Senior Business Systems Analyst: Student Financials & Aid

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Charlottesville (VA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Virginia ITS seeks a Senior Business Systems Analyst to steward Student Financials and Financial Aid in PeopleSoft. The role guides module roadmaps, interfaces with stakeholders across schools, and ensures high-quality specifications for enhancements.

Hybrid eligibility with on-site work supports collaborating closely with university partners and ITS staff. The position emphasizes process redesign, training, testing, and reliable service delivery for applicants and students while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Five years of PeopleSoft Student Financials and Financial Aid experience or equivalent.
• Excellent project management, team-building, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills across University roles.

Responsibilities

• Assess, prioritize, analyze, and redesign existing business processes and technologies; develop and test solutions; troubleshoot complex issues; provide training on new technologies.
• Support efforts to keep the SIS secure, efficient, patched, and fully functioning for applicants, students, instructors, advisors, and administrative staff.
• Resolve issues involving the student system and interfacing products, and maintain relevant system configuration and setup.
• Serve as steward for the Student Financials and Financial Aid SIS modules; define module roadmaps and plan future enhancements.
• Collaborate with University partners to plan enhancement and testing cycles and communicate release plans to stakeholders.
• Explain complex technical concepts clearly to nontechnical stakeholders and facilitate meetings and work groups.
• Support ITS and University goals, focus on people, initiate positive change, and encourage team collaboration.

Skills

Business analysis

Project management

Communication

Process improvement

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PeopleSoft

Workday

ServiceNow

Job description

University of Virginia ITS seeks a Senior Business Systems Analyst to steward Student Financials and Financial Aid in PeopleSoft. The role guides module roadmaps, interfaces with stakeholders across schools, and ensures high-quality specifications for enhancements.

Hybrid eligibility with on-site work supports collaborating closely with university partners and ITS staff. The position emphasizes process redesign, training, testing, and reliable service delivery for applicants and students while