Financial Aid Functional Analyst
About The Position
Student Financial Services (SFS) is seeking a Financial Aid Functional Analyst to implement financial aid business logic in Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and analyze and improve processes that support financial aid and student finance teams. The position ensures PeopleSoft processes are working properly so students receive appropriate financial aid. Work includes configuring and testing budgets and packaging plans, institutional need analysis, and maintaining queries for internal and external reporting. The analyst will contribute to improvements in financial aid application review, awarding, and compliance. The role also oversees the Perceptive Content workflow used to track student-submitted forms and route them to the appropriate staff. The analyst identifies issues and opportunities through data analysis and collaboration with department members, gathers requirements, works with IT to develop solutions, leads user acceptance testing, and trains end users. The IT team has five members and works a hybrid schedule. This position requires two days per week in the office.
Requirements
- Three or more years of higher education financial aid experience.
- Experience providing support related to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
- Demonstrated proficiency in analytical thinking and process improvement.
- Experience with Oracle PSQuery or a similar query language.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent years of experience are accepted.
Responsibilities
- Configure the PeopleSoft Financial Aid module, including packaging plans, cost of attendance budgets, institutional need analysis global options, satisfactory academic progress, and formulas in the Equation Engine.
- Develop and maintain complex PeopleSoft queries for financial aid reports, system checks, and statistical data for SFS managers.
- Diagnose problems and identify potential improvements in the PeopleSoft Financial Aid module and Perceptive Content financial aid reading workflow.
- Monitor system processes for compliance with federal, state, and institutional regulations and policy.
- Work with financial aid administrators to understand business processes and identify opportunities for technical solutions that improve productivity.
- Maintain scheduled batch processes and run controls for tasks such as population updates, assigning communications, and loading external awards.
- Develop business and technical requirements for financial aid enhancements.
- Analyze, evaluate, and test software capabilities against user requirements and identify gaps in delivered functionality.
- Collaborate with developers to provide financial aid functionality, create test cases, and lead user acceptance testing.
- Educate and train coworkers on Student Information System processes and Perceptive Content workflow.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of system processes.
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Job Type
Full-time
