The Company:
Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.
Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.
The Role
Outschool is growing its Finance team and is looking for a driven FP&A and Strategic Finance Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated FP&A experience setting and owning a budget, maintaining a forecast, building financial & operating models, and has a proven track record of working closely with business partners to help make sound financial decisions. You will join Outschool as a critical member of the team as we build and expand the sophistication of our financial processes which will enable us to effectively scale our business.
You’ll work collaboratively with members of every team at Outschool as a strategic finance partner. You'll partner in our budgeting and reporting process and help our team to measure performance. You ideally have experience in assisting in the development of comprehensive budgets and an ability to help leaders become more fluent in financial strategy.
Core Responsibilities:
- Support our company-wide budgeting and forecasting processes in collaboration with stakeholders across the organization in order to drive accountability and exceptional results
- Assist in maintaining a forward-looking financial model that accurately predicts performance and can be used to drive long-term growth
- Partner in the tracking of financial & operational performance metrics that allow Outschool to scale and grow
- Provide reporting and data-driven insights to our team, board, and investors on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
- Collaborate on key growth initiatives by assisting our marketing leads to scale new buyer acquisition and track customer acquisition costs (CAC), as well as be a trusted partner to our supply-side and international growth teams
Desired Experience & Skills:
- 5+ years of experience scaling FP&A efforts, owning budgets, and managing key stakeholder relationships
- A track record of building financial and operating models for a growth-stage business
- Demonstrated experience shaping and implementing financial strategies for public and/or private companies
- An aptitude and motivation to frame finances in the context of mission and social impact
- Exceptional communicator with ability to present complex concepts, recommendations and analyses to business leaders in a clear, concise and actionable manner
- An ability to think differently and the bravery to act on it. You push against the status quo because you see the gap between the opportunities of the future, emerging finance…