Ellucian
Senior Banner HR Consultant
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Consulting
🗓️ August 7th, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Senior Banner HR Consultant to provide strategic, consultative expertise supporting Banner HR and Payroll modules for higher education institutions. The role involves partnering with customers to implement and optimize solutions, troubleshoot issues, and guide business process improvements to maximize value from Ellucian’s Banner products.
Highlights
- Consult with higher education customers on Ellucian Banner HR & Payroll solutions post-implementation.
- Support implementation of new functionalities and troubleshoot module-related issues.
- Monitor project risks, milestones, and coordinate customer activities to ensure timely delivery.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications and customize solutions.
- Lead business process reviews, prototyping sessions, and change management initiatives.
- Develop and execute test methodologies, scripts, and training strategies for customers.
- Requires 7+ years of experience in higher education business office or equivalent consulting.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with Institution Business Office functions and Banner or Colleague operations.
- Offers comprehensive health benefits, 401k match, flexible time off, wellness programs, and professional development opportunities.
Senior Banner HR Consultant Full Description
Senior Banner HR Consultant (US-Remote)
- US
- Services
- 6123
- Up to 25%
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
Ellucian is seeking to hire a strategic and solutions focused Senior Banner HR / Payroll Consultant. You will provide consultative expertise within higher education supporting the Banner HR & Payroll Modules. As a member of our team, you will be instrumental in consulting with our customers and delivering value-added services that provide the quickest path to institutional success. This role provides personalized and on-going guidance and support on Ellucian solutions and customer business operations post-implementation, enabling customers to maximize value from their solutions. The role works closely with the customer, building a relationship with the customer’s points of contact, understanding their business needs and the customer’s current use and knowledge of the Ellucian solution. The Senior Consultant works with customers on assigned projects to identify solutions to business and functional problems.
Higher education customers are transforming into modern campuses while leveraging technology and solutions to enable student success. In this mission critical role, you will partner with our customers to help enable their business office, including transformation to SaaS solutions and ensure successful adoption of these solutions.
*This position is based US - Remote*
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
Ellucian is seeking to hire a strategic and solutions focused Senior Banner HR / Payroll Consultant. You will provide consultative expertise within higher education supporting the Banner HR & Payroll Modules. As a member of our team, you will be instrumental in consulting with our customers and delivering value-added services that provide the quickest path to institutional success. This role provides personalized and on-going guidance and support on Ellucian solutions and customer business operations post-implementation, enabling customers to maximize value from their solutions. The role works closely with the customer, building a relationship with the customer’s points of contact, understanding their business needs and the customer’s current use and knowledge of the Ellucian solution. The Senior Consultant works with customers on assigned projects to identify solutions to business and functional problems.
Higher education customers are transforming into modern campuses while leveraging technology and solutions to enable student success. In this mission critical role, you will partner with our customers to help enable their business office, including transformation to SaaS solutions and ensure successful adoption of these solutions.
*This position is based US - Remote*
Where you will make an impact
- Provides high-quality customer consultation and support to Ellucian’s Banner product suite.
- Monitors, tracks, and reports project risks, issues, milestones and work completed, as well as work that is underway.
- Provides leadership for the customer enabling them to stay on time and on task.
- Partners with customers to implement new functionality into the modules.
- Assist customers in troubleshooting issues related modules within the Ellucian Banner product suite.
- Contributes to the definition of client engagement activities.
- Interact with the customer and other consultants to translate business requirements into functional specifications for conversions, reporting, interfaces and customizations.
- Assesses unusual circumstances and uses sophisticated analytical and problem-solving techniques to identify causes.
- Facilitates business process review and application prototyping sessions as well as providing
- Evaluates and modifies systems, where appropriate, relative to the customer business practices.
- Provide customers with high-quality business processes, change management and other appropriate documentation.
- Implements modifications and/or updates.
- Provide direction in developing testing methodology and test scripts for use during upgrades, patch application and customizations.
- Works with the customer to test and confirm modifications and/or updates meet specifications.
- Provides guidance in the development of user-training strategy, and when appropriate, delivers such training.
- Other duties as assigned.
What you will bring
- 7 years of experience working in a higher education Institution Business Office or equivalent consulting experience.
- Experience with business processes related to Institution Business Office and functions within colleges and universities.
- Experience with related business process and Banner/Colleague operations within Institution Business Office.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a self-starter attitude.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, vendors, and customers.
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.
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