School Finance Manager – CFO/Director of Finance

🕒 September 6, 2025

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $93.6k - $125.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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EdOps

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

Education • Consulting • Analytics

EdOps is a company dedicated to supporting educational institutions through a range of specialized services, including finance and accounting, student data management and analytics, strategic consulting, and assistance with school start-up and charter applications. Their mission is to reduce the financial, operational, and compliance challenges faced by schools and to empower educational leaders with data-driven insights to enhance student outcomes. EdOps operates with a strong focus on operational excellence to further student achievement.

📋 Description

• Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools, advising these schools’ leaders and Boards on financial and operational policies, strategic decisions, and long-term financial planning. • Produce forward-looking financial forecasts, set budgets, and lead finance strategy development aligned with school goals and EdOps’s commitment to equity and anti-racism. • Attend finance committee or board meetings to present and explain finance strategy. • Analyze, model, and solve problems on a wide range of business issues. • Engage in client listening and proactively identify and solve clients’ financial challenges, or engage other teams at EdOps. • Provide development and informal oversight to School Finance Specialists and School Finance Analysts on school-specific processes. • Actively contribute to EdOps’s internal research, development and innovation of our finance product.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience excelling in a School Finance Management role (i.e., led finance function for a school, led part of a finance function in larger school organization). • Experience as part of a School Leadership Team or working very closely with a School Leadership Team. • Comfort with accounting; experience navigating accounting software and reading and analyzing financial reports. • Intermediate Excel knowledge (vlookups, sumifs). • Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills. • Excellent client communication and interpersonal skills. • Comfort presenting and explaining information to people with varying financial literacy. • Comfort interacting with, advising, and challenging C-Level leaders in schools. • Strong organization and time management skills. • General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite). • Typically, School Finance Managers have 10-15 years of work or post-secondary educational experience. • Nice to have: Experience leading audits.

🏖️ Benefits

• Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence. • Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts. • EdOps salaries are commensurate with relative experience and geographic location. • Check out other perks of working at EdOps here. • And some details on benefits here.