Peralta Community College District Oakland, California
Systems Analyst (Student/Financial Applications)
The Peralta Community College District is looking for a Systems Analyst (Student/Financial Applications) to develop and maintain mission-critical, district-wide administrative software systems.
The Peralta Community College District is a two-year college system, dedicated to providing comprehensive educational and community services to the communities it serves, including the cities of Albany, Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont California. The District enrolls over 25,000 students in a broad range of transfer and occupational curricula. The colleges in the District include College of Alameda, Laney College, Merritt College and Berkeley City College, which operate under the governance of a seven- member Board of Trustees and are administered by a Chancellor/Superintendent.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ? Performs business analysis and develops standards for student financial applications and related technologies. Trains team members on standards. ? Maintains and updates student financial systems configuration and tables to insure accuracy in computation of students accounts. ? Supports and manages the student financial enterprise applications in production, ongoing development, upgrades, and enhancements. ? Work closely with College Business Managers and Bursars to identify existing systems problems and implement effective solutions in line with business objectives, departmental goals, and requirements. ? Analyzes and reconciles student accounts receivable with subsidiary ledger and general ledger on a monthly basis. ? Manages the collection of student accounts receivable including referral to the state COTOPS program. Sends out periodic statements, sets up and maintains payment plans. ? Makes recommendations based on a review of historical data to write off bad debts. ? Supports projection of budgeted student based revenue and prepares reports comparing budget to actual, receivables to collections, and related general ledger postings. ? Writes business procedures and system manuals for student financial systems. ? Conducts training in both computer systems and operational business procedures related to student financials. ? Participates regularly in meetings with a user group that consists of key stakeholders associated with the student billing system to obtain input on system improvements. ? Provides general system support for staff, troubleshooting problems, and system setups; establishes timelines for processes (including tuition calculation and related fees, billing, disenrollment, collections communications, payment deadlines, refunds and 1098T filing); and participates in planning of business needs as it relates to College, State, and/or Federal policies and procedures. ? Serves as the help desk to resolve issues related to student financial systems or business processes. ? Reviews, maintains, and runs processes for all Student Financial Services related functionality; review processes and programs for integration issues; and collaborates with other departments as needed. ? Responsible for all system regression testing related to enhancements, patches, and fixes, bundle releases, interface changes, system upgrades; provides new functionality testing before approving changes in production; act as liaison between functional users and technical staff; and design and manage various output/reporting. ? Perform other related duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 1. Completion of a Bachelor?s Degree from an accredited college or university. 2. Two (2) or more years of functional accounting and/or student services experience with PeopleSoft and/or other student financial system products or any combination of education and relevant work experience that would provide the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of this position. 3. Proficiency with report writing, data analysis, querying, and other reporting tools. 4. Working knowledge of student/financial applications, as well as proficiency in the application of systems design and analysis methods, procedures and standards. 5. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively using both oral and written communication skills. 6. Proven ability to offer functional, technical solutions and designs to solve business problems. 7. Understanding of, sensitivity to, and respect for the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and disability and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.
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