activities.
• Accounting entries are generated based on configured accounting rules, ChartFields, distribution lines, and business-unit controls.
• Accounting entries and journals are transmitted to PeopleSoft GL for validation, posting, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Ensure transaction data and accounting balances are accurate, complete, and reconcilable across Procurement, AP, and GL.

Technologies

• PeopleSoft Financials
• PeopleSoft Procurement/Purchasing
• PeopleSoft Accounts Payable
• PeopleSoft GL
• PeopleSoft Integration Broker
• APIs
• PeopleSoft Query

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PeopleSoft Financials implementations, upgrades, or major enhancement initiatives.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft Integration Broker, APIs, file-based interfaces, and middleware integrations.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Query, reporting tools, and data analysis.
• Knowledge of AP and Procurement integration points with related modules, including Asset Management, Expenses, Inventory, Billing, and Accounts Receivable, where applicable.
• Experience working in a large, multi-business-unit financial environment.

Benefits

• Options for healthcare coverage
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vacation
• Sick
• Holiday pay

• Location: Birmingham, AL (onsite)
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business, or related field
• Supervisory Responsibility: No
• Budget Responsibility: No
• Licenses & Certifications: None required