Accounts Payable Senior Consultant
Resume:
Gregory A. Slaughter Sr.
*******@****.***
Executive Summary:
Mr. Slaughter is a Senior Functional ERP Financial Consultant with the last 20 plus years focused exclusively in Workday and PeopleSoft Financial Software, covering all stages of the Project Life Cycle Development including System Business Process Analysis, Requirements Study, Fit-Gap Analysis, High Level Design, Detail Design, Application Development, Testing, Configuration, Implementation and Post-implementation support. Mr. Slaughter is very organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines while participating as a team player with high end documentation skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Mr. Slaughter has managed numerous implementations worldwide and most recently managed the implementation and data conversion from PeopleSoft Financials Grants to Workday Financials Grants at Howard University. Specific details are listed below.
Education:
National Louis University, Chicago
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
National University, San Diego
Master’s Degree - Global E-Commerce
Workday Financial/Grants Certification
Gregory Slaughter [E], you have completed
Workday Pro Grants Management Services Certification
Certification # CER-00242752
Certification ID 100*********
Date Certified 01/02/2025
Status Active
PeopleSoft Financial Modules / Skills ver. 7.5 to 9.2
Project Costing, Grants Management, Contracts, Billings, Accounts Receivables, Asset Management, General Ledger, Commitment Control, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management, Time and Expenses, Workflow, nVision, Crystal, Query, People Code, and People Tools. Design and configure PeopleSoft financials modules to comply with and support the accounting and regulatory standards as related to GAAP, GASB, and other statutory financial practices.
Workday Financials Grants
Grants Management, Billings, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, Purchasing, Accounts Payable
Professional Career Accomplishments:
Workday Independent Consultant/GCA (Contracts and Grants) Consultant – Howard University
Peoplesoft Independent Consultant/GCA (Contracts and Grants) Consultant – Howard University
Independent Financial Senior Consultant for Deloitte Consulting USA – NY State, Kaiser Permanente
Independent Financial Senior Consultant for Deloitte Consulting Canada – McMasters University
Independent Financial lead consultant for Oracle Corporation – University of Hong Kong
State of Connecticut DOT letter of recognition for expertise in PeopleSoft Financial Consulting
Independent Financial Senior Consultant City of Albuquerque
PwC Consulting Senior Consultant
PeopleSoft, USA Professional Services Consultant
City Colleges of Chicago - Associate Controller Finance
Project Experience:
GslaughterProperties: April 2004 to Present
Howard University – Workday Financials Grants 01/01/2020 to 11/15/2024
Lead consultant of implementation and data conversion team for identification of system functionality for all grant related modules. Designed training workshops to compare new functionality of Workday versus the Peoplesoft 9.2, Designed and Developed the GMR (Grant Management Report. Designed as is to be working session material to identify current business processes in PS 9.2 versus Workday Grants. Worked with Workday consultants to identify data elements for data conversion. Designed, created, and executed test scripts to support go-live.
Responsible for daily production support for all grant related modules for the creation of proposals, awards and grant budgets. Managed technical resources to identify and fix production system errors. Managed the primary project combo tree, added values, speed types and ran the nightly combo edit process. Assisted with the integration of grant projects from the GL finance module to the HR Payroll module. Responsible for monitoring and correcting all transaction for projects, contract, billing and purchasing, AP, AR and GL interfaces. Produced and reviewed monthly billing invoices and ran comparison reports to compare GL expenses to project resources expenses.
As Grant Director/Administrator – I was responsible for inputting post award/grant financial data and information into the workday grant's module. This required detailed analysis of information gathered during the award/grant proposal process, review of sponsor information and verification of federal/private/ state award documentation. Research and tracking of workday award/grant information. Updating and validating historical data. The position also required a thorough understanding of all grants related issues and reports related to award/grant expenditures and closeout processes.
Howard Hospital Grants – Howard University has a hospital that required specialized reports that I created related to
Clinical trials and grant budgets. The hospital received numerous grants from major sponsors like NIH and subrecipients such as George Town University to conduct clinical trials at the hospital.
