CampusWorks is seeking experienced higher education finance professionals who have led Ellucian Banner ERP implementations or re-implementations from a functional perspective. The ideal candidate will have experience modernizing financial processes, optimizing system configuration, and ensuring seamless integration between Banner Student Information Systems and Human Resources Systems at a college or university. Expertise with data integrity, business process analysis, and documenting procedures and processes are also critical for this role. Finance leadership in higher education may include, but not limited to the oversight and strategic direction of: GL/Chart of Accounts, Accrual Accounting, Budgeting, Purchasing, Contracts, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Grants Management, Fixed Assets, Student Payroll, Tax Reporting, Analytics & Reporting.
CampusWorks consultants engage with our clients in higher education to assist them in fully leveraging their people, processes, policies, and technologies. We work collaboratively with clients’ functional and technical teams and our CampusWorks colleagues to evaluate current processes, design future-state optimal processes, and to architect develop, test, train, and rollout process and technical solutions that delight our clients.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and the full adoption of technology to enable organizational operations and efficiency.
- Solid leadership skills, including facilitating diverse groups, creating consensus building and preparing the organization and individuals for change and ongoing continuous improvement.
- Business process review experience, including reviewing and recommending policy changes, staffing, and organizational alignment changes, and realignment of roles and responsibilities when appropriate.
- Demonstration of superior communication skills and the ability to provide a consultative approach to end clients.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating the diverse needs of functional areas, students, faculty, staff and leadership across higher education organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to map current and desired processes with detail showing the various process steps and who is performing each step.
- This includes mapping out very complex and at times dysfunctional processes that have arisen over time in an organization.
Experience & Education
- 5+ years’ experience leading, managing, or directing finance functional areas of an organization, including with Ellucian Banner ERP implementation or re-implementation
- Professional experience as a finance business analyst working with Ellucian Banner ERP within a higher education institution
- Experience overseeing banking and cash management, project contract billing, pre-award grants, and research at a college or university is preferred.
- College Degree Required, Master’s or above preferred
Top Skills
What We Do
Since our inception in 1999, CampusWorks has become a trusted partner of countless colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. We serve higher education exclusively, so we have a deep understanding of and appreciation for your institution's mission, vision, and values as well as the business and technical challenges you’re facing. Since we are not associated with any hardware or software vendors, institutions know they can count on us to listen to their needs, provide unbiased insights into their organizational challenges, and develop tailored solutions with their best interests in mind.
Our professional services team is comprised of senior-level technical and functional experts who have the experience and skill to take on your toughest challenges. Our services are rooted in systems thinking and reach across the institution—from Student Services to Human Resources to Finance to Academic Services—to remove obstacles standing in the way of success. We pride ourselves on the collaborative partnerships we form with our clients, and we value the opportunity to work alongside your team to implement change, achieve transformational results, and ensure lasting success.
Dedicated exclusively to higher education, CampusWorks’ capabilities include:
- Academic services
- Accreditation and compliance
- Assessments
- Business process optimization
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) support
- IT leadership
- Network and infrastructure services
- Project management
- Shared services and collaborative services
- Staff augmentation
- Strategic planning
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