Financial Aid Analyst #12106

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree and two (2) years of experience in higher education.
• SQL experience.
• Proficiency in PeopleSoft, MS Office, and other reporting tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gathers, analyzes, and reports on financial aid data to track trends, measure outcomes, and support decision-making and ensure compliance with all federal, state, and institutional regulations, policies and procedures.
• Provides technical SIS support, designs, tests and maintain reports, queries and dashboards, and reviews business processes from end-to-end to identify operational, financial, and student satisfaction efficiencies and optimizations.
• Assist in the operational maintenance and data integrity of the systems and databases, develop standardized practices for importing, cleaning, transforming and validating data.
• Manage the data exchanges with vendors, use data and system analysis to identify opportunities in existing business practices to improve business processes.
• Generates processes for award letters, rejected ISIR letters, outstanding document letters/emails, book vouchers, etc.
• Gather requirements and produce specifications for a new system and/or modifications to current systems, databases, and third-party integrations.
• Proactively establish reports and strategies to enhance student experience.
• Analyzes Financial Aid regulations and legislation to ensure compliance.
• Creates ad hoc reports for the Financial Aid Services Office and other areas upon request.
• Assists the Executive Director with analysis, preparation, and compilation of information for financial aid reports and audits.
• Works overtime during peak periods as needed and is available at other times during the year as deemed necessary by the Executive Director.
• Other duties and special project as assigned and directed by the President or their designee.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Demonstrated expert level computing skills and technological proficiency with database and data manipulation products.
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing and recommending significant improvements in departmental operations.
• Must develop comprehensive knowledge of Federal, State, and Institutional Financial Aid regulations.
• Ability to effectively communicate with students and College personnel.
• Strong conceptual, logical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to remain flexible, navigate change, and meet objectives within limited time frames.
• Candidates must possess unquestioned personal and professional ethical standards.
• Ability to thrive in fast paced environment where expectations for performance and productivity are high.
• Excellent time management and follow-up on tasks.

This position may be subject to a criminal background screening as a condition of employment.

If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Human Resources at 386-506-4505 or email HR@daytonastate.edu.

Daytona State College is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer. Click here to view the College’s statement of non-discrimination.