Manager, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis
Job Description
The Role
The Manager, Finance Manager G&A will develop and manage Newsela’s long-range financial planning process, ensuring that it is aligned with our overall business’ long-term strategic plan. As a leader in our growing FP&A team, you’ll help lead and build our Corporate FP&A function, and will oversee activities ranging from managing the financial close process to building financial forecasts and refining our financial and operating models. You’ll partner closely with our Accounting, BI, and Leadership teams to develop and automate corporate, investor, and executive reporting. You will also support our forecasting process, including target and KPI setting, and assessing the risks and opportunities of ongoing monthly and quarterly forecasts.
Why You’ll Love This Role
In this role, you will gain invaluable experience with visibility into Newsela’s business & operations and have a large impact within a growing Finance organization. You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact on the strategic decision-making and trajectory of the organization and dive deep into analytics critical to our company’s success. You will be at the center of financial analytics at Newsela and will have significant exposure to the Finance leadership team, as well as Newsela’s Executive leadership. Within our high-growth company, you will be joining a very tight-knit Finance team that is committed to building out a best-in-class operational and analytical function. You’ll have the opportunity to help define the coordination and communication across our financial functions and within the rest of the organization. Your work will help ensure the growth of a business that is transforming the way students learn through accessible, engaging learning content.
Why We’ll Love You
You have FP&A experience, preferably in a high-growth SaaS environment in a Corporate FP&A role. You have demonstrated success in building long range planning and cash flow models, and are competent in working with data, programming languages, and automation tools (SQL, Python, Looker, Tableau, Alteryx, etc.). Additionally, you’re experienced in using financial systems (Adaptive insights, NetSuite, etc.), and have advanced skills in Excel, Google Sheets, and GSuite. You are well-versed in financial modeling, with the ability to identify key model drivers and build complex financial models, as well as operational models to forecast the future with accuracy. You have a track record of maintaining and improving business processes, and ideally have designed and implemented new processes from scratch. You are driven by metrics, and strive to partner across the organization to help add value to the business wherever possible. You are a trusted advisor with exceptional communication skills, able to translate complex financial concepts across a variety of audiences.
About Newsela
One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels — from +100 of the best sources — that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.
