Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 25 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Performance Objectives
FP&A Systems Development 20%
• Serve as an internal expert on proposing, developing, enhancing and maintaining new primary financial data sources/systems used by teams at Educate!, i.e., Salesforce, Quickbooks, and any others
• Monitors key performance indicators in collaboration with product teams and overall organizational performance, to capture financial data against the identified key performance indicators
• Develop and maintain a scenario planning system for Educate!’s revenue and products that is aligned to product life cycle stages
• Partner with the CFO, IT and the broader organization to improve forecasting through automation and system optimization
• Builds peer network and stays abreast of new tools and techniques in the broader financial planning and analysis field

Financial Modelling 20%
• Be the project lead on all financial modeling activities
• Produce models to project long-term growth, accounting for factors that will impact performance
• Develops key financial data using visualization tools/dashboards that provide leadership and staff with access to data that is simple and easy to follow
• Cultivates a deep understanding of the ever-evolving systems, processes, and data upon which Educate! runs; and supports continuous efforts to improve financial data accuracy and quality.

Budget Systems Management 20%
• Support program and operations team’s budget development processes and budget reallocations; providing technical, analytical, and process support, and meeting the financial information needs of all teams throughout the year
• Lead a product facing monthly budget v. actual reporting system for senior management to facilitate decision making
• Evaluate previous budgets and collaborate with business unit leaders to build their annual budgets and forecasts.
• Supports the design and development of budgetary guidelines to optimize the budget processes

Grants Analyses and Reports 20%
• Manage multiple complex grant project specific reporting requirements and analyses by among others, creating automated reporting systems when grants are signed to ensure prompt and accurate reporting
• Collaborates alongside the External Relations team to help plan, manage, and provide analysis for complex grants

Analytics, Reports and Communication 20%
• Support Educate!’s reporting efforts with a focus on transformation of financial, product and grant data into key financial performance indicators, reports, and ad hoc analysis as needed, including: Bi-weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual relevant financial performance indicators by program, product, grant or region
• Communicate results and recommendations to the CFO and others in senior management that will lead to revenue generation, cost reduction and more efficient operations
• Develop dashboards and analyses for finance committee meetings

Qualifications
• Experience working in a company or organization that has experienced high growth – adopting new systems and structures as part of the growth.
• Comfortable working with data, numbers, and reports with basic budget management experience
• Strong orientation to team culture and cross-functional work
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, and/or a quantitative field such as Finance, Statistics, or Mathematics, preferred.
• 2+ years’ experience in management consulting, investment banking and/or quantitative or analytical roles.
• Ability to effectively multi-task; keen attention to detail and commitment to a quality work product.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities; exceptional listening, written and verbal skills; a keen interest in storytelling with data.
• Strong combination of analytical prowess, technical proficiency, and business judgment; proven ability to analyze complex datasets to summarize and present concrete insights; proven ability to depict data (and the story the data tell) verbally and visually.
• High degree of proficiency in Excel (Sheets) and PowerPoint (Slides) required, knowledge of Salesforce and data visualization tools is a plus.
• Passionate about financial data and analytics.
• A good fit with our Five Cultural Tenets (see “What is Educate! About?” Below; learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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