Chief Financial Officer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Brains & Motion Education

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

📚 Education

👥 B2C

🤝 B2B

Education • B2C • B2B

Brains & Motion Education is a nationwide provider of year‑round enrichment programs for K–8 students, offering STEM/STEAM, arts, sports coaching, after‑school programs, summer camps, structured recess, and career exploration. The organization partners with schools and families to deliver adaptive, hands‑on curricula that emphasize social‑emotional learning and personalized instruction, and reports serving 1,150+ schools, 4,600+ programs delivered, and 93,000+ students. BAM focuses on experiential, sensory, and kinetic learning delivered through local sites and partnerships with schools, parks, and university facilities.

📋 Description

• Own finance for BAM!, including forecasting and planning, accounting and controls, cash management, and reliable reporting • Build annual budgets, predictive rolling forecasts, and long-range plans across a seasonal, multi-program, multi-state portfolio • Prepare Board-ready financial reports and KPI dashboards, including unit economics by program, customer/camp, and state • Lead pricing strategy and margin analysis for afterschool and summer camp programs • Build or support pricing and quoting tools used by Sales • Perform scenario planning and financial modeling for new states and programs • Partner with Operations on scheduling and labor-management systems, labor allocation rules, controls, and reporting • Establish trusted data flows from scheduling, timekeeping, and payroll systems into the general ledger and reporting • Provide investor and lender reporting, capital planning, and diligence support • Manage monthly close, GAAP-compliant financial statements, and scalable internal controls • Own external audits, tax filings, entity registrations, and multi-state compliance • Manage revenue recognition across tuition, camp fees, and school and district contracts • Select and implement scalable financial systems • Oversee payroll tax and employment compliance filings and annual ACA reporting • Review and approve payroll, including seasonal labor-cost variance reporting • Oversee accounts payable, expenses, reimbursements, vendor payments, approvals, and 1099 reporting • Manage consolidated financial reporting, intercompany accounting, and entity-level compliance • Forecast cash flow and manage working capital through seasonal cycles • Manage banking relationships, credit facilities, liquidity planning, billing, receivables, and collections • Oversee payroll funding and vendor payment cycles • Manage insurance coverage and renewals across operating states • Assess risk for new programs, partnerships, and markets • Manage outsourced accounting, financial, HR, audit, tax, insurance, benefits, and other finance-adjacent vendors • Review and approve customer and partner contracts for pricing, payment terms, cancellation, revenue recognition, and contractual risk • Partner with the CEO and counsel on legal and regulatory matters with financial exposure • Directly manage accounting and finance staff and outsourced partners • Partner with HR on labor-cost planning, benefits strategy, financially impactful policies, and seasonal staffing budgets • Support employment-related legal and compliance matters financially • Partner with the executive team on organizational design and cost structure • Prepare Board materials, financial packages, and strategic recommendations • Partner directly with the CEO on company strategy, growth investments, and capital planning • Represent BAM! in banking, audit, investor, and external financial relationships

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to the mission of widening access to enrichment for children in low-income communities • 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including as a CFO, VP Finance, or Head of Finance • Experience owning forecasting, Board reporting, and the accounting function • Deep GAAP and accounting fundamentals • Experience owning external audit and multi-state tax compliance • Hands-on accounting depth to review and challenge an outsourced provider’s journal entries and close • Direct experience managing seasonal cash flow, working capital, and forecasting through revenue peaks and troughs • Advanced FP&A skills, including forecasts based on enrollment, staffing, and pricing assumptions • Scenario modeling and unit economics by product/program, site, customer, and season • Ability to build financial models independently • Experience with multi-entity corporate structures, intercompany accounting, and consolidated reporting • Board-level financial reporting and presentation experience • Ability to partner closely with HR on benefits, labor cost, policy, and compliance matters • Excellent judgment and discretion with confidential financial and personnel data • Current, hands-on use of AI and other third-party tools • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field • Experience selecting, implementing, and integrating ERP, CRM, and payroll platforms • Experience accelerating the monthly close • Program-level or site-level cost accounting and margin reporting experience • Experience allocating variable-rate field labor across programs, sites, and clients • Understