Strategic Finance Manager
Kiddom
Accounting & Finance
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 8, 2024
About Kiddom
Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Drive monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and strategic budgeting; conduct scenario planning to evaluate long-term strategies, including ROI for new markets and products
- Revenue and Market Analysis: Build revenue forecasts and collaborate with GTM to analyze sales, market opportunities, and pipeline trends
- Performance Metrics and Insights: Define, track, and evaluate company performance metrics to align financial objectives with business goals
- Investment and Cost Management: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Content teams to evaluate investments and manage costs; track expenses and vendor contracts to ensure financial efficiency
- Operational Scalability: Support the growth of print operations; optimize financial planning for large-scale, multi-year initiatives while navigating the complexities of print and digital operations
- Cash Flow and Fundraising Support: Manage cash flow forecasts and liquidity planning; support fundraising initiatives and investor communications
- Acquisition and Partnership Analysis: Evaluate acquisition targets and partnerships for financial impact and alignment with strategic goals
- Process Improvement: Lead FP&A system implementations and identify opportunities for automation and scaling finance operations
What we're looking for...
- 4-7 years in finance, with a combination of investment banking and FP&A experience, ideally including time at a startup or similarly dynamic environment
- Bachelor’s degree is required; an MBA or advanced finance-related degree is a plus
- Advanced financial modeling skills, including experience building revenue forecasts and integrated three-statement financial models, with proficiency in Excel
- Hands-on experience in financial planning and reporting, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance metrics management
- Solid foundation in accounting, ensuring accuracy and comprehensive oversight of financial reports
- Familiarity with SaaS business models; experience in edtech or managing diverse revenue streams (digital, print, and services) is a plus
Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
-Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day:
-Competitive salary
-Meaningful equity
-Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
-10 paid sick days per year
-Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
-Paid family leave after birth/adoption of caretakers and minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
COVID Vaccination Policy
Kiddom policy requires employees to be vaccinated before they visit an office or attend company events..
We have remote roles but in certain positions where office attendance is deemed to be essential to the role, offers of employment shall be conditional upon proof of vaccination.