PeopleSoft Security Consultant with Client: Higher Education

Hello Professionals,

We have a new opening for a remote engagement for a PeopleSoft Security consultant for a Higher Education client. The description is for a senior level person, but the customer also wants to see Techno-Functional resources with Security experience at a more cost-effective rate.
Job Title: PeopleSoft Security Consultant
Location: Remote
Start Date: March 7th
End Date: Estimated May 30th

Job Overview:
Lone Star College seeks an experienced PeopleSoft Security Consultant to assess, optimize, and strengthen the security of our FSM PeopleSoft Security framework. The consultant will perform a comprehensive security review, recommend best-practice improvements, and implement necessary changes to ensure compliance with critical regulatory and institutional requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct an in-depth assessment of Lone Star College s FSM PeopleSoft Security framework, including:
• Documenting existing configuration roles and elevated rights.
• Identifying access vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security gaps.
• Reviewing and defining role ownership for annual attestation approvals.
• Ensuring alignment with industry standards (NIST, SAO Access Control Guidelines, EDGAR, 2 CFR 200) and best practices.
• Identify primary pain points including unauthorized configuration changes, improper process executions, and insufficient segregation of duties.
• Provide a complete audit of configuration and high-risk components/pages, including current access levels, with recommendations for appropriate access restrictions.
• Implement approved security enhancements to mitigate identified risks.
• Evaluate and document potential improvements to the provisioning/deprovisioning process using Lone Star College s IAM tool, Rapid Identity, or propose steps needed for integration and role-based audits/reporting.
• Assess and recommend the most appropriate framework Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) or Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) based on assessment findings.
• Streamline and enhance the security request form and approval process.
• Produce weekly status reports and deliver a final presentation summarizing findings, recommendations, and implemented changes.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Proven experience conducting comprehensive PeopleSoft Security assessments and implementing security enhancements within PeopleSoft Finance systems.
• Expertise in identifying and remediating access control issues, security misconfigurations, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Hands-on knowledge of PeopleSoft Finance modules, understanding of configuration and high-risk pages/components, or equivalent PeopleSoft security experience.
• Familiarity with IAM tools (Rapid Identity preferred, but experience with other IAM tools acceptable).
• Proficiency in evaluating and recommending RBAC and/or ABAC security frameworks.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills for presenting findings and recommendations clearly.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, IT teams, and compliance personnel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with higher education institutions or similar organizations.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks specific to financial systems in higher education.
• Experience conducting security audits and attestations related to role management.

Project Management & Support:

• Internal project management support will be provided; the consultant is expected to work collaboratively with the internal PM.
• No training sessions or ongoing maintenance required; however, documentation of findings and recommendations is mandatory as instructed in the RFQ.

Budget & Engagement:

• Pricing should align with the fees outlined in the original RFQ (LSC MSA, RFP 879, 2023) or lower. Please submit your best offer.

This is a contract-based engagement with defined start and end dates; no extension or follow-up work is anticipated.

Thanks & Regards,

Anthony Kumar Guvvala

ERP Analysts, Inc.

Direct:

Email : |Fax: .

Workday Certified Partner |Oracle Gold Partner | CMMI Level3

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Hello Professionals,

We have a new opening for a remote engagement for a PeopleSoft Security consultant for a Higher Education client. The description is for a senior level person, but the customer also wants to see Techno-Functional resources with Security experience at a more cost-effective rate.
Job Title: PeopleSoft Security Consultant
Location: Remote
Start Date: March 7th
End Date: Estimated May 30th

Job Overview:
Lone Star College seeks an experienced PeopleSoft Security Consultant to assess, optimize, and strengthen the security of our FSM PeopleSoft Security framework. The consultant will perform a comprehensive security review, recommend best-practice improvements, and implement necessary changes to ensure compliance with critical regulatory and institutional requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct an in-depth assessment of Lone Star College s FSM PeopleSoft Security framework, including:
• Documenting existing configuration roles and elevated rights.
• Identifying access vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security gaps.
• Reviewing and defining role ownership for annual attestation approvals.
• Ensuring alignment with industry standards (NIST, SAO Access Control Guidelines, EDGAR, 2 CFR 200) and best practices.
• Identify primary pain points including unauthorized configuration changes, improper process executions, and insufficient segregation of duties.
• Provide a complete audit of configuration and high-risk components/pages, including current access levels, with recommendations for appropriate access restrictions.
• Implement approved security enhancements to mitigate identified risks.
• Evaluate and document potential improvements to the provisioning/deprovisioning process using Lone Star College s IAM tool, Rapid Identity, or propose steps needed for integration and role-based audits/reporting.
• Assess and recommend the most appropriate framework Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) or Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) based on assessment findings.
• Streamline and enhance the security request form and approval process.
• Produce weekly status reports and deliver a final presentation summarizing findings, recommendations, and implemented changes.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Proven experience conducting comprehensive PeopleSoft Security assessments and implementing security enhancements within PeopleSoft Finance systems.
• Expertise in identifying and remediating access control issues, security misconfigurations, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Hands-on knowledge of PeopleSoft Finance modules, understanding of configuration and high-risk pages/components, or equivalent PeopleSoft security experience.
• Familiarity with IAM tools (Rapid Identity preferred, but experience with other IAM tools acceptable).
• Proficiency in evaluating and recommending RBAC and/or ABAC security frameworks.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills for presenting findings and recommendations clearly.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, IT teams, and compliance personnel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with higher education institutions or similar organizations.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks specific to financial systems in higher education.
• Experience conducting security audits and attestations related to role management.

Project Management & Support:

• Internal project management support will be provided; the consultant is expected to work collaboratively with the internal PM.
• No training sessions or ongoing maintenance required; however, documentation of findings and recommendations is mandatory as instructed in the RFQ.

Budget & Engagement:

• Pricing should align with the fees outlined in the original RFQ (LSC MSA, RFP 879, 2023) or lower. Please submit your best offer.

This is a contract-based engagement with defined start and end dates; no extension or follow-up work is anticipated.

Thanks & Regards,

Anthony Kumar Guvvala

ERP Analysts, Inc.

Direct:

Email : |Fax: .

Workday Certified Partner |Oracle Gold Partner | CMMI Level3

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.