Workday Financial Aid Analyst (Remote)

This position functions as the Workday Student Financial Aid Analyst on the Workday Student team with Workday Support Services, reporting to the Financial Aid Functional Lead. The Financial Aid Analyst duties include, but are not limited to, becoming knowledgeable about Workday functionality and navigation, documenting existing processes, contributing to the design and configuration of new business processes, testing new and existing processes and developing training and communication materials. Completes hands-on functional and technical project activities and provides guidance to System resources. Demonstrates and explains key product features, documents requirements and design, provides knowledge transfer to the project team, configures the corresponding functionality, and assists in testing and supporting the implementation of new or updates to existing Workday functionality.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• The educational equivalent of Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education
• At least three years of experience working in higher education financial aid or related field
• Must be able to work collaboratively and travel throughout the State to various UA campuses to support any new acquisitions or ongoing training support needed by the campuses.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience in assessing, revising, implementing and supporting student Financial Aid processes
• Workday Financial Aid experience
• Experience with change management related to Financial Aid ERP systems or other large enterprise system deployments

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the process being transformed and an understanding of how the process/system integrates with other processes and initiatives
• Strong presentation, oral, and written communication skills
• Strong organizational and task management skills
• Solid analytical skills
• Effective management and team skills
• Ability to make decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis
• Ability to structure work efficiently
• Ability to provide direction and use interpersonal influences to gain goal alignments with results versus activity-oriented outcomes

Salary Information

$65,000

Constant Physical Activity

Manipulate items with fingers, including keyboarding, Repetitive Motion, Sitting, Talking

Frequent Physical Activity

Hearing, Standing, Walking

Occasional Physical Activity

Driving

Benefits Eligible

Yes