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About the Role
We are seeking a strategic, high-performing finance leader to join the FP&A team as a trusted advisor. This role will manage financial planning, forecasting, and analysis for a significant business area, setting analytical standards and developing scalable systems and processes.
Responsibilities
- Own the annual budgeting and monthly re-forecasting processes for your area of the business.
- Establish standard methodologies for short-, medium-, and long-term forecasts.
- Oversee the models and dashboards that support forecasts.
- Serve as the senior Finance point of contact for school operations and network functions.
- Partner with leaders to inform strategic and operational decisions.
- Drive fiscal responsibility across the organization.
- Oversee detailed reporting on performance, including variance analysis, risks and opportunities tracking, KPI monitoring, and trend analysis.
- Interpret results to provide management with concise, actionable insight.
- Lead the preparation of monthly financial reporting and presentation materials for senior management.
- Present financial updates directly to executive leadership and other key stakeholders.
- Develop financial impact models and sensitivity analyses for key business scenarios.
- Provide ad hoc decision support to the CFO, CEO, and other functional leaders.
- Drive operational efficiencies throughout the organization by automating tasks.
- Strengthen financial systems, controls, and processes to support consistency and scale.
- Establish and lead training for business partners on financial systems and budget management best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 7-10 years of relevant financial planning & analysis experience
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing a team
- Advanced analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
- Expertise building and working in complex financial models
- Strong understanding of financial statements including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
- Takes ownership of the accuracy and timeliness of deliverables
- Highly detail-oriented, while also balancing the big-picture view
- Adapts quickly to changes and able to manage multiple competing priorities
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly and accurately convey messages to senior leaders and varied audiences across the organization
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, and Slides
- Experience with an ERP system and/or similar reporting tools
- Highest integrity and ethics
- Intellectually curious and able to think deeply and qualitatively about business problems, breaking down issues and presenting solutions
- Holds themself and others to very high standards of excellence
- Takes pride in taking a high degree of ownership
- Positive, cooperative attitude; collaborative with a track record of building strong relationships and leading teams
- Entrepreneurial with unrelenting drive and comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Analytical and metrics-driven, regularly leveraging data to support business decisions
- Open, secure, and humble, with demonstrated resilience
- Passion for education and a commitment to the mission of Success Academy
Skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Variance Analysis
- KPI Monitoring
- Trend Analysis
- Executive Reporting
- Scenario Analysis
- Decision Support
- Process Improvement
- Systems Improvement
- Training
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
- ERP systems
- Reporting tools
Location
- New York
- Florida
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7-10 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000—$170,000 USD
Benefits
- Full benefits program
- Opportunities for professional growth
About the Company
- Success Academy Charter Schools is a fast-growing, high-performing network of public charter schools.
- We are committed to ensuring children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status.
- When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.
Equal Opportunity
- Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world.