Position Description
Assured Guaranty is seeking an experienced senior financial analyst to join the finance development team responsible for maintaining and enhancing our PeopleSoft Financials implementation. This role focuses on building, customizing, and supporting the PeopleSoft finance system, while aggressively leveraging AI technologies and tools to modernize the solution streamline testing, accelerate delivery and improve quality. The ideal candidate pairs strong PeopleSoft functional skills with demonstrable AI-driven productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implements and enhances software, including configuration, testing, and issue remediation of PeopleSoft Financials application, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable Treasury-Cash Management and Asset Management modules.
- Identifies opportunities for process improvement and optimization within PeopleSoft applications and leverages AI to enhance productivity and quality.
- Collaborates with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into functional solutions.
- Coordinates and executes testing and quality assurance activities of customizations, upgrades, and patches across multiple environments to ensure system stability.
- Designs and develops nVision reports and SQL queries to facilitate reporting and application troubleshooting,
- Leverages AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to accelerate engineering, testing, and documentation.
- Integrates AI capabilities with enterprise systems and centralized AI platform services
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, information systems, engineering, or a related field OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Five years of experience developing and supporting PeopleSoft Financials applications, with hands-on expertise across the GL, AP, AM, and TR-CM modules.
- Two to four years of accounting experience in general ledger and/ or accounts payable.
- Proficient in developing nVision reports, PS Query and SQL; experience with PeopleSoft Test Framework and BI Publisher a plus.
- Experience applying AI technologies to engineering or business problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with general-purpose programming (Python, JavaScript, or similar) a plus.
- Exposure to agent-based systems, multi-step AI workflows, and context engineering a plus
Compensation
Annual base salary for the position is expected to be from $165,000 per year to $215,000 per year. The actual salary will depend on various factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s experience and credentials, salary expectations of applicable candidates, and other applicable market conditions. This position also provides applicable employee benefits, as well as eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus and long-term incentive awards.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in finance, information systems, engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Five years developing and supporting PeopleSoft Financials with hands-on expertise across GL, AP, AM, and TR-CM modules
- Two to four years of accounting experience in general ledger and/or accounts payable
- Proficient in developing nVision reports, PS Query, and SQL
- Experience applying AI technologies to engineering or business problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with PeopleSoft Test Framework and BI Publisher
- Familiarity with general-purpose programming (Python, JavaScript, or similar)
- Exposure to agent-based systems, multi-step AI workflows, and context engineering
- Familiarity with AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
What We Do
Assured Guaranty is the leading provider of financial guaranty insurance. We guarantee timely payment of scheduled principal and interest when due on municipal, public infrastructure and structured financings. Issuers use our financial guarantees to lower their cost of funds, broaden distribution and diversify funding sources. For more than three decades, our insurance subsidiaries have helped to lower the cost of borrowing for municipalities and other issuers across the United States by guaranteeing a wide range of tax-exempt and taxable, investment-grade, municipal bonds that are supported by either tax revenues or revenues from essential public projects or services. From schools to clean water, from transportation projects to hospitals and more, we help municipalities build sustainable public infrastructure and better serve their residents, including their underserved and at-risk communities. We are also active in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and other developed countries, where we guarantee public-private partnership, local authority and regulated utility financings. In structured finance, globally, we guarantee asset securitizations and craft custom applications of our guarantees to assist our institutional clients in managing their portfolio risk and capital. For investors, our value proposition includes not only the security of our unconditional, irrevocable guaranty but also our experienced credit selection, underwriting and surveillance. Our business model has proven its resilience through multiple business cycles, and we have demonstrated our commitment to maintaining the financial strength to protect our policyholders for the life of their insured investments. In addition, our subsidiary Assured Investment Management LLC provides alternative investment management and advisory services to institutional and other qualified investors through our investment arm and offers a variety of credit-focused strategies and structured finance solutions.
