Job Profile:
Student Finance Analyst 2
Job Family:
Student Finance
Time Type:
Full time
Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Job Profile Summary:
"Provides guidance and support to students on intermediate to complex student financial operations. Ensure financial compliance with federal, state, local, international and university policies."
Job Description:
Position Salary: $50,000 per year
Evaluates financial needs of students from a variety of sources including documentation of financial status of students and interviews with students, parent, guardians, and awards financial aid.
Essential Duties:
Monitors or coordinates activities of subordinates.
Coordinates the administration of programs including the planning, processing, awarding and reporting required. Such programs include student loans/work study employment, scholarships, grants, under represented student programs, and continuing student eligibility.
Counsels and advises students about financial aid eligibility, application procedures, aid programs, costs, indebtedness, money management and financial planning and individualizes information to the particular needs and situations of the students.
Collects and/or analyzes financial data on students to determine aid eligibility and make general awards and awards specific to an area such as scholarship waivers or work study within federal and institutional guidelines.
Answers questions, concerns or requests of students, parents or guardians, or department staff in person or in writing regarding the specifics of financial aid options.
Reviews awards to ensure compliance to government rules and regulations looking for over-awards as well as under-awards.
Reviews and evaluates supplemental documentation or information provided in student appeals for adjustment or exception to financial aid awards and decides validity of appeals.
Compiles reports concerning activity of financial aid programs and initiates recommendations for policy or procedural changes.
Prepares and presents information regarding federal financial aid, scholarship, employment, and grants for various campus groups, high school students and parents at meetings and group discussions.
Develops materials and provides training in specific program responsibilities for staff, donors, lenders, agencies, and employers within guidelines of current requirements.
Collects, interprets and disseminates current technical information regarding specific program responsibilities. Interfaces with lenders, employers, donors, guarantee agencies, and/or staff; resolves problems/ issues for students with these entities.
Provides administrative support for analytical studies in fund utilization, student applicant trends and future computer programming needs.
Desired Qualifications:
Knowledge of government donor and/or institutional rules, regulations, guidelines and procedures for awarding of financial aid.
Knowledge of a specialized area of financial aid such as scholarships, work study, loans, grants or compliance.
Experience in working in a university financial aid office.
Skill in coordinating the work activities of others.
Experience in analysis and processing of financial data.
Customer service experience working with a varied population.
Experience in entering data accurately.
Experience in making simple calculations.
Experience in working with Microsoft applications (e.g. Word, Excel and Outlook).
Experience in working with the Internet.
Evidence of effective communication skills.
Evidence of a Bachelor’s Degree.
Working Environment:
Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding, and manipulating a computer mouse;…