PeopleSoft Security Analyst-REMOTE

Aries Solutions Intl Inc is seeking a Senior PeopleSoft Security Analyst to administer and strengthen PeopleSoft security controls across enterprise environments. The role focuses on access governance, security auditing, protection of sensitive data, security monitoring, and resolving complex access issues.

Responsibilities:

• Experience managing employee, contractor, vendor, retiree, and terminated-user access based on HR job data, effective dates, employment status, and approved access requests. Ability to identify and resolve inappropriate or outdated access
• Extensive knowledge of PeopleSoft Query Manager, public and private queries, Query Access Groups (QAG), query trees, permission lists, and controls governing access to sensitive data. Experience reviewing public queries and identifying unauthorized exposure of sensitive information is highly desirable
• Experience securing access to personally identifiable information (PII), employee records, payroll data, and other confidential information through appropriate roles, permission lists, row-level security, and database access controls
• Experience performing periodic access reviews, user and role recertification, manager approvals, segregation-of-duties reviews, privileged access assessments, audit evidence collection, and remediation of security findings
• Ability to develop and maintain security reports, monitor changes to user access and security configurations, investigate unauthorized access, identify control gaps, and automate recurring security monitoring activities
• Experience reviewing PeopleSoft security tables and access records, analyzing security changes, validating user and role assignments, and coordinating with database administrators to audit access to sensitive database tables. Knowledge of Oracle Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) is preferred
• Experience managing security across production, development, test, and staging environments. Ability to validate security configurations, identify inappropriate access, and ensure sensitive production data is appropriately protected in non-production environments
• Experience reviewing and improving access request workflows, approval processes, manager access, employee timesheet access, and security-related operational procedures. Ability to identify process gaps and recommend automation and standardization improvements
• Ability to independently investigate complex PeopleSoft access issues involving roles, permission lists, query access, row-level security, user profiles, and application authorization
• Ability to document security procedures, audit findings, access control reviews, and remediation plans. Must collaborate effectively with PeopleSoft functional teams, developers, DBAs, internal auditors, and cybersecurity teams
• The Senior PeopleSoft Security Analyst must be a hands-on technical expert capable of independently reviewing and resolving complex PeopleSoft security issues, strengthening access controls, protecting sensitive employee and payroll data, supporting audits, improving security reporting, and proactively identifying and remediating security risks across PeopleSoft environments

Requirements:

• Seeking a senior consultant with extensive hands-on experience in PeopleSoft application security administration, access governance, security auditing, and user access management
• The candidate must have strong technical knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, PeopleTools, and enterprise security controls
• Extensive experience managing PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, permission lists, row-level security, component and page access, process security, and role-based access control (RBAC)
• Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft security architecture, security tables, role assignments, permission-list configuration, user access provisioning, and security configuration across production and non-production environments
• Experience managing employee, contractor, vendor, retiree, and terminated-user access based on HR job data, effective dates, employment status, and approved access requests
• Ability to identify and resolve inappropriate or outdated access
• Extensive knowledge of PeopleSoft Query Manager, public and private queries, Query Access Groups (QAG), query trees, permission lists, and controls governing access to sensitive data
• Experience securing access to personally identifiable information (PII), employee records, payroll data, and other confidential information through appropriate roles, permission lists, row-level security, and database access controls
• Experience performing periodic access reviews, user and role recertification, manager approvals, segregation-of-duties reviews, privileged access assessments, audit evidence collection, and remediation of security findings
• Ability to develop and maintain security reports, monitor changes to user access and security configurations, investigate unauthorized access, identify control gaps, and automate recurring security monitoring activities
• Experience reviewing PeopleSoft security tables and access records, analyzing security changes, validating user and role assignments, and coordinating with database administrators to audit access to sensitive database tables
• Experience managing security across production, development, test, and staging environments
• Ability to validate security configurations, identify inappropriate access, and ensure sensitive production data is appropriately protected in non-production environments
• Experience reviewing and improving access request workflows, approval processes, manager access, employee timesheet access, and security-related operational procedures
• Ability to identify process gaps and recommend automation and standardization improvements
• Ability to independently investigate complex PeopleSoft access issues involving roles, permission lists, query access, row-level security, user profiles, and application authorization
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required
• Ability to document security procedures, audit findings, access control reviews, and remediation plans
• Must collaborate effectively with PeopleSoft functional teams, developers, DBAs, internal auditors, and cybersecurity teams
• Strong hands-on expertise in PeopleSoft security administration, HCM and FSCM security, roles and permission lists, Query Manager, Query Access Groups, row-level security, PII protection, access reviews, security reporting, and audit compliance
• Experience with PeopleTools 8.59 or later, PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, PeopleSoft security tables, SQL, Oracle database auditing, Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA), security automation, and enterprise access governance
• The Senior PeopleSoft Security Analyst must be a hands-on technical expert capable of independently reviewing and resolving complex PeopleSoft security issues, strengthening access controls, protecting sensitive employee and payroll data, supporting audits, improving security reporting, and proactively identifying and remediating security risks across PeopleSoft environments
• Experience reviewing public queries and identifying unauthorized exposure of sensitive information is highly desirable
• Knowledge of Oracle Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) is preferred
• Experience supporting large enterprise PeopleSoft environments with complex security requirements is strongly preferred