Consultant – Banner Financial Aid – Ellucian

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Consultant – Banner Financial Aid – Advisory Services

This role provides personalized and on-going guidance and support on Ellucian solutions and customer business operations post-implementation, enabling customers to maximize value from their solutions. The role works closely with the customer, building a relationship with the customer’s points of contact, understanding their business needs and the customer’s current use and knowledge of the Ellucian solution.

The successful candidate will possess a strong functional understanding of Banner Financial Aid and an overall understanding of Ellucian’s broad portfolio of solutions. Experience with Banner student finance is a plus but not required.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

• Work with customer to gain an understanding of their goals, priorities, processes and challenges related to the supported applications.
• Meet regularly (typically weekly) with the customer to maintain open communication.
• Provide personalized support to emails and phone calls from customer points-of-contact.

• Provide guidance and assist with planning and deployment of upgrades, changes and new functionality.
• Make recommendations and assist with the deployment of new functionality.
• Research solutions and provide support and guidance in response to customer questions and issues.
• Review with the customer their open and recently closed support cases and make recommendations to reduce future issues.
• Review with the customer relevant Support Center change requests, defects and knowledge articles.

• Share and discuss the implications of applicable Ellucian product information such as roadmaps and product announcements.
• Promote customer usage of Ellucian resources such as the Solution Center, product documentation and Communities.
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions in response to specific customer needs
• Monitor customer support cases and coordinate response to accelerate time to resolution.
• Provide a channel for direct communication about Ellucian product critical issues.

• Visit on-site annually to understand the customers current business environment, goals and priorities; assess the customers current solution usage for opportunities; and work with the customer to create or update a support plan for the coming year.
• Work closely with other teams across Ellucian to drive the best customer experience.

General Requirements :

• A strong focus on customer service
• Taking initiative and delivering on commitments to customers
• Working independently on many concurrent activities
• Serving as a subject matter expert for specific technical or functional areas
• Understanding customer issues and brokering solutions between the customer and multiple Ellucian teams

• Effectively communicating and presenting to all levels within the customer organization

Banner Financial Aid Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in a higher education student financial aid office or equivalent consulting experience.

• Demonstrated understanding of financial aid federal regulations and practices at an accredited institution of higher education in the United States or abroad.
• In-depth functional knowledge of business processes as related to student service offices and functions within colleges and universities.
• Hands-on experience with the management, configuration, and operational day-to-day usage of the Banner Financial Aid module.
• Expert knowledge of business process and Banner operations in the following areas: financial aid applications; packaging and disbursement; managing funds; student employment and federal/institutional work study; processing loans; satisfactory academic progress.

Desired Ellucian and Partner Product Experience :

• Expert knowledge of business process and Banner operations in the following areas: assessing fees, tuition, and other charges; processing, posting, and applying payments and credits; student billing and collections; third party contracts and billing; student refunds.
• Reporting from Banner and Banner Operational Data Store (ODS)
• Banner Workflow
• Ellucian Workflow

• Automic Applications Manager (formerly known as UC4) operations
• Payment Adapter (i.e. TouchNet Payment Gateway)

Desired Experience & Knowledge :

• Project management or team leadership

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Additional Information:
Req ID: 5095
Hiring Type: Full – Time
Level of Experience: Mid-Career
Remote: Yes
Travel Required: 0%-25%

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