Colleague Finance Consultant (US - Remote)

Ellucian Company L.P.; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in education technology seeks an experienced higher education consultant with expertise in Colleague Finance. You will consult with customers, providing guidance and support to maximize the value of Ellucian solutions, ensuring successful adoption and transformation to SaaS solutions.

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision

Flexible time off

401k w/ match & BrightPlan

Parental Leave

5 charitable days to support the community

Telemedicine

Diversity and inclusion programs

Education Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Colleague Finance.
• Minimum of 5 years in a higher education Finance Office or equivalent consulting experience.
• In-depth functional knowledge of business processes related to Finance.

Responsibilities

• Consult with customers on assigned projects to identify solutions.
• Evaluate existing business processes and recommend improvements.
• Provide high-quality customer consultation and support for the Colleague Finance module.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Customer consultation

Job description

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

Are you an experienced higher education consultant and experienced with Colleague by Ellucian? Do you have experience working in the Finance office and supporting the Colleague Finance module? Are you interested in a career delivering innovative solutions that will transform Higher Ed? If you answered yes, then we should talk!

As a member of our team, you will be instrumental in consulting with our customers and delivering value-added services that provide the quickest path to institutional success. This role provides personalized and on-going guidance and support on Ellucian solutions and customer business operations post-implementation, enabling customers to maximize value from their solutions. The role works closely with the customer, building a relationship with the customer’s points of contact, understanding their business needs and the customer’s current use and knowledge of the Ellucian solution.

Higher education customers are transforming into 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 business office, including transformation to SaaS solutions and ensure successful adoption of these solutions.

Where you will make an impact

• The Consultant works with customers on assigned projects to identify solutions to business and functional problems.
• Executing and completing assigned projects within the time and scope negotiated with the customer.
• Evaluating existing business processes and procedures, making recommendations for improvement.
• Implementing systems and proof of concepts that best fit the customer's needs.
• Ensuring customer satisfaction until the project is complete.
• The successful candidate will possess a strong functional understanding of the Colleague Finance module and an overall understanding of Ellucian’s broad portfolio of solutions. Additional knowledge of touch points to the Colleague Student Finance (Student A/R) module is a plus.
• Provides high-quality customer consultation and support to Ellucian’s Colleague product suite, specifically Colleague Finance.
• Assists customers with implementing new functionality into the Colleague Finance module.
• Assists clients in troubleshooting issues related to Finance and other modules within the Ellucian Colleague product suite.
• Interacts with the customer and other consultants to translate business requirements into functional specifications for conversions, reporting, interfaces and customizations.
• Facilitates business process review and application prototyping sessions as well as providing insight into best practice methodologies.
• Evaluates and modifies systems, where appropriate, relative to the customer business practices.
• Provides customer high-quality business process, change management and other appropriate documentation.
• Provides direction in developing testing methodology and test scripts for use during upgrades, patch application and customizations.
• Works with the customer to test and confirm modifications and/or updates meet specifications.
• Implements modifications and/or updates.
• Provides guidance in the development of user-training strategy, and when appropriate, delivers such training.
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills and self-starter attitude.

What you will bring

• Hands-on experience with Colleague Finance.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in a higher education Finance Office or equivalent consulting experience.
• In-depth functional knowledge of business processes as related to Finance and functions within colleges and universities.
• Expert knowledge of business process and Colleague operations within the Colleague Finance module.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.

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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