Ellucian
Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Other
🗓️ January 22nd, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant. The role involves leading implementations of integrated administrative solutions for colleges and universities, with responsibilities including implementation, assessment, configuration, conversion, training, testing, and deployment of the Banner Financial Aid Solution.
The consultant will actively collaborate with customers to aid their transition to cloud/SaaS solutions while ensuring successful adoption and addressing institutional transformation.
The consultant will actively collaborate with customers to aid their transition to cloud/SaaS solutions while ensuring successful adoption and addressing institutional transformation.
Highlights
- Lead implementations of Banner Financial Aid solutions.
- Requires 5+ years of experience with Banner Financial Aid.
- Responsible for configuration, conversion, training, and deployment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and ability to bridge functional and technical aspects.
- Travel both domestically and internationally may be required.
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision.
- Flexible time off and generous parental leave offered.
- 401k matching and professional development opportunities available.
- Experience with specific state regulations or consortium models is advantageous.
- Promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment with employee resource groups.
Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant Full Description
US
Services
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Ellucian is seeking an experienced Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant to join the North American Professional Services team to lead implementations of our integrated administrative solutions for colleges and universities. The Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant will support all aspects related to the implementation, assessment, configuration, conversion, training, testing and deployment of our Banner Financial Aid Solution. The position will capitalize on your extensive understanding of the Banner Financial Aid Information System, specifically focused on these areas: Application Processing, Requirements Tracking, Budgeting, Funds Management, Packaging, Disbursement, Federal Program Management, Self Service and Satisfactory Academic Progress. Understanding the connections to the Student and Accounts Receivable Modules will be of added value.
Higher education customers are transforming to modern campuses while leveraging technology and solutions to enable student success. In this mission critical role, you will partner with our customers to help enable their transformation to cloud/SAAS solutions and ensure successful adoption of these solutions.
Where you will make an impact
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Ellucian is seeking an experienced Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant to join the North American Professional Services team to lead implementations of our integrated administrative solutions for colleges and universities. The Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant will support all aspects related to the implementation, assessment, configuration, conversion, training, testing and deployment of our Banner Financial Aid Solution. The position will capitalize on your extensive understanding of the Banner Financial Aid Information System, specifically focused on these areas: Application Processing, Requirements Tracking, Budgeting, Funds Management, Packaging, Disbursement, Federal Program Management, Self Service and Satisfactory Academic Progress. Understanding the connections to the Student and Accounts Receivable Modules will be of added value.
Higher education customers are transforming to modern campuses while leveraging technology and solutions to enable student success. In this mission critical role, you will partner with our customers to help enable their transformation to cloud/SAAS solutions and ensure successful adoption of these solutions.
Where you will make an impact
- Proactively prepare for and deliver high quality services with a willingness to learn and adapt to new strategies that evolve as technology and implementation methodology mature.
- Utilize strong analytical and problem-solving skills to bridge the gap between the functional and technical aspects of Ellucian solutions and client’s business objectives.
- Lead customers to embrace performance improvement, transformation and modernization and remediate issues that impede enabling customer greatness, executing all activities with precision and professionalism to ensure successful SaaS implementations.
- Ability to analyze, identify, clarify, and organize system requirements for financial aid rule writing in the form of use cases and specification parameters to be provided to development peers.
- Collaborates with various Professional Services teammates on process improvement, use and maintenance of services artifacts and the maturation and promotion of recommended practices.
- Success will be measured by customer satisfaction, achievement of project goals, and utilization targets.
What you will bring
- 5+ years Banner Financial Aid experience including implementation and deployment work on the modules noted above.
- Willingness to grow knowledge across other Ellucian solutions.
- Ability to communicate and present to work team stakeholders as well as project leaders both internally and externally.
- Enabling delivery readiness, problem solving and root cause analysis through creativity, critical thinking and a strong work ethic.
- Strong prioritization skills, able to manage activities based on business impact and time constraints.
- Able to multitask and meet deadlines.
- Support and demonstration of Ellucian values.
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally to deliver services when required.
- Experience with consortium or system-wide models, California, Texas, Florida or New York state higher education regulations would be a bonus.
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. Additionally, this job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly.
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