Workday Student Finance Lead

Cognizant; Perth; Sur place; AUD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cognizant’s Workday Student Practice in Australia and New Zealand is seeking a skilled consultant to lead design and configuration for tuition and fee assessment, billing, payments, sponsorships, refunds and reconciliation.

You will work directly with universities, translating regulatory requirements into practical Workday Student configurations, aligning with Student Records and Workday Financial Management, and supporting end-to-end testing and go-live readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in student accounts, student fees, and university finance functions.
• Knowledge of government funding, fees, or HE regulations is preferred.
• Ability to translate policy into system design.
• Experience with workshops and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with testing and data validation preferred.

Responsabilités

• Lead discovery and design sessions for tuition and fee assessment, student billing, payments, payment plans, sponsorships, refunds and receivables.
• Configure Student Financials business processes, rules, charge structures, due dates and accounting related requirements.
• Design practical handling for waivers, adjustments, reversals, third party arrangements and exceptional cases.
• Configure student account processes in alignment with institutional policy, financial controls and regulatory requirements.
• Work with Student Records and finance stakeholders to align the financial impacts of enrolment, changes, withdrawal and completion events.
• Document requirements, design decisions and configuration.
• Apply your higher education experience to shape practical future-state processes for student finance and student administration teams.
• Bring an understanding of how Australian or New Zealand universities manage student fees and finances to design discussions, including Commonwealth supported places, HELP loans, the eCAF process and Commonwealth Assistance Notice, so Workday Student is configured for local fee structures, funding arrangements, terminology and policy settings.
• Identify data, security, reporting and integration requirements, including payment gateways, banking and finance platforms.
• Define reconciliation, operational reporting and audit requirements for student financial activity.
• Prepare and execute unit testing, support end to end testing and assist with defect resolution.
• Support data conversion validation, opening balance activities, cutover preparation, training and go live readiness.
• Provide clear advice on Workday leading practices while recognising institutional context and policy obligations.
• Contribute reusable configuration guidance, test assets and delivery methods to the Cognizant Student Practice.

Connaissances

Student accounts

Student fees

University finance

Receivables

Workday Student

Outils

Workday Student

Description du poste

Cognizant’s Workday Student Practice in Australia and New Zealand is seeking a skilled consultant to lead design and configuration for tuition and fee assessment, billing, payments, sponsorships, refunds and reconciliation.

You will work directly with universities, translating regulatory requirements into practical Workday Student configurations, aligning with Student Records and Workday Financial Management, and supporting end-to-end testing and go-live readiness.