Purpose Analyze and implement technology and business process solutions for the Port of Seattle’s financial systems in support of the Port’s strategic business initiatives.  Essential Functions This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed.  Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: Progressive Systems Administration:  Elicit, perform and develop system/process requirements, functional specifications, system configuration, system testing, solutions documentation, and partner with IT on customizations development. Evaluate and provide meaningful data to improve the organizations decision-making capabilities. Build business cases for new technology projects from AFR leadership that include alternative technical solutions, options, risks, cost-benefit analysis, and impact on other business processes.  Manage quality assurance by developing and implementing test strategy, test scenarios and test cases followed by executing the tests, debugging and documenting results.  Facilitate learning and development workshops with Port business partners related to change management of new systems and/or business processes.  Provide advanced information retrieval and complex query development, ensuring the validity of the information produced.  Define PeopleSoft user roles and responsibilities, then correlate or translate user roles and responsibilities to system access, permissions and profiles ensuring separation of duty is present and maintained.  Project Leadership and Support:  Create and implement project plan and facilitate execution. Determine the appropriate time to make advancement on projects and move on to next stages. Assist in the enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.  Clarify the duties, roles and functions of team members between both prospective competing team members and their superiors.  Ensure alignment with business sponsor, stakeholders, and senior leadership. Interface with staff developing strategy as technical advisor for new functionality from applications, releases, and upgrades. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the needed artifacts (i.e., functional requirements, business requirements document, use cases, screen and interface designs).   Work directly with and serve as the liaison between business units, technology teams, development team and support teams.  Continuous Process Improvement & Lean Culture Adoption: Shape a culture of innovation within and beyond the AFR Department in which people collaborating come up with new ideas, methods, and processes to increase productivity, improve efficiency and reduce costs.  Evaluate current systems, policies and processes to identify opportunities to best optimize resources by eliminating redundancies and by increasing automation and system functionality.  Ensure all processes and operations are necessary, clearly defined, and efficiently designed to align people, systems, and policies. Key Liaison with Business Partners on Technology: Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.  Interface with staff developing strategy as technical advisor for new functionality from applications, releases, and upgrades. Share, educate, and connect knowledge with the appropriate audiences.  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Expertise implementing, upgrading and using PeopleSoft Financials and HCM including advanced ad-hoc query development and strong functional knowledge of system security roles and set-up.  General understanding of Accounting and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and a strong understanding of internal controls and systems/operational risk assessment and mitigation.  Able to define sound and functional process controls and incorporate them into Port Accounting/Financial systems and business processes. Advanced, broad technical expertise in PeopleSoft Financials and HCM and in troubleshooting cross-module system issues, requiring knowledge of system configuration, as well as Accounting functions and business processes including the interrelationships and interdependencies between each of the modules. Skilled at structured analysis techniques, issue management, risk analysis and mitigation, recognizing and mitigating sensitive project issues, problem solving, conceptual and logical thinking. Strong oral, business and technical writing skills that allow for facilitation of meetings, presentations and requirements gathering sessions. Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills that establish rapport, persuade cross-functional business partners at all organizational levels, assist in understanding of technical information, and resolve conflicts in a positive manner. Ability to evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicting information, breakdown high-level information into details and differentiate user requests from the underlying true needs. Able to understand business strategy and translate into specific details. Able to mentor business partners to accept change and use new technology.  Ability to lead and negotiate business solutions that balance technical capability, cost, and time, against business need.  Ability to work independently with users to define concepts, under direction of project managers is required.  Ability to communicate difficult or sensitive information tactfully.  Ability to challenge the status quo and facilitate different perspectives to drive solutions in the support of business results.  Qualifications Combination of education and experience demonstrative knowledge, skills and abilities equivalent to: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related field; Eight (8) years of experience with automated financial and accounting system; Four (4) years of experience in each of the following: Business process analysis and improvement; and project management for medium to large technology and business process optimization projects; and Two (2) years of experience developing and conducting training classes and developing training materials.  Preferred Qualifications PMP; CPA; CBAP; Six Sigma or Lean Practitioner Certification; Experience with Business Intelligence and data mining tools such as Tableau.

SignUpGenius simplifies the process of coordinating events and people by providing online sign ups for nonprofits, schools, sports, churches, families, colleges, businesses and organizations. By enabling up to 14 million unique visitors per month to sign up for tasks online, SignUpGenius has done away with the need for paper sign ups, "reply-all" emails and phone trees. Working for this company involves being part of a fast-paced, creative team environment in order to maintain the largest volunteer management service on the internet. Responsibilities Help establish, refine, and document QA policies and procedures Determine use cases and design the testing plan for new web development items Execute tests as well as assist other QA team members during the testing process Work with the QA team and developers/designers to ensure all defects are properly resolved prior to deployments Assist in post-deployment trouble-shooting and problem solving when required Report progress to CTO and work with CTO and QA Team Lead to improve the overall development lifecycle Help identify and implement test automation scripts to improve efficiency Requirements 3+ years of experience as a quality assurance analyst, specifically in the area of web-based software testing Bachelor’s degree from an accredited 4-year college or university Full system development lifecycle experience Experience in designing, developing, and continually improving a software testing process Expertise in functional testing, integration testing, performance testing, and regression testing Strong background in establishing QA policies, procedures, strategies, and metrics and the ability to employ these with a team to ensure the quality of a product Ability to work on multiple projects at a time Superior analytical, troubleshooting, time management, communication, and presentation skills High attention to detail and quality Extensive previous use of SignUpGenius.com is preferred Experience in the non-profit, volunteer, and/or church ministry fields Strong understanding of the volunteer organizing needs of parents with school-aged children Self-motivated and able to handle responsibilities without consistent oversight Terms of Employment Full time (consistent 43 hours per week) In office – Ballantyne Corporate Park, Charlotte, NC No relocation assistance Start Date: Immediately Benefits: 100% employee health care premium paid, matching 401(k), 8 holidays, PTO, matched giving program, end-of-year bonus, professional development   To apply, click the Apply Now button on this page to send your resume in PDF format.

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.                                                Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good. Scrum Master In the Scrum Master role, you'll ensure your teams’ delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban/etc.) to enable predictable, quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. The Scrum Master will optimize team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team. General Responsibilities Ensures team(s) maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments and progress Understands and coaches the team on delivery controls/compliance to minimize operational/reputational risk Understands and supports the product and technical strategies Stays current on domain architecture and targets to identify upstream/downstream dependencies and to support the team in risk management Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required) Supports team’s automation (testing, pipelines, deployments)/DevOps journey Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practices and work products Coaches PO/team on backlog refinement and prioritization Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery Understands and encourages team's engineering innovation and improvement (XP engineering practices, Dev Ops, etc.) Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization Acts as an Agile mentor/coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community Basic Qualifications Bachelor's Degree At least 2 years of Agile experience Preferred Qualifications Certified Scrum Master  4+ years of experience facilitating Agile teams on technology projects  3+ years of experience using JIRA (or VersionOne) 4+ years of experience managing projects  3+ years of experience with Enterprise Architecture projects and Open Source activities 1+ year of exposure or experience with release train engineering At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.