Student Finance Implementation Consultant
Listed on 2026-07-25
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IT/Tech
Business Systems & Technology Analysis, IT Business Analyst
Location:
Bristol / Manchester hybrid (regular travel to partner sites across the UK and Ireland as needed)
Role Type:
Permanent (full-time preferred, flexible working considered)
The Role
We are looking for a Consultant to join our Systems & Integration capability to lead defined Student Finance systems and integration work streams across our higher education partners.
This is a delivery-focused consulting role for someone who combines strong analytical thinking with experience of Student Finance systems and higher education business processes. You will take ownership of work streams, working directly with partner stakeholders to understand requirements, shape solutions and support successful implementation.
Working alongside Senior Consultants and Leads, you will help universities improve their Student Finance capabilities through business analysis, solution design, systems implementation and integration, ensuring solutions are aligned to institutional objectives and deliver measurable value.
Purpose of the role
To lead the delivery of Student Finance systems and integration work streams by understanding business needs, shaping practical solutions and supporting successful implementation across our higher education partners.
Key Responsibilities- Lead requirements gathering workshops with partner stakeholders.
- Elicit, challenge and validate business requirements.
- Translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements.
- Produce user stories, process models and acceptance criteria.
- Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead configuration and implementation activities for Student Finance functionality.
- Advise partners on best practice use of Student Finance systems.
- Support solution design decisions.
- Coordinate implementation activities across technical and business teams.
- Ensure solutions align with business requirements and programme objectives.
- Define system integration requirements.
- Work with technical teams to design and validate integration solutions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify interfaces and improve automation.
- Support investigation and resolution of integration issues.
- Lead current and future-state process mapping.
- Identify opportunities for operational improvement.
- Recommend changes to improve efficiency and user experience.
- Ensure business processes are supported by system functionality.
- Define test approaches and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate UAT with business stakeholders.
- Support defect triage and prioritisation.
- Ensure solutions are ready for deployment.
- Build trusted relationships with Student Finance, Registry, Finance and IT stakeholders.
- Facilitate workshops and design sessions.
- Provide advice and recommendations.
- Manage stakeholder expectations.
- Present findings and proposed solutions confidently.
- Own delivery of assigned work streams.
- Manage workstream plans, risks and dependencies.
- Produce delivery reporting.
- Coordinate activities across multiple stakeholders.
- Ensure agreed deliverables are completed on time and to quality.
- Contribute to development of PACT methodologies.
- Support proposal development where required.
- Share lessons learned across the practice.
- Contribute to capability development.
- Practical experience of finance processes and finance systems, gained within Higher Education or another sector.
- Understanding of core accounting concepts and processes, including accounts, ledgers, debtors or receivables, payments and double-entry accounting.
- Experience supporting the implementation, configuration, optimisation or improvement of finance-related systems, functionality or business processes.
- Demonstrable business-analysis experience, including the use of techniques such as as‑is and to‑be process analysis, process mapping, requirements elicitation and documentation, user stories, use cases and stakeholder analysis.
- Experience working within a structured systems implementation, change or project‑delivery environment.
- Experience collaborating…
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