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Financial Intelligence for Higher Education

Ensure your institution is on the path to financial sustainability with precision insights to guide budget cycles, workforce allocation, and strategic planning.

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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 establish a single source of truth to monitor the direct cost of instruction and improve real-time decision-making across departments.

Financial Intelligence Products

Get access to benchmarked labor data, understand the margin profile of academic programs to manage your portfolio, and join a finance community of practice that can help you plan for a variety of scenarios, understand costs, mitigate risks, and chart a path to your mission.

Benchmark labor costs against member institutions

Benchmarking Consortium

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 compare ongoing workforce investments among internal departments and with other member 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

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Uncover academic programming opportunities

Academic Performance Management

Understand and manage the cost of instruction for your institution so you can better address budget deficits, identify efficiencies, and optimize faculty assignments and non-teaching activities. 

  • Gain visibility into instructional costs and margins to inform academic planning

  • Identify trends in course demand or enrollment within academic departments
  • Maximize instructor capacity across teaching and non-teaching activities

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Benchmark labor costs against member institutions

Benchmarking Consortium

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 compare ongoing workforce investments among internal departments and with other member 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 about Benchmarking Consortium

Dashboard view of HelioCampus Benchmarking Consortium data

Uncover academic programming opportunities

Academic Performance Management

Understand and manage the cost of instruction for your institution so you can better address budget deficits, identify efficiencies, and optimize faculty assignments and non-teaching activities. 

  • Gain visibility into instructional costs and margins to inform academic planning

  • Identify trends in course demand or enrollment within academic departments
  • Maximize instructor capacity across teaching and non-teaching activities

Learn More about Academic Performance Management

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HelioCampus acts as an extension of your team to help you operate with financial efficiency

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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.

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Invested in your success

Our team conducts supplemental analyses 2-3 times per year on budget models, ROI, staffing intensity, and more so you can get the most out of your membership and keep your investments top of mind.

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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.

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Built for higher ed

Only HelioCampus is built specifically for higher education and offers a unique, user-friendly spin on academic portfolio review. Our data models and financial planning scenarios can be customized to suit institution-specific drivers, levers, and definitions.

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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.

See how HelioCampus can achieve your financial sustainability goals

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See HelioCampus Financial Intelligence in action at forward-thinking institutions

Reimagining Workforce Planning

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6 ways to use labor cost benchmarking to support financial decision-making

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HelioCampus gives you a clear line of sight into financial risks and opportunities within your institution. Let us help you uncover unseen trends and insights to better inform budget cycles, workforce allocation, and strategic planning.

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