Sr. Student Finance Analyst

Company Description

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Job Description

The Sr Student Finance Analyst – COD Team is responsible for timely and accurate disbursement of federal, state and private student financial aid funds for all Unitek Learning schools. 

Job responsibilities:

• Monitor and maintain reports from Anthology, COD, and other related databases to maintain awareness of expected financial aid disbursements, refunds, past due funds, processing errors, or aging activities.
• Review Anthology exceptions and COD records to identify issues preventing the disbursement of Title IV funds.  Research and resolve exceptions in a timely and accurate manner.
• Initiate and monitor disbursement and refunds of federal, state, and private financial aid funds to student ledgers using Anthology processes.
• Evaluate aged receivables to identify issues preventing timely disbursement of financial aid funds.  Research and resolve process and eligibility issues to enable disbursement.
• Monitor inter-departmental requests and activities submitted through Anthology’s Contact Manager and respond/resolve appropriately.
• Maintain detailed reports documenting aged funds and reasons for non-disbursement.  Follow up as necessary to facilitate disbursement.
• Serve as first line of contact for COD Team Analysts with questions on policy or processing of complicated student records.
• Assist Executive Director, Student Finance with training of other Student Finance Analysts on the COD team.
• Assist Executive Director, Student Finance with testing and setup of functionality in Anthology and related student information systems.
• Other duties as assigned to meet business needs.

Qualifications

Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in the administration of Title IV student aid.
• Bachelor’s degree with coursework in business, finance, auditing or accounting preferred.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work as part of a team.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize workload based on urgency and deadlines.
• Knowledge of MS Excel, including pivot tables and simple formulas

• Recent experience with Department of Education COD system.
• Recent experience with Student Information System such as Anthology, Banner, or PeopleSoft.
• Ability to define problems, research causes, collect data, and recommend solutions.

Additional Information

We Offer:

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year.  Increasing based on years of service with company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on the program