My Workday Grant responsibilities requires me to be proficient in the following areas:
Ability to configure and create awards
Ability to configure and create grants
Ability to configure and create and process award modifications
Ability to configure and create assign resources to a grant
Ability to configure and create billing schedules
Ability to configure and create award calendars
Ability to configure and create correct awards and grants
Ability to configure and create F&A
Ability to configure and create and understand how to use object classes
Ability to configure and create and run reports in workday
Ability to configure and create and update award lines life cycle status with validation rules
Ability to configure and create and enter grant budgets
Ability to configure and create and know how to activate and inactivate grants
Ability to configure and create and utilize excel spreadsheets for data loads
Ability to use teams and be available online
Ability to configure and create GMR reports in workday to review reports to view expense, encumbrances, journals.
Ability to configure and create and understand budget checking.
Ability to configure and create grants/projects
Ability to configure and implement contracts and billing modules
Ability to configure and implement and track accounts receivables modules
Ability to configure and implement and map GL financial accounts for grants, projects, contracts and billing modules
Completed configuration, testing and implementation for all grant and project related functionality
Ability to configure, create and implement custom budgetary reports
Ability to configure, create test scrips and trained end users on the creation of awards, through contract/sponsor billing to receivables.
Assisted with the loading of PS data to workday.
Howard University - Oracle PeopleSoft 9.2 Grants/Projects Upgrade 04/15/2016 to 01/01/2020
Howard University is one of the leading comprehensive research oriented, private universities in the nation. The Research Administration Services department facilitates and administers interdisciplinary research capacity growth and indirect cost recovery at Howard University, including integrated education and research strategies, professional development, and internal controls of sponsored activities. Howard University utilizes Oracle PeopleSoft Financials to manage the universities grant awards. After unsatisfactory findings related to the A-133 audit, I was retained as the Senior Consultant to address several areas of the audit findings and to incorporated the solutions to adhere and or correct the findings. And also to lead the strategic effort to upgrade the current grants financial system from version 9.1 to 9.2.
Reporting directly to the CFO and the Sr. Director of Grants and Contracts. Primary responsibilities are to review and revise the complete business cycle of the Research and Administration’s grant processes. This included the detail requirements and system interfaces beginning with the universities grants proposals, awards, F&A, projects and activities, commitment control budgets, customer contracts, billing and accounts receivables. The major finding of the A-133 audit was that grant reporting on multiple year awards was unreliable and inconsistent. Based on a decision in the initial implementation to use only one activity and to hard code that activity on every grant related transaction the university experienced difficulty producing reports. Removed the code and replace the customization with delivered functionality by utilizing numerous activities that represented multiple funding years and allowed for budgeting by activities and reporting on multiple year awards. This business change was accepted by the A-133 auditors. Conducted unit testing, system testing and UAT before integrating into the production environment. Designed and wrote functional/technical specifications to create an additional information tab on the grants project page to capture data elements for sub agencies and to support program and CDFA reporting.
Lead consultant of upgrade team for identification of system functionality for all grant related modules for ver. 9.1 vs 9.2. Designed workshops to compare new functionality in the 9.2 system related to Grant Portal, WorkCenters and Dash Boards. Review enhanced reporting, and project team security. Designed as is to be working session material to identify current business processes in 9.1 vs process in 9.2.
Responsible for daily production support for all grant related modules for the creation of proposals, awards and grant budgets. Managed technical resources to identify and fix production system errors. Assisted with the integration of grant projects from the GL finance module to the HR Payroll module. Responsible for monitoring and correcting all workday grant transactions for grants, billing and purchasing, AP, AR and GL interfaces. Produced and reviewed monthly billing invoices and ran comparison reports to compare GL expenses to project resources expenses.
Quintiles Inc. – Quest Diagnostics 12/15/2015 to 03/30/2016
Peoplesoft consultant,, Quintiles is a worldwide company that works with biopharmaceutical and other life science companies. With more than 32,000 employees working in about 100 countries, Quintiles has helped develop or commercialize all of the top-100, best-selling drugs on the market. Quintiles and Quest Diagnostics are merging into one company and both utilize PeopleSoft Financials ver. 9.2. As senior functional consultant, I reported directly to the project manager. Primary responsibilities, included development of a design to merge both companies PeopleSoft databases for the Projects, Contract, Billing and AR modules into one new instance. Created, designed, developed and wrote specification documents to customize existing tables and processes in order to utilize the out of the box delivered functionality. Developed and executed test scripts, conversion methodology and created additional configuration to support the new business model.
