Senior Banner Financial AID Consultant

Here at Ellucian, we are motivated by a mission - power education so institutions can empower student success.  We are the global market leader in EdTech for higher education, serving more than 2,900 customers and reaching over 22 million students in 50 countries.  We are dedicated to helping higher education unlock learning for all by providing solutions that support the entire student lifecycle and deliver insights needed now and into the future.

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.

Are you a super user of Banner Student Information Systems or a talented higher education professional with experience implementing the Banner Financial Aid Information System modules? Are you interested in a career delivering innovative solutions that will transform Higher Ed, including enthusiasm for the variety of software solutions used to run the business of Higher Education? If you answered yes, then we should talk!

Ellucian is seeking an experienced Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant to join the North American Professional Services team to lead implementations of our integrated administrative solutions for colleges and universities. The Senior Banner Financial Aid Consultant will support all aspects related to the implementation, assessment, configuration, conversion, training, testing and deployment of our Banner Financial Aid Solution. The position will capitalize on your extensive understanding of the Banner Financial Aid Information System, specifically focused on these areas: Application Processing, Requirements Tracking, Budgeting, Funds Management, Packaging, Disbursement, Federal Program Management, Self Service and Satisfactory Academic Progress.  Understanding the connections to the Student and Accounts Receivable Modules will be of added value.

Higher education customers are transforming to 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 transformation to cloud/SAAS solutions and ensure successful adoption of these solutions.

Where you will make an impact

• Proactively prepare for and deliver high quality services with a willingness to learn and adapt to new strategies that evolve as technology and implementation methodology mature.
• Utilize strong analytical and problem-solving skills to bridge the gap between the functional and technical aspects of Ellucian solutions and client’s business objectives.
• Lead customers to embrace performance improvement, transformation and modernization and remediate issues that impede enabling customer greatness, executing all activities with precision and professionalism to ensure successful SaaS implementations.
• Ability to analyze, identify, clarify, and organize system requirements for Financial AID rule writing in the form of use cases and specification parameters to be provided to development peers.
• Collaborates with various Professional Services teammates on process improvement, use and maintenance of services artifacts and the maturation and promotion of recommended practices.
• Success will be measured by customer satisfaction, achievement of project goals, and utilization targets.

What you will bring

• Banner experience including implementation and deployment work on the modules noted above. (3-5+ years).
• Willingness to grow knowledge across other Ellucian solutions.
• Ability to communicate and present to work team stakeholders as well as project leaders both internally and externally.
• Enabling delivery readiness, problem solving and root cause analysis through creativity, critical thinking and a strong work ethic.
• Strong prioritization skills, able to manage activities based on business impact and time constraints.
• Able to multitask and meet deadlines.
• Support and demonstration of Ellucian values.
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally to deliver services when required.
• Experience with consortium or system-wide models, California, Texas, Florida or New York state higher education regulations would be a bonus.

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision 
• Flexible time off 
• Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 401k w/ match & Bright Plan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• Charitable leave – 40 hours/year
• Telemedicine
  • Wellness
  • Ginger (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• Rethink & Wellthy– caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups 
• Tuition Reimbursement Assistance 
• Professional development opportunities

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