Finance Solutions Consultant — Higher Education (Colleague)

Ellucian; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Flexible time off

401k with company match

Job summary

Ellucian is seeking a Colleague Finance Functional Consultant to partner with colleges and universities, helping them optimize their financial systems and maximize the value of Ellucian solutions. In this customer-facing role, you will translate business needs into functional specifications, support implementations, and assist with testing and training to ensure smooth adoption of Colleague Finance.

You will collaborate with clients, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years in higher education Finance Office, financial systems environment, or higher education functional consulting role.
• Hands-on experience with Ellucian Colleague Finance and understanding of its functionality.
• Knowledge of core higher education financial operations (GL, AP, purchasing, budgeting, financial reporting).
• Familiarity with higher education business processes and how financial systems support operations.
• Experience troubleshooting functional system issues, evaluating processes, and proposing practical solutions.
• Ability to gather requirements and translate them into functional improvements.
• Experience supporting system testing, upgrades, or configuration changes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication; able to collaborate with customers and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage tasks, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
• Customer-focused mindset with willingness to learn and improve.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional consulting and support to higher education customers using Ellucian Colleague Finance, maximizing system functionality and efficiency.
• Partner with customers to understand business needs, evaluate processes, and recommend improvements for efficiency.
• Assist customers with implementing new functionality, configuring solutions, and optimizing existing Colleague Finance processes.
• Troubleshoot functional issues, collaborating with customers and internal teams to implement solutions.
• Support business process reviews, requirements gathering, and prototyping sessions to identify improvements.
• Translate customer requirements into functional specifications for reporting, interfaces, and customizations.
• Develop and execute test plans for upgrades, patches, and configurations.
• Collaborate with customers to validate updates meet business requirements.
• Create clear documentation on processes, requirements, testing, and user guidance.
• Support training by creating materials and delivering knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Work with other consultants and teams to complete projects on time and scope.
• Build strong customer relationships through responsive support and practical recommendations.
• Assist customers adopting new SaaS-based capabilities and modernized operations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Functional consulting

Customer communication

Requirements gathering

Troubleshooting

Project management

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Collaboration

Tools

Ellucian Colleague Finance

Job description

Ellucian is seeking a Colleague Finance Functional Consultant to partner with colleges and universities, helping them optimize their financial systems and maximize the value of Ellucian solutions. In this customer-facing role, you will translate business needs into functional specifications, support implementations, and assist with testing and training to ensure smooth adoption of Colleague Finance.

You will collaborate with clients, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to continuous improvement