Ellucian
Colleague Business Analyst Associate
🇺🇸 Mt Laurel, NJ
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Information Technology
🗓️ July 17th, 2025
MySQL
SaaS
SQL
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Colleague Business Analyst Associate who will consult with end users to optimize business processes using the Colleague ERP system. The role involves providing functional and technical support, troubleshooting, training, and collaborating with clients and technical teams to enhance the deployment and integration of Colleague Finance and HR modules.
Highlights
- Consult with end users to improve efficiency using the Colleague ERP system.
- Provide functional and technical support including troubleshooting and training for Colleague Finance and HR modules.
- Conduct business process analysis and recommend improvements.
- Develop test transactions, perform testing, and create documentation using Monday.com and Confluence.
- Work with project management and technical teams to support successful deployment of initiatives.
- Expertise required in Colleague ERP, SQL/MySQL databases, JavaScript, and web technologies including HTML, CSS, and front-end frameworks.
- Proficiency in designing APIs and system integrations for seamless data exchange.
- Must have strong communication skills and ability to gather and translate client requirements.
- Compensation details not provided.
- At least 1 year of experience with Colleague ERP and skills in client/server architecture, relational databases, and system administration.
Colleague Business Analyst Associate Full Description
Colleague Business Analyst Associate (Colleague ERP/JavaScript exp REQUIRED, Onsite Rowan College, NJ)
- 100 Technology Way Office of Information Technology, Evans Hall, Mt Laurel, New Jersey, US, 8054
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About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
As a Colleague Business Analyst Associate, your main responsibility will be to consult with end users, understand and optimize business processes and assist them in becoming more efficient and effective utilizing the Colleague ERP system, driving student success.
Where you will make an impact
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
As a Colleague Business Analyst Associate, your main responsibility will be to consult with end users, understand and optimize business processes and assist them in becoming more efficient and effective utilizing the Colleague ERP system, driving student success.
Where you will make an impact
- Provide functional and technical assistance by responding to inquiries regarding errors, problems, or questions with programs, processes, and reporting
- Provide functional business process analysis and redesign assistance by partnering with customer business units and appropriately recommending efficiencies and improvements
- Troubleshoot errors and issues encountered by end users and provide resolution to solve issue to client’s satisfaction
- Provide on-site training and workflow sessions for Colleague Finance and HR Modules
- Partner with manager, site TM staff, and on-site client end users to gather requirements about business process flow, application intent, functions, features, data, input, and output requirements, internal and external checks and controls, hardware and operating system environment and interfaces with other systems.
- Create test transactions and runs tests to find errors and confirm program meets specifications.
- Assist client with identifying data integration points and functional dependencies within the Colleague ERP system and / to third party systems.
- Advise on key communication needs for Colleague modules and maintenance upgrades and provides input and direction for remote Colleague resources.
- Work closely with project management and remote technical teams to support successful deployment of initiatives and business process analysis efforts
- Work with the client to develop functional requirements and data mapping specifications.
- Create and update ticket tracking system (Happy Fox) with pertinent information.
- Write and maintain documentation of changes to business processes, knowledge base, and functional specifications using Monday.com and Confluence.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs and system integrations to enable seamless data exchange across internal and third-party platforms.
What you will bring
- 1+ years of experience and expert functional/technical knowledge in the Colleague ERP application
- Proven experience and strong proficiency in working with relational databases like MySQL and SQL-based systems.
- Thorough technical knowledge in development of methodologies, design, and implementation of workflows related to Colleague.
- Proficiency in JavaScript and familiarity with other web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and modern front-end frameworks.
- Understanding of specialty areas such as client/server architecture, relational database design, document imaging, job scheduling, systems administration, or a combination of areas.
- Effective skills in research and analysis, project planning, and implementation.
- Good understanding of entire development and implementation process, including specification, documentation and quality assurance.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships with clients, co-workers, and vendors.
- Excellent decision-making, time-management, and planning skills.
- Customer-centric approach to problem-solving.
- Experience working with clients to gather requirements for developing software.
- Must be a self-starter and motivated to move projects forward.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a highly demanding environment.
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly. Additionally, we are aware of fake applicant schemes and have rigorous internal processes in place to mitigate such risk and inform proper authorities of any such instances that arise.
