Financial Intelligence for Higher Education

Ensure your institution is on the path to financial sustainability. Gain visibility into financial risks and opportunities when you analyze labor costs to more precisely inform hiring budgets and staffing plans. Or create long-term financial scenarios that help you understand shifts in financial inputs that can impact progress and alignment with your strategic plan.

Be the financial steward your institution needs

You need the right data at your fingertips to lead your institution toward financial sustainability. HelioCampus helps you gain a deep understanding of your #1 expenditure - your people - so you can allocate resources in alignment with your strategic plan. Plus see financial scenarios on a 5- or 10-year timeline to react more quickly to changes or fluctuations in your financial forecast.

Benchmark labor costs against peer institutions

Get a deep dive into labor allocation and costs when you analyze against job description criteria, not just department or function. We enable you to strategize ongoing workforce investments and initiatives to have more data-informed financial planning discussions with HR and department leaders.

Manage labor spend to contain costs or make strategic investments
Inform key financial processes, like annual budgeting, resource or strategic planning, with more precise data
Evaluate alignment with your strategic plan to demonstrate good financial stewardship and sustainability

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Benchmark labor costs against peer institutions

Manage labor spend to contain costs or make strategic investments
Inform key financial processes, like annual budgeting, resource or strategic planning, with more precise data
Evaluate alignment with your strategic plan to demonstrate good financial stewardship and sustainability

Learn more

Create long-range financial plans that forecast a variety of scenarios

Implement a long-range financial planning tool to evaluate multiple financial scenarios on a 5- to 10-year timeline. Check in easily on your base case to react more quickly to fluctuations, ensure you are staffed and resourced for your strategic initiatives, and demonstrate fiscal responsibility to your Board.

Use our innovative financial models built specifically for higher ed scenarios, like tuition sticker price, college-level staffing, etc.
Customize your scenarios to support the budgeting process and visualize targets aligned to your strategic plan
Ensure continuity via a centralized financial modeling tool

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Screenshot of a Baseline Growth chart from our Financial Modeling tool

Create long-range financial plans that forecast a variety of scenarios

Use our innovative financial models built specifically for higher ed scenarios, like tuition sticker price, college-level staffing, etc.
Customize your scenarios to support the budgeting process and visualize targets aligned to your strategic plan
Ensure continuity via a centralized financial modeling tool

Learn more

HelioCampus acts as an extension of your team to offer the financial intelligence you need to operate efficiently

Enterprise Technology Platforms

Our platforms combine multiple sources of historical and publicly available financial data so you can access in-depth views of your benchmarked labor data or financial models, when you need them.

Invested in your success

It’s essential to know the ins-and-outs of your top line item: your people. We conduct supplemental benchmarking analyses on budget models, ROI and student enrollment, to name a few, and present findings 2-3 times per year to help you get the most out of your membership and keep your investments top of mind.

Best-in-class data analyses

Our in-house data analysts work hand-in-hand with your team to understand and organize your financial data or job description inputs so that you receive the most accurate, precise analysis or forecast of your financial and operational costs.

Built for higher ed

HelioCampus offers a unique, user-friendly spin on financial intelligence as the only provider built exclusively for higher education. Our data models and financial planning scenarios can be customized to suit your institution-specific drivers.

Connect with your peers

Regular member meetings offer forums to connect with financial and operations leaders across institutions on topics driven by member feedback, like strategies for addressing the impacts of economic or workforce trends, and more.

How HelioCampus powers financial intelligence for forward-thinking institutions

Case Study
Learn how OSU analyzed student services labor costs to gauge impact on 6-year graduation rates.

Case Study
See how SUNY Buffalo increased long-term affordability from their hiring plan.

Case Study
Find out how Temple University measured how administrative investment levels impact quality of service.

“The HelioCampus team would ask questions and help us sift through the data as we got ready for the first insights meeting. Their team spent three months working on the data to help get it to the place where we could gather meaningful insights.”

Kelly Fox
Former Executive Vice President for Administration & Finance

“We achieved a cumulative $75 million in combined revenue enhancements, cost reductions, and cost avoidance for the period 2015 through 2019 while shifting significant resources away from administrative and overhead functions directly to student success.”

Mark Polatajko
Senior Vice President for Finance & Administration

“For Temple, the data were critical for strategically addressing resource allocation and avoiding across the board approaches to both budget cuts and investments.”

Ken Kaiser
Vice President, CFO and Treasurer

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HelioCampus gives you a clear line of sight into financial risks and opportunities within your institution related to labor costs, long-term financial sustainability, and alignment with your strategic plan. Let us help you uncover unseen trends and insights that can inform your annual planning, budget cycles, and workforce planning.