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Student Information System Consultant - Student Financials

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Student Information System (SIS) Consultant

Are you looking to join a dynamic company that truly values their employees, offers great benefits, and has a “people first” culture? At ERPA, we encourage our employees to be innovative and welcome new ideas. Empathy, responsibility, passion, and agility are the values that ERPA emulates in the workplace and seeks in our employees.

ERPA provides ongoing functional, technical, and administrative support to customers, providing clients with real-time operational visibility along with the speed and agility to adapt to business growth and change.

Position Summary:

As a SIS Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation for our customers. As a member of our team, you will leverage your expertise to ramp up by participating and successfully completing the required curriculum.

ERPA is building a candidate bench for anticipated upcoming hiring needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Become a product expert by successfully completing and passing any required tests to obtain necessary certification(s).
Perform tasks as assigned by the project leader
Execute the day-to-day implementation activities for clients including process design, demonstrate configurations through the development of prototype systems, package implementation lifecycle support, conversion, testing, and project reviews with customer(s)
Work with customers to help convert legacy data into the system
Assist the integration consulting team in configuring and testing integrations between the system and other third-party or custom solutions
Collaborate effectively with extended team members which include functional and technical resources
Ensure customers understand and adopt best practices
Partner with project managers to ensure alignment across project plans and allocated budgets
Strive to suggest new approaches and tools to deploy the program efficiently and effectively to ERPA as we build our team to become an exceptional leader in the industry
Maintain all required certifications and qualifications

Experience and Education Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree or commensurate work experience required
Minimum 5 years of relevant SIS experience in higher education, preferably working as a functional consultant on a Student Information System (SIS) implementation
Substantial knowledge of Student Information Systems (SIS)
Previous consulting experience within Higher Education (college/university)
Previous experience deploying Student solutions, such as: Workday, Ellucian Banner, Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, SAP or similar applications
Higher Education or Functional expertise in one of the following areas: Financial Aid, Student Financials, Recruiting & Admissions, and Student Records.
Strong organizational skills are required. Must be able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
Employment is contingent upon successfully completing/passing all required certification classes and exams. All certifications must remain in Active status throughout employment with ERPA.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required, along with a detailed understanding of products, processes and best practices to make appropriate implementation recommendations.
Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a remote role, independently as well as part of a team

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job.

Applicants are considered for all positions in accordance with statutes and regulations concerning non-discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, non-disqualifying disability, veteran status, or other protected classification. ERPA is an equal opportunity employer, as well as a substance and tobacco free workplace. All offers of employment are contingent on successfully passing the pre-employment drug screen and background investigation which may include reference checks, criminal background investigation, and when applicable licensing verification.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We will not consider any applicants that require sponsorship for employment visa status either now or in the future.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!