ERP Module Lead – General Ledger

University of Missouri - Columbia; Columbia Township (MO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Missouri - Columbia seeks an ERP Module Lead to serve as the business lead for General Ledger and financial accounting within a cloud ERP deployment. You will coordinate with the System Implementer and campus stakeholders to validate designs, conduct testing, and ensure a unified, scalable Chart of Accounts and accounting structures across four campuses and the health system.

Responsibilities include documenting requirements, reviewing designs, preparing data, and guiding

Qualifications

• Minimum: a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience with at least 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Preferred: experience in general ledger, financial accounting, or controller’s office operations in higher education or similarly complex environments.
• Familiarity with Chart of Accounts design, financial close, journal processing, and accounting governance.
• Knowledge of GAAP and GASB reporting standards, fund accounting, and internal control frameworks.
• Experience with system implementations or conversions, including data mapping, integrations, and reconciliation between enterprise systems.
• Experience gathering and documenting business requirements, process flows, test planning, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Financials or cloud-based ERP platforms.
• Ability to drive change management, develop training materials, and build consensus across decentralized units.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary institutional lead for General Ledger and financial accounting processes within the cloud ERP implementation.
• Coordinate with the System Implementer and internal project team to plan work, resolve questions, and deliverables.
• Explain policies, practices, pain points, controls, and institutional requirements to the implementation team.
• Engage accounting, finance, reporting, grants, payroll, and other stakeholders across all campuses and the health system.
• Facilitate input on future-state processes, Chart of Accounts, and close activities.
• Review designs to ensure alignment with institutional requirements and identify gaps or impacts.
• Own client-side tasks including documenting requirements, reviewing designs, preparing data, validating items, and tracking open items.
• Lead testing, document results, and coordinate defect resolution with business users.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

GASB knowledge

Change management

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

PeopleSoft Financials

Cloud-based ERP platforms

Job description

Hiring Department

ERP Project

Job Description

This position serves as the institution’s business lead for GeneralLedger and financial accounting in the cloud ERP implementation,including the Chart of Accounts, accounting structures, journalprocessing, and period close. The role will represent institutionalrequirements, coordinate stakeholders across all four campuses andthe health system, review and validate designs, lead testing, andprepare the organization for adoption. It will work closely withpeer ERP module leads under the same manager to support integrated,end-to-end financial processes. Because the General Ledger andChart of Accounts underpin every other financial module, theposition will partner with the module leads for financialstatements, payroll accounting, grants, receivables, businessassets and projects, and banking and settlements to ensureaccounting structures, integrations, and reporting align across theERP.

General Ledger Implementation and Functional Leadership

• Serve as the primary institutional point of contact for GeneralLedger and financial accounting processes, including the Chart ofAccounts, accounting structures, journal processing, and periodclose.
• Partner day to day with the System Implementer (SI) and internalproject team to plan work, resolve questions, completedeliverables, and keep module activities moving.
• Explain current policies, business practices, pain points,controls, and institutional requirements to the implementationteam.
• Identify and engage the appropriate representatives fromaccounting, finance, reporting, grants, payroll, and other impactedareas across all four campuses and the health system.
• Coordinate business input and facilitate timely decisions onfuture-state processes, Chart of Accounts, accounting structures,close, and journal processing.
• Review proposed process and system designs to confirm theyreflect institutional requirements and identify gaps or unintendedimpacts.
• Own and execute assigned client-side tasks and deliverables,including documenting requirements, reviewing design materials,preparing data or decisions, completing validation activities, andfollowing through on open items.

Configuration Validation, Testing, and Sign-Off

• Work directly with the SI to review and validate configuration,integrations, reports, conversions, and security that affectfinancial accounting; document feedback and drive requiredfollow-up to closure.
• Prepare for and execute testing, coordinate participation frombusiness users, document results and defects, retest corrections,and confirm that critical issues are resolved.
• Facilitate formal approval with the appropriate business owners,or provide sign-off when serving as the accountable businessowner.
• Support training, change readiness, and transition activities byhelping the institution prepare for new processes andresponsibilities.

Project Coordination and Cross-Module Alignment

• Maintain visibility into module progress by tracking tasks,decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, and upcomingmilestones.
• Provide regular, concise status updates to project leadership,including accomplishments, planned work, decisions needed, risks,issues, and areas requiring escalation.
• Communicate decisions, risks, issues, and organizational impactsto affected stakeholders and escalated matters that requireleadership action.
• Partner with peer ERP module leads to align the Chart ofAccounts, accounting structures, and integrations with subledger,payroll, grants, and reporting designs.

Shift

M-F 8:00AM to 5:00PM

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education andexperience and at least 3 years of experience from which comparableknowledge and skills can be acquired is necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in general ledger, financial accounting, orcontroller’s office operations in higher education, an academicmedical center, or a comparably complex organization.
• Experience with Chart of Accounts design or redesign, financialclose, journal processing, and accounting governance.
• Working knowledge of GAAP and GASB reporting standards, fundaccounting, and internal control frameworks.
• Experience with system implementation or conversion projects,including integrations, data mapping, and reconciliation betweenenterprise systems.
• Experience gathering and documenting business requirements andprocess flows, test planning and user acceptance testing.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Financials or cloud-based ERPplatforms.
• Experience supporting change management, developing trainingmaterials, and building consensus on standardized processes acrossdecentralized units or multiple campuses.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, manage complexcross-functional work, and translate business needs betweenaccounting, finance, technical teams, the system implementer, andcampus stakeholders.

Anticipated Hiring Range

Salary Range: $80,000 to $100,000, commensurate withexperience

Grade: GGS-11

University Title: ERP Module Lead

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Sponsorship Information

Employment visa sponsorship is not available for thisposition.

Community Information

Columbia offers small-town friendliness with big city features anda high quality of life for people of all ages and interests.Founded on education and known as an ideal college town, itslocation also makes it an attractive spot for businesses andtravelers. Located on Interstate 70 and U.S. Highway 63, Columbiais right in the middle of the state and the nation. Just a couplehours’ drive from St. Louis and Kansas City, Columbia is BooneCounty’s largest population center offering big-city culture,activities, and resources with a low cost of living. Columbia ishome to a variety of restaurants and entertainment venues and hostsmore than a dozen festivals each year. If you want to grow yourcareer, continue your education, raise a family, and retire,Columbia is a good place to be!

Benefit Eligibility

This position is eligible for University benefits. As part of yourtotal compensation, the University offers a comprehensive benefitspackage, including medical, dental and vision plans, retirement,paid time off, short- and long-term disability, paid parentalleave, paid caregiver leave, and educational fee discounts for allfour UM System campuses. For additional information on Universitybenefits, please visit the Faculty & Staff Benefits website at https://www.umsystem.edu/departments-staff/human-resources/benefits-retirement

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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