[Hiring] Colleague Finance Functional Consultant @Ellucian

Role Description

Ellucian is seeking a Colleague Finance Functional Consultant to partner with colleges and universities, helping them optimize their financial systems, streamline business processes, and maximize the value of their Ellucian solutions.

• Provide functional consulting and support to higher education customers using Ellucian's Colleague Finance solution, helping institutions maximize system functionality and operational efficiency.
• Partner with customers to understand their business needs, evaluate existing financial processes, and recommend improvements that enhance efficiency and system utilization.
• Assist customers with implementing new functionality, configuring solutions, and optimizing existing Colleague Finance processes.
• Troubleshoot functional issues within Colleague Finance, collaborating with customers and internal teams to identify and implement solutions.
• Support business process reviews, requirements gathering, and application prototyping sessions to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Translate customer business requirements into functional specifications for reporting, interfaces, system enhancements, and customizations.
• Assist in developing and executing test plans and scripts for system upgrades, patches, enhancements, and configuration changes.
• Collaborate with customers to validate that system updates and modifications meet their business requirements.
• Develop clear documentation, including business processes, functional requirements, testing procedures, and user guidance.
• Support customer training initiatives by developing training materials and delivering functional knowledge-sharing sessions when appropriate.
• Partner with other consultants and internal teams to complete assigned projects within established timelines and scope.
• Build strong customer relationships by providing responsive support, practical recommendations, and a positive consulting experience.
• Support customers as they adopt new capabilities and transition toward modern, SaaS-based solutions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience working in a higher education Finance Office, financial systems environment, or higher education functional consulting role.
• Hands-on experience working with Ellucian Colleague Finance, including an understanding of its functionality and common business processes.
• Working knowledge of higher education financial operations, such as general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, budgeting, financial reporting, or related business office functions.
• Familiarity with higher education business processes and how financial systems support institutional operations.
• Experience troubleshooting functional system issues, evaluating business processes, and recommending practical solutions.
• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into functional recommendations or system improvements.
• Experience supporting system testing, upgrades, enhancements, or configuration changes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with customers, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to manage assigned tasks and projects, prioritize competing needs, and meet established deadlines.
• A customer-focused mindset with an interest in learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Preferred experience with Colleague Student Finance (Student Accounts Receivable) and an understanding of its integration or touchpoints with Colleague Finance.
• Supporting Colleague Finance implementations, enhancements, or optimization projects.
• Experience participating in business process improvement initiatives within a college or university.
• Exposure to SaaS environments, cloud-based solutions, or higher education technology modernization initiatives.
• Previous experience providing functional consulting, customer support, or training to higher education institutions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision.
• Flexible time off.
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests.
• 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future.
• Parental Leave.
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us.
• Telemedicine.
• Wellness programs.
• Headspace Care (mental health).
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes).
• RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support.
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups.
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team.
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program.
• Professional development opportunities.
• LinkedIn Learning.