Consultant, Higher Education

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel
• Engagement in annual process and workflows for operational budgeting, labor planning, and/or capital budgeting
• Involvement in tuition or fee revenue planning, pre/post-award grants administration
• Development of complex analyses such as program profitability, forecasting or similar, bringing together data from various sources
• Monitoring budget to actuals activity and/or communicating financial positions to stakeholders who are not finance professionals
• Experience with data input or outputs to your institution's ERP system
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines while providing quality results
• Highly organized and analytical, with the ability to adapt and think creatively to solve problems
• High energy, entrepreneurial mindset, and enthusiasm for being part of a growing vertical
• A continuous improvement mindset and willingness to contribute ideas and share insights
• Willingness to travel within the U.S. to customer locations up to 10-25% as needed
• You can wow us with
• Additional years of experience in higher education finance and/or budgeting
• Experience working within academic medical centers or schools of medicine
• Familiarity building relational databases, or using an existing relational database to create reports or other analytic tools
• Experience leading or working within a software implementation committee as a customer
• Software implementation consulting experience
• Experience in creating financial models, such as revenue projections, new program profitability forecasts or similar
• Estimated Salary Range: $80,000-108,000
• Find out more about Strata benefits here .
• How we work:
• Our preferred location for open roles is Chicago, IL. We value in‑person connection and regularly host on‑campus events to create meaningful opportunities for our team to build relationships and collaborate
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How you'll make an impact As a Software Implementation Consultant, you lead projects and work in partnership with our higher education customers to implement our exciting portfolio of performance management solutions, including Budgeting, Forecasting, Strategic Financial Planning, Tuition Revenue Planning, Commitments, Allocations and more. You will manage the day-to-day activities with customers across the distinct phases of the implementation process, including system design, configuration, training, and deployment. You will be part of a highly collaborative team of consultants with a wealth of higher education finance experience, working to translate business needs into demonstrable capabilities in the application and modify our products to align with specific customer requirements. In this role, you will: Lead multidimensional software implementation projects and develop valuable customer relationships Collaborate with customers at all levels (executive to end-user) to understand their business objectives and configure optimal software systems to fulfill these goals Train customer finance leadership teams on our software and our recommended best practices Train customer system administrators to maintain systems post-deployment and enhance end-user adoption Provide advisory services to help customers optimize their use of our software products Use your industry knowledge, experience and technical skills to design and build tools tailored to customer requirements

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