Banner Finance Functional Project-Based Consultant

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