# Student Financial Aid Consultant

**Company**: Workday
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $117,000 USD - $175,400 USD
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Student Financial Aid Consultant to join our Higher Ed/Nonprofit Functional Consulting team. As a consultant, you will work with colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations to design and deliver Workday solutions, primarily focusing on Financial Aid and Student Financials. Your responsibilities will include:

- Becoming familiar with the touchpoints between Financial Aid, Student Financials, and other areas of the Workday product suite

- Gathering client business requirements related to financial aid packaging, awarding, compliance, and disbursement

- Configuring the Workday solution to improve the user, student, and administrator experience

- Demonstrating configurations through prototype systems

- Assisting clients in testing the Workday solution

- Assisting the integration consulting team in configuring and testing integrations with third-party/custom solutions

- Understanding and utilizing Workday's Implementation Methodology

- Working with clients to convert legacy financial aid and student financials data into Workday

- Partnering with the Engagement Manager to plan project activities and timelines

- Participating in update training and sharing product skills with other consultants

The ideal candidate will have strong Student Financial Aid expertise and leadership experience, with a collaborative approach to delivery. Previous Workday experience as a consultant, user, or administrator is strongly preferred.

**Requirements:**

- 6+ years of experience with Workday, Banner, PeopleSoft, PowerFAIDS, or similar Financial Aid/Student Information Systems

- 6+ years of functional experience in Financial Aid, ideally including leadership experience

- Strong technical aptitude with systems and software, beyond functional/policy knowledge alone

- Demonstrated curiosity and comfort with AI-powered tools

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Prior consulting experience

- Working knowledge of Student Financials processes

- Deep knowledge of Title IV federal regulations, Return to Title IV (R2T4), Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), and financial aid packaging methodologies

- Experience with federal and state financial aid systems

- Industry experience in Higher Education

- Strong client-facing communication, presentation, and consulting skills

## Skills

### Required
- Workday
- Financial Aid
- Student Information Systems
- AI-powered tools

### Nice to have
- Consulting
- Student Financials
- Title IV federal regulations
- Return to Title IV (R2T4)
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)

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