Description

Senior Financial Analyst (Remote)

NWEA has a new opening for Senior Financial Analyst. This is a full-time opportunity with competitive compensation and a generous benefits package. Candidates may work remotely from their home office located anywhere in the United States. If you meet the minimum qualifications and are interested in joining a stable, growing EdTech organization, we want to hear from you!

Position summary

In the Senior Financial Analyst role, you will partner with leaders throughout the company to create financial models in support of sales, resource investment decisions, and business strategy; evaluate pricing at the strategic level and prepare product line margin analysis; prepare and maintain a variety of scheduled and ad hoc reports for management review, including cost analysis, operating expense trends; and business plan development. This role requires a high level of communication and interaction with all areas of the organization. The person in this position will be a Finance Business Partner to one or multiple business segments.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the administration of budgets, planning and forecasting activities and various month end close procedures.
• Analyze the organization's profitability components in new and different ways. Use financial and operational data to drive improvements.
• Support the business in understanding the costs of their products, including development, sales, and support costs.
• Further the organization's understanding of the profitability of current and proposed product portfolios.
• Assist with business case analysis of new products, scenario analysis, and business change opportunities; analyze financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment and pricing decisions.
• Work with all levels of the company to become an internal expert on our organization's cost and revenue drivers as well as key operational components.
• Assist in the preparation of presentations for Executive management, budgets, and other planning and forecasting activities
• Other operational and production duties as assigned to ensure success of the Finance team and the organization.

Skills and abilities

• Working ability with Adaptive Insights and or NetSuite highly preferred.
• Exceptional skills in partnering with key stakeholders across functional areas, and in developing and maintaining long term supportive relationships.
• Proficiency in financial modeling and quantitative analysis, plus the ability to creatively apply financial knowledge based on context of the business problem.
• Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office software with specific expertise in Excel.
• An ability to understand the business dynamics related to our product delivery and business operations, and their impact on financial results.
• Demonstrated ability to present complex ideas with clarity.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with many priority changes working on multiple projects simultaneously

Competencies

• Instill trust: gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Communicate effectively: develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Customer focus: build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Drive results: consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances
• Situational adaptability: adapt approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
• Manage complexity: make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Optimize work processes: know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Financial acumen: interpret and apply understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
• Business insight: apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals

Education and experience

• A four-year bachelor's degree with emphasis in Finance, Economics, or Accounting is required. A Master's Degree in Business or Economics is preferred.
• 5 to 7 years in a commercial business environment as a Financial Analyst or similar role.
• Experience in the business dynamics of the EdTech, technology, or assessment industries is a plus.

About Us

NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that precisely measure growth and proficiency-and provide timely data to help tailor instruction. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K-12 assessments, including our flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™; our progress monitoring and skills mastery tool, MAP® Skills™; and our reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. Educators trust our professional learning offerings to accelerate student learning and our research to support assessment validity and data interpretation. More than 11 million students in 146 countries use our solutions to support their learning and growth each year.

What we can offer you

At NWEA we not only offer a competitive base salary, we offer a 15% contribution of eligible employees' base salary to a defined contribution 403(b) retirement savings plan; career development opportunities; an awesome work culture and environment; we also offer industry leading benefits and perks that are focused on supporting our employees' holistic wellbeing. To learn more about what we can offer more, click here.

NWEA strives to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices the center of our work. Our organization's mission, Partnering to Help All Kids Learn, is the foundation for our DEIA commitment as we work to reflect, value, and support the educators, students, colleagues, and communities we serve. We seek to empower and engage all stakeholders in the research, services, solutions, and products we provide, our organizational culture, and the partnerships we establish with schools, districts, states, and countries.

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NWEA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. For our EEO Policy Statement, please visit our website. If you'd like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please visit the EEOC website