Financial Aid Systems Consultant
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Financial Aid Systems Consultant optimizing financial aid operations for colleges and universities. Advising on technology implementation, compliance, and student services across various systems.
Responsibilities:
- Advise colleges and universities on financial aid system configuration, optimization, and integration strategies
- Provide functional leadership for financial aid technology workflows, reporting processes, and data exchanges
- Translate regulatory and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Analyze, diagnose, and resolve system, workflow, and data-related challenges
- Identify opportunities to automate processes, reduce manual effort, and improve operational efficiency
- Support system implementations, upgrades, testing, validation, and modernization initiatives
- Improve data controls, reconciliations, reporting capabilities, and overall system effectiveness
- Develop documentation, playbooks, recommendations, and best-practice guidance tailored to institutional needs
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to financial aid offices, information technology teams, enrollment leaders, and executive stakeholders
Requirements:
- Significant experience with one or more higher education enterprise systems, including Banner, PeopleSoft, Workday, PowerFAIDS, Colleague, or comparable platforms
- Strong understanding of financial aid operations and the systems that support compliance and student services
- Experience with system configuration, implementation, integration, testing, and optimization
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to assess current-state processes and recommend future-state improvements
- Experience communicating technical concepts to functional staff, institutional leaders, and executive stakeholders
- Excellent organizational, project management, and client relationship skills
- Experience working in higher education technology, financial aid administration, ERP environments, consulting, or systems implementation projects
Benefits:
- Direct impact across multiple institutions
- Opportunity to become a trusted advisor to higher education leaders
- Exposure to a wide range of systems, technologies, and operating models
- Ability to influence best practices across the profession
- Meaningful work that supports access, compliance, and student success
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