Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The College Board is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding educational opportunities. They are seeking a Senior Director of Strategic Finance to lead financial planning and analysis, manage expense management, and ensure strategic allocation of resources to support their mission.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the subject matter expert on expense management, ensuring accurate tracking, reporting, and forecasting of expenses
- Analyze expense trends across divisions and fiscal years, and identify opportunities for efficiency improvements and reinvestments that support our mission
- Collaborate with finance business partners to develop and manage budgets, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and sharp tracking of returns on key investments
- Forecast personnel expenses in partnership with HR and department leads, incorporating staffing plans and compensation changes
- Implement a consistent, transparent process for corporate allocation of shared expenses across departments
- Provide financial modeling and scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making
- Lead and manage a team of select finance business partners that are expense experts for their portfolios
- Set vision and priorities for the team; track and manage progress to goals; and provide coaching, thought partnership, and performance feedback to ensure team members deliver excellent work, remain engaged, and contribute meaningfully to our mission
- Cultivate an inclusive and high achieving culture that enables all team members to live out College Board’s Operating Principles
- Bring proven leadership experience and consistently embody College Board’s Manager Expectations in your work
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the strategic finance team
- Consolidate detailed financial data across divisions into comprehensive organization financials
- Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports that explain variances and highlight actionable trends and insights for senior management
- Prepare YTD and FY P&L analyses and summaries for presentations to the Board
- Design, test, implement, and maintain financial tools and software to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency, often in collaboration with the Finance divisions’ Operational Excellence team
- Provide oversight and ownership of budget structure and reporting setup in Adaptive
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and systems, leveraging technology and best practices
Skills
- A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics or related technical field preferred
- 12+ years of relevant and progressive experience in FP&A roles, with a focus on expense management plus finance business partner experience; extensive experience in financial modeling and quantitative analyses
- A strong understanding of corporate finance
- Experience with financial planning systems preferred, especially Workday and Adaptive Planning
- The ability to succinctly summarize complex financial analysis, present key findings to senior management, and influence decisions
- Project management skills and the ability to prioritize and independently manage multiple time-sensitive projects
- A solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement, with a willingness to iterate and adapt; the ability and willingness to both teach others and learn from colleagues
- Advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills. Proficiency in other Microsoft Suite Tools or a willingness to learn
- Exceptional attention to detail
- A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
- Evidence of skills and mindsets required to live out College Board's Operating Principles
- The ability to travel 4-6 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
- Authorization to work in the United States
- A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively
- Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
- A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input
- A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking
- A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success
Benefits
- This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
- All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.
Company Overview
College Board is a not-for-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy, BigFuture, and more. It was founded in 1899, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.collegeboard.org.