Senior PeopleSoft Student Financials Lead Consultant

Sierra Cedar Corp; United States, Northern America, Americas; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Opportunities for growth and dev

Collaborative work environment

Job summary

Sierra-Cedar is seeking a Senior Consultant-level leader to support PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Student Financials in higher education. You will work hands-on to optimize billing, payments, refunds, and GL integrations, with potential expansion to Oracle Student Management projects.

Ideal candidate has substantial PeopleSoft Student Financials experience and a background in higher education operations, billing cycles, and client-facing delivery. Role allows remote work from the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, IS/CS, HEA, or related field.
• Hands-on functional experience with PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Student Financials.
• Strong understanding of higher education processes: student accounts, billing, collections, refunds, and cash management.
• Experience translating business requirements into system solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving, written and verbal communication for client work.

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Student Financials implementations from planning through deployment.
• Partner with clients to evaluate current configurations and operational requirements.
• Analyze and optimize tuition, billing, cashiering, collections, refunds, and third‑party billing.
• Configure and troubleshoot Student Financials functionality and GL integration.
• Support item type setup, trees, charge priorities, and unapplied payments.
• Conduct fit‑gap analysis and recommend aligned solutions.
• Identify improvements to improve efficiency and adoption.
• Support data mapping, conversion, validation, and testing activities.
• Develop functional requirements for reports, interfaces, and integrations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Student Accounts, Bursar, Financial Aid, and Finance.
• Facilitate work sessions, requirements gathering, testing, and knowledge transfer.
• Mentor team members and lead project workstreams.

Skills

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Client-facing skills

Business process knowledge (HE)

Requirements analysis

Problem solving

Communication

Implementation experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Sierra-Cedar is seeking a Senior Consultant-level leader to support PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Student Financials in higher education. You will work hands-on to optimize billing, payments, refunds, and GL integrations, with potential expansion to Oracle Student Management projects.

Ideal candidate has substantial PeopleSoft Student Financials experience and a background in higher education operations, billing cycles, and client-facing delivery. Role allows remote work from the U.S.