IT Financial Systems Administrator

Overview & Purpose

About the Pay

Note: The salary range listed ($90,292 - $108,388) reflects the TARGET HIRING RANGE only and does not represent the full employee pay range for this position.

About Central Arizona Project

Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336-mile system that supplies Colorado River water to central and southern Arizona. More than 6 million people rely on this supply. CAP employs nearly 500 people who enjoy a team-oriented and safety-focused work culture. The close community of a small company is driven to help fulfill our extremely valuable mission.

Hear what our employees are saying about working for CAP.

Compensation & Benefits Package includes:

- Competitive Salaries

- Arizona State Retirement System - Pension

- 401(k)

- Medical, Dental and Vision

- Life insurance, LTD, Short-term disability

- 4-10 (Mon-Thur) work schedule

- Option for part-time remote work

- Paid training & tuition reimbursement

- 9 paid holidays

- Paid vacation & sick time

- Wellness programs

- No benefits waiting period

- Relocation benefits

- Significant training and development opportunities

- Public Student Loan Forgiveness eligible employer

About the Responsibilities

As an IT Financial Systems Administrator, you would provide functional support, subject matter expertise and end user support for critical business functions across CAP’s financial systems. Perform problem determination for issues in CAP financial systems. Resolve functional problems and coordinates work with technical staff and external consultants to resolve technical issues. Provide training to clients and communication to management on critical functional issues. Coordinate user testing after upgrades and patching. Maintain contact with customers, vendors, and users’ groups to understand trends and assist CAP in making strategic decisions. Determine job priorities based on criticality and business need. Assist other roles within IT in furthering environment design enhancements and upgrades.

Some of the duties include:

1. Application Administration: Provides functional administration support for CAP’s Financial systems. Manage and prioritize all enterprise system problems and changes originating from the IT Computer Support Desk and Change Review Committee. Resolve functional issues and obtain assistance, if necessary, from support, outside consultants, or internal technical staff. Open and manage service requests with the Computer Support desk. Work with technical systems administrators, super users, and database administrators to coordinate the application and testing of upgrades or patches. Communicate the status of open problems and changes to clients and management. Participate in applicable meetings and discussions supporting enterprise system issues. Provide status of open issues and client requests as requested.

2. Subject Matter Expert: Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) in the areas of Financial Systems, including Human Resources (HR), General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Fixed Assets (FA). Provides directions to departmental super users on application configurations and setups or modifications to existing configurations and setups. Assist the IT technical staff with the required form or report modifications. Provide directions to super users with any requests for ad-hoc queries and any data conversions. Assist super users with documentation of functional configurations.

3. Testing: Work with technical staff and super users to develop test plans, implement test plans, move fixes from test to production environment, and provide post-installation support. Manage the testing of upgrades or patches and report the status on a periodic basis.

4. Requirements Gathering: Partner with the user community to develop requirements for major enhancements, additional functionality, or changes necessary to other Enterprise systems. Lead major projects across divisional lines to accomplish the defined goals. Create and maintain detailed project plans to keep the project within scope and on time. Locate and bring outside resources into the project when necessary.

5. Training: Perform any required training of super users on the functions of the applicable application. Work with department super users to create technical documentation to assist in training. Must maintain confidentiality of information obtained during the course of work.

About the Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in related field. Four additional years of experience required if no bachelor’s degree.

- A minimum of 7 years’ experience in a similar role.

- 5+ Years of Accounting/Finance experience in the areas of Payroll, General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and/or Fixed Assets (FA).

- Experience with generally accepted accounting principles and the financial systems in which to implement these.

- Must be able to translate business process requirements into technical specifications and help the finance and accounting community to implement or alter business processes to fit the capabilities of the financial system.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of experience working with CAP’s current suite of financial applications Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and/or Orbit Analytics.

- Systems Administration experience

If you are experienced and highly skilled in the responsibilities of this job (mentioned above), have a team-focused positive approach to work, and are looking for a rewarding career with a stable organization in the Phoenix area, then we encourage you to apply online today! Your water, your future.