Manager / Senior Manager - FP&A

Company Description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve. For more information about Renaissance, visit https://www.renaissance.com/about-us/. Enable Student Success by Unifying Data for Educators Schoolzilla is a Renaissance product group living our mission to students’ lives at scale by enabling people to use data to run great schools. Teachers and school leaders need lots of data to make good decisions for their students, but most of them can’t get the data they need in any kind of useful format. Schoolzilla's team of engineers, data visualizers, educators with lived experience, and K-12 knowledge holders have done just that. We've made data easy to find, understand, and act on for school districts everywhere. Every day we live our founding values: Driven by Mission, Better Together, Teammates Matter, Equity At The Center, and Intellectual Humilarity (humility + hilarity).

Job Description

The Senior Finance Manager – FP&A will be a key member of the Finance team, leading critical areas of the company’s Financial Planning and Analysis function. This role will be responsible for complex financial modeling, leading of orders & revenue projections, establishing top line targets, developing, and monitoring KPI’s and other critical business metrics, sponsoring M&A and other integration activities, and partnering with business executives to drive growth for the organization. Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Actively manage long-range financial planning, monthly forecasting, annual budgeting, project based financial analysis, and perform analysis to top line performance.
• Provide in-depth financial modeling and analysis for a wide range of initiatives, but not limited to; product investment decisions, recommendations on business models, building of business cases, product pricing, product performance, and analysis of customer segmentation/division.
• Develop robust financial metrics to assist the company through different phases of due diligence with primary focus of top line performance with a purview to both subscriptions and services.
• Lead business analysis and operating processes necessary for monthly review processes, prioritizing areas of risk and opportunity, and advising key leaders across the organization.
• Proactively partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to develop and support strategic initiatives to improve financial results.
• Lead strategic initiatives such as M&A activities, pipeline analysis, developing of budget/forecasting tools, and other ad-hoc projects.
• Communicate complexities around financial performance to internal/external key stakeholders, with a focus on story telling.
• Maintain effective processes and best practices in modeling, financial tools, communication, and coordination.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting with 10+ years management experience
• Experience working in software (preferably SaaS) and/or technology companies, with a background in complex revenue recognition models
• Communication: Excellent written, oral, interpersonal and presentation skills while having the ability to work effectively with multiple functional areas in a collaborative, team environment
• Financial Modeling and Analysis: well-versed in the creation of robust, scalable, and flexible financial models and scenario planning. Takes a creative approach to this process
• Analytical and Business Acumen: Ability to dig into the details to analyze and understand causes of variances and then communicate the “story” to executives
• Leadership: Able to lead by doing, with hands-on mentality and ability to lead through influencing others
• Teamwork: Demonstrated success working cross-functionally to achieve key operational goals
• Outgoing, flexible, independent, forward-thinking with a willingness to engage in all aspects of the business
• Self-starter, comfortable in outward-facing situations with business partners and executives

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• MBA in finance or accounting
• Merger / acquisition planning & analysis experience

Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Salary Range:

• $90,400 - $180,800. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location. (We may hire at a Manager or Sr. Manager level for this opportunity.)

Benefits:

• World Class Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans, may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need into the future. We hope you're open to learning new skills to grow with us. Make our team, your team! Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. At Renaissance our mission is: “To accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide.” Inherent in that guiding principle is dedication to serving all identities by recognizing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in our organization, our work and our products. Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition. Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job