Virtual Financial Aid Officer

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🕒 October 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Aquila

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Enterprise

Aquila is a company dedicated to partnering with software operators to enable their transition and achieve lasting success. They focus on backing category leaders in the software industry, facilitating their growth and development towards new heights. Aquila's mission emphasizes a long-term commitment to supporting these operators in realizing their full potential.

📋 Description

• Independently manage Title IV financial aid processing for students enrolled in clock-hour programs • Review FAFSAs and determine and verify eligibility • Complete awarding, packaging, ISIR corrections, disbursements, calculations, professional judgments, and dependency overrides • Apply federal student aid requirements and maintain compliance and accuracy • Review documentation, identify discrepancies, resolve issues, and support compliant outcomes • Communicate directly with schools and students across FAME's two service models • Explain financial aid requirements, information needed, and next steps • Communicate with assigned schools by phone, email, and virtual meetings, including monthly meetings • Provide updates on student financial aid matters and build trusted school relationships • Investigate financial aid issues, determine next steps, and move cases forward • Collaborate with the remote team when additional information or support is needed • Manage workload while meeting turnaround time, productivity, accuracy, and reliability expectations

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience working in a school financial aid administration department • Extensive knowledge of Title IV federal student aid regulations and compliance requirements for clock-hour schools • Extensive experience administering Title IV financial aid for clock-hour programs • Ability to complete packaging and awarding, ISIR corrections, verification, professional judgments, dependency overrides, disbursements, and financial aid calculations independently • Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail • Self-directed and organized; able to manage detailed work and meet turnaround expectations • Customer service and financial counselling skills • Ability to explain complex federal student aid requirements, eligibility, estimates, and financial aid offers clearly • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to build trusted relationships in a remote environment • Ability to manage competing priorities, follow through, solve problems independently, and collaborate remotely • Proficiency in Microsoft Office • Comfort working with financial aid management systems, student information systems, databases, and virtual collaboration tools • Experience with FAME's software preferred but not required • Must be based in the United States and work 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time

🏖️ Benefits

• Direct impact on access to education and student success • Opportunity to extend impact across a portfolio of post-secondary schools and communities • Opportunity to build specialized Title IV and clock-hour financial aid expertise • Opportunities to contribute ideas, strengthen processes, and influence service delivery • Room to deepen expertise, take on greater responsibility, move toward leadership, or explore other organizational opportunities • Full-time remote work • Virtual interview process • Accommodations available on request for candidates with disabilities