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WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY Financial Systems Specialist in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. ALL INTERNAL APPLICANTS MUST APPLY BY:11:26:24Job Profile Summary: The Financial Systems Specialist supports and provides technical and functional expertise regarding the Financial Systems.Works closely with department staff members, functional leaders, organizational units, and subject matter experts to identify, develop, and deploy new business processes that enable teams and integrate all practices in a seamless and efficient manner.Establishes and maintains a positive and productive work culture. Manages day-to-day workflows and connects various teams who are crucial to student success.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Serves as a technical liaison between the department and EdTech, as well as other cross-functional departments. * Assists with the implementation of new processes affecting the department's office systems. * Assists with the maintenance of current applications and implementation of new applications. * Responsible for testing system upgrades and defining user software needs. * Trains and advises department employees on any updates, upgrades, or changes to Financial Systems. * Maintains the reports needed for reconciliation and auditing purposes. * Utilizes analytical and project management skills to gain a thorough understanding of department technology needs and translates these into specific initiatives and short- and long-range plans. * Develops and documents organizational content, practices, and objectives, including those for relatively undefined reporting or system initiatives. * Is widely recognized as a go-to person. * Formats and delivers accurate data, using programs or reports, which will enable leadership to make informed business decisions, as well as enable employees to better serve student needs and ensure student success. * Works with cross-functional teams on projects to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities. * Fluidly manages multiple tasks and responsibilities in a high-pressure environment and guides others on the team in collaborative efforts. * Develops and implements quality controls and departmental standards to ensure quality standards, organizational expectations, and regulatory requirements. * Elicits requirements and specifications through use of interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis. * Anticipates future demands of initiatives related to people, technology, and business within own department and designs/implements solutions to meet these needs. * Develops skills as a subject matter expert in database management, systems architecture, Excel, higher education systems and customer relationship management (CRM) system. Must be... For full info follow application link.
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