Consultant, Higher Education

Use your industry knowledge, experience and technical skills to design and build tools tailored to customer requirements

What we’re looking for

• Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in a finance role (e.g., Financial Analyst/Budget Analyst, Senior Financial Analyst/Senior Budget Analyst, Assistant Budget Director, College Operations Manager, etc.), preferably involved in the higher education budgeting process. Your experience may include the following, or similar, activities:

• 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