Fast Facts

This role involves supporting pricing strategies through data analysis and operational efficiency within a collaborative environment at Ellucian in Reston, VA.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include coordinating pricing changes, generating reports for pricing performance, and supporting pricing tools and SKU management.

Skills: Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, proficiency in data analysis tools (Excel, SQL, BI platforms), and excellent problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 2-3 years in financial analysis or revenue management within the SaaS sector and familiarity with multi-currency pricing.

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $80,000 - $120,000.

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About the Opportunity

As a Pricing Operations Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our pricing strategies and ensuring accurate and efficient processes. The role will collaborate with cross-functional teams to review and operationalize requests to do with new pricing, SKUs and pricing tools. The role requires pulling data from various data sources, including Snowflake, assembling reports and producing analytics.

Where you will make an impact

• Coordinate cross functionally to stay connected to pricing changes and ensure changes are implemented within existing tools and processes
• Work with Sales to facilitate use of pricing tools and identify and resolve issues within the tool
• Monitor, review and execute pricing and price-related changes within systems
• Generate reports and dashboards to provide insights into pricing performance including margin and win/loss analysis, and recommend improvements
• Identify areas for process optimization and efficiency gains within pricing operations
• Assist in the implementation of process enhancements and automation
• Collaborate on pricing adjustments and promotions to drive business objectives
• Support automation and process improvement initiatives to streamline pricing workflows
• Support quoting processes by providing pricing approvals and guidance
• Add a bullet on pricing calculator – perhaps something like this: support pricing tools, ensuring they are accurate, user-friendly, and scalable
• Add a bullet on SKUs – perhaps something like this: support the product and services catalog (SKU management), ensuring accurate setup, updates, and alignment with pricing policies across systems (e.g., CRM, CPQ, ERP)

What you will bring 

• Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to produce relatively error-free datasets, reports and tools.
• 2-3 years financial analysis, analytics, or revenue management—ideally in SaaS.
• Proficiency in data analysis and modeling, with hands-on experience using Excel, SQL and BI platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Ability to distill complex data into actionable insights and communicate them effectively to various stakeholders.
• Good understanding of business fundamentals and financial models. 
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
• Experience working in a global environment, with familiarity in multi-currency pricing structures and international payment regulations.

What makes #Ellucianlife

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision 
• Flexible time off 
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Telemedicine
• Wellness
• Headspace Care (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups 
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program 
• Professional development opportunities

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