Senior Systems Analyst

This is a remote position.

The Senior Systems Analyst will support the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) Program.

This role is part of CPA's Fiscal Management Statewide Fiscal Systems team and provides advanced functional and consultative support across the CAPPS HR/Payroll tower, including HR/Payroll, Financials, STARR, and ancillary systems.

The Senior Systems Analyst serves as a primary point of contact for CAPPS agencies, supporting functional design, system configuration, and compliance activities such as FMLA administration and WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.

The role also oversees batch job monitoring, Fiscal Year-End coordination, and the CAPPS Annual Disaster Recovery exercise.

The Senior Systems Analyst works under minimal supervision, applying independent judgment to support a statewide network of more than 100 Texas state agencies and approximately 80,000 employees on the CAPPS Central platform.

Responsibilities : Provide advanced consultative and functional support for the CAPPS HR/Payroll tower, including Workforce Administration, Payroll Interface, Commitment Accounting, Time and Labor, TAM/CG, and HR security setup, including row-level security.

Ensure CAPPS compliance with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) by defining leave plans, customizing leave types, and supporting compliance reporting and auditing.

Serve as the functional point of contact for CAPPS agencies, creating and reviewing Functional Design Documents (FDDs) and performing functional configuration changes.

Configure system tables, business units, Set IDs, and table structures, and build workflow configurations using the Approval Workflow Engine (AWE).

Create queries and reports using PS/Query, SAP Business Objects, SQR, and BI Publisher, applying technical knowledge of Application Designer, Integration Broker, and SQL.

Monitor batch job schedules and execution, detect and respond to failures, validate output, manage dependencies, and document performance tuning activities.

Coordinate Fiscal Year-End activities, including reconciliations, system configurations, mass salary loads, and Benefit Enrollment Web Services integration with ERS.

Coordinate the CAPPS Annual Disaster Recovery exercise with the Managed Services vendor, including test scope definition, backup validation, and documentation of results.