Financial Aid Systems Consultant

🕒 July 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Financial Aid Services, LLC

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1991

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

📋 Compliance

💰 Private equity on 2021-07

Consulting • Education • Compliance

Financial Aid Services, LLC is a higher-education services firm that strengthens colleges' financial aid and student business operations through consulting, training, interim staffing, and outsourced processing. Serving institutions since 1991, FAS focuses on optimizing enrollment, ensuring Title IV and regulatory compliance, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing the student experience. The company provides managed financial aid operations, thought leadership, research resources, and staffing solutions to colleges and universities.

📋 Description

• Advise colleges and universities on financial aid system configuration, optimization, and integration strategies • Provide functional leadership for financial aid technology workflows, reporting processes, and data exchanges • Translate regulatory and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions • Analyze, diagnose, and resolve system, workflow, and data-related challenges • Identify opportunities to automate processes, reduce manual effort, and improve operational efficiency • Support system implementations, upgrades, testing, validation, and modernization initiatives • Improve data controls, reconciliations, reporting capabilities, and overall system effectiveness • Develop documentation, playbooks, recommendations, and best-practice guidance tailored to institutional needs • Serve as a trusted technical partner to financial aid offices, information technology teams, enrollment leaders, and executive stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience with one or more higher education enterprise systems, including Banner, PeopleSoft, Workday, PowerFAIDS, Colleague, or comparable platforms • Strong understanding of financial aid operations and the systems that support compliance and student services • Experience with system configuration, implementation, integration, testing, and optimization • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills • Ability to assess current-state processes and recommend future-state improvements • Experience communicating technical concepts to functional staff, institutional leaders, and executive stakeholders • Excellent organizational, project management, and client relationship skills • Experience working in higher education technology, financial aid administration, ERP environments, consulting, or systems implementation projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Direct impact across multiple institutions • Opportunity to become a trusted advisor to higher education leaders • Exposure to a wide range of systems, technologies, and operating models • Ability to influence best practices across the profession • Meaningful work that supports access, compliance, and student success