Consultant, Higher Education
About The Position
As a Software Implementation Consultant, you lead projects and work in partnership with our higher education customers to implement our exciting portfolio of performance management solutions, including Budgeting, Forecasting, Strategic Financial Planning, Tuition Revenue Planning, Commitments, Allocations and more. You will manage the day-to-day activities with customers across the distinct phases of the implementation process, including system design, configuration, training, and deployment. You will be part of a highly collaborative team of consultants with a wealth of higher education finance experience, working to translate business needs into demonstrable capabilities in the application and modify our products to align with specific customer requirements.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in a finance role (e.g., Financial Analyst/Budget Analyst, Senior Financial Analyst/Senior Budget Analyst, Assistant Budget Director, College Operations Manager, etc.), preferably involved in the higher education budgeting process. Your experience may include the following, or similar, activities:
- Engagement in annual process and workflows for operational budgeting, labor planning, and/or capital budgeting
- Involvement in tuition or fee revenue planning, pre/post-award grants administration
- Development of complex analyses such as program profitability, forecasting or similar, bringing together data from various sources
- Monitoring budget to actuals activity and/or communicating financial positions to stakeholders who are not finance professionals
- Experience with data input or outputs to your institution’s ERP system
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines while providing quality results
- Highly organized and analytical, with the ability to adapt and think creatively to solve problems
- High energy, entrepreneurial mindset, and enthusiasm for being part of a growing vertical
- A continuous improvement mindset and willingness to contribute ideas and share insights
- Willingness to travel within the U.S. to customer locations up to 10–25% as needed
Nice To Haves
- Additional years of experience in higher education finance and/or budgeting
- Experience working within academic medical centers or schools of medicine
- Familiarity building relational databases, or using an existing relational database to create reports or other analytic tools
- Experience leading or working within a software implementation committee as a customer
- Software implementation consulting experience
- Experience in creating financial models, such as revenue projections, new program profitability forecasts or similar
Responsibilities
- Lead multidimensional software implementation projects and develop valuable customer relationships
- Collaborate with customers at all levels (executive to end-user) to understand their business objectives and configure optimal software systems to fulfill these goals
- Train customer finance leadership teams on our software and our recommended best practices
- Train customer system administrators to maintain systems post-deployment and enhance end-user adoption
- Provide advisory services to help customers optimize their use of our software products
- Use your industry knowledge, experience and technical skills to design and build tools tailored to customer requirements
Benefits
- Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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