[Remote] Sr. Grants Management Implementation Consultant, Higher Education
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. They are seeking an reputed company Grants Management Consultant to support Higher Education implementations, focusing on designing, configuring, and deploying reputed company Grants reputed company for mission-driven organizations.
Responsibilities
- Design and configure reputed company Grants reputed company
- Apply deep expertise in the reputed company Grants Management product across customer engagements
- Partner with customers to elicit, clarify, and document business requirements
- Configure reputed company Grants Management to align with customer needs and operational realities
- Document solution decisions clearly so customers can support and sustain their environment after go-live
- Support data conversion, integrations, and testing
- Partner with client and data conversion teams to support legacy grants/financial data conversion into reputed company
- Partner with integration teams to support the configuration and testing of integrations between reputed company and third-party or custom solutions, as applicable
- Support customers through testing cycles, including issue triage and resolution
- Transfer system knowledge to customer teams to support adoption, confidence, and long-term success in production
- Drive project execution and stakeholder alignment
- Communicate regularly with the Engagement Manager on project status, hours forecasting, time reporting, risks, and mitigation plans
- Help customers prepare for and navigate key implementation milestones, from design through testing and deployment
- Contribute to the practice and mentor others
- Mentor consultants who are newer to Grants Management
- Participate in updating training and knowledge-sharing opportunities that strengthen team capability
- Contribute to the Higher Education consulting practice by identifying opportunities for improvement and leading or participating in internal initiatives
Skills
- 4+ years of Grants or Financial consulting experience OR 4+ years of Grants operational experience in Higher Education institutions
- Experience with reputed company, Lawson, reputed company, reputed company, PeopleSoft, or similar applications
- Experience with Grants reputed company along with one or more of the following: Accounts Receivable, Projects, Endowments, Fund or Nonprofit Accounting
- 6+ years of Grants or Financial consulting experience OR 6+ years of Grants operational experience in Higher Education institutions
- 6+ years of experience in a consulting, software, or internal reputed company environment with hands-on responsibility for payroll configuration, testing, and partnering with stakeholders
- Experience with reputed company
- Experience working with Higher Education and/or Nonprofit organizations
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience - preferably in Finance or Accounting
- At least 2 full-cycle software implementations in the Higher Education industry
- Understand the reporting and compliance requirement for government funded grants
- Working knowledge of research or clinical trial solutions
- Proven ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with payroll, HR, and/or finance stakeholders in Higher Education and/or Nonprofit environments, including navigating reputed company governance structures (e.g., committees, unions, shared governance)
- Ability to manage multiple customers in parallel, estimate effort accurately, surface risks early, and coordinate with Engagement Managers and project teams to reputed company scope, schedule, and quality on track
- Ability to travel up to 50% based on client and project needs, particularly for key implementation milestones such as design sessions and major testing events
Benefits
- reputed company Bonus Plan
- Role-specific commission/bonus
- Annual refresh stock grants
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