Functional Coordinator, Financial Aid

Job Summary:

The NeSIS Financial Aid Functional Analyst is responsible to lead the administrative management of specific Financial Aid business function changes within the Student Information System (Oracle People Soft software suite - Campus Solutions), Data Warehouse, Enterprise Tools, and integrated third party modules.

Responsibilities include: coordinating core system functionality and peripheral system components, understanding and implementing functional support for new releases, conducting and managing integration testing, expanding reporting capacity, documentation, and training. May be required to work weekend/evening hours or during peak periods.

Functional Areas:

Financial Aid including:
Comments, Checklists and communication Generation(3C), Query Manager, development work in Application Designer and SQL developer, move code using Phire and Data Workbench, co-lead the People Tools upgrade new feature group, Load Testing member, assist troubleshooting contact as they pertain to Proofpoint, email, production scheduling, back up for eform/workflow packaging and other functional areas as assigned. 3rd part integrations leader Imaging (Perceptive Content).

This position will uphold the ITS core principles of outstanding collaboration and communication, a drive to succeed, a passion for higher learning, and acting with integrity.

Additional Info


About Us:

University of Nebraska employees enjoy a flexible benefits program allowing you to customize your benefits to suit your personal needs; paid vacation and sick leave in addition to 13 paid holidays; access to career-advancing educational programs, including and employee and dependent tuition benefit applicable at any of the NU campuses; and immediate vesting pre-tax retirement benefits.


Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree Business, Management, Computer Science or related field

4 years experience in student information/business systems; with 2 years having emphasis in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Knowledge and experience with Peoplesoft Campus Solutions

Equivalent combination of education and experience, that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may be considered.


Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge and experience with administrative systems in a college or university environment


Additional Information:

The ideal candidate is an agile professional with strong interpersonal communication skills, flexibility and responsiveness; exhibits high ethical standards; proficient in managing time and competing priorities; responsive and committed to supporting and motivating staff; committed to the ideals of a major public research university.


Special Instructions:

Please note: Sponsorship will not be offered for this position

This position is not eligible for an alternative worksite arrangement and is categorized as on-site. Once a candidate is hired into this role, hybrid work arrangements (defined by NU ITS as a minimum of three days per week on one of the NU Campuses in Lincoln, Omaha or Kearney, NE and up to two days per week remote) may be available for candidates who successfully meet minimum performance criteria during the initial probationary employment period.

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