Florida State College at Jacksonville PeopleSoft 9.2 Financials and Grants 7/01/2015 to 11/16/2015
FSCJ is growing its reputation as the largest, most dynamic and most influential higher education institution on the First Coast. The number of programs offered and the quality of our graduates produce significant economic impact on the Northeast Florida region. FSCJ receives Grant, Contracts of approximately $ 45 million which supports student scholarships, capital and construction projects. Reported directly to the Director of Grants Accounting and Sponsored Programs. Primary responsibilities included conducting fit gap sessions and design sessions that produced design and configuration documents and detail values spreadsheets deliverables. Managed the project plan with Ciber resources teams to meet deadlines and project deliverables according to the overall financials project plan. Developed and configured the Colleges FSCJ prototype environment for Grants, Projects, Contracts, and Billing, Receivables and Commitment Control modules. Assisted with the development all Grant and Project test scripts for each module and conducted system test and integration testing which enables the College, Budget Office, Grants and Project Costing administration to utilize both delivered and customized integration with the Grants, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing and HRMS/ Payroll, Student Systems with Project Costing, Contracts, Billing and Accounts Receivables.
Conducted grants team weekly meetings related to pre and post award grants module design and implementation. Because the initial Finance GL Go Live began before the Grants implementation I recommended the “Blue Bird” Solution which allowed Grants Sponsored Program department and Grants Accounting to implement grant related projects tied to GL projects. Developed the conversion mapping approach and mapping spreadsheet to create Awards, Contracts with related Project and activities. Based on the conversion of Legacy data to created projects that were associated with the design of the automated creation of grant award and contracts. Provided templates for security matrix with roles based on project teams and associated workflow. Designed the Principle Investigators budgetary activity reports and set up of the grants portal. Incorporated enhanced PeopleSoft 9.2 functionality through the design of the Supplementary custom fields’ link on the Grants Awards and Project pages. This new functionality allowed the grants team to include required fields from their legacy system without the need for any additional customizations.
Public Health Institute – PeopleSoft 9.2 Financials and Grants Upgrade 1/19/2015 to 6/30/2015
For five decades, Public Health Institute (PHI) has served as fiscal agent and has overseen an impressive array of projects ranging from individual grants too large, multi-year, multi-site programs with national and international impact. Currently, PHI’s Grant, Contracts and Other Revenues of approximately $108 million facilitates the initiation of projects, fiscal sponsorships, incubator programs, partnerships with foundations and state agencies, and collaborates with others in the field, enabling research and interventions that would otherwise not be possible. As Senior Financial Consultant reported directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for PHI and provided implementation consulting services related to the transition of PHI from its legacy and manual systems to the new PeopleSoft financial system. Primary responsibilities included the design, development and configuration of Grants, Projects, Contracts, Billing, Receivables and Commitment Control modules. Assisted with the development all Grant, Project and KK test scripts for each module and conducted system test and integration testing which enables all the PHI Offices, Budget and Planning Office, Grants and Project Costing administration to utilize both delivered and customized integration with the Grants, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Expenses and HRMS/ Payroll with Project Costing and Contracts.
Created the design for PHI to utilize delivered Project Costing functionality related to Rate plans and Rate Sets that provided the solution to markup transactions related to indirect cost, administrative fees, and external cost. Managed the financial data conversion utilizing Component Interfaces to design, identify and map the PHI’s legacy database fields to the required fields in the Grant Proposals, Grant Awards, Contracts, Projects and Commitment control modules. Reviewed and revised all the grant related documentation, including grant and projects design and configuration guides and conversion guide.
Managed an off shore technical team in India to facilitate development and various customizations related to labor distribution and commitment control processing. Developed F&A trees and configuration based on PHI requirements. Designed KK trees, configured KK ledgers and ledgers for a unit based on PHI requirements. Facilitated UAT based on converted data. Manages both functional technical migration steps to keep financial database and Bolt On in Sync.
City Colleges of Chicago: Associate Controller Finance
Colleges of Chicago, Oracle Financials
Associate Controller Finance – reported directly to Vice Chancellor of Finance.
Managed twelve (12) individuals and approximately ($300 million) in financial information for College districts resources of revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities and capital.
Additional Positions with the City Colleges - Kennedy-King College -Director of Business and Operational Services - Special Assignment, Finance - Director of Accounts Payable - Special Assignment, WYCC-TV Business Manager.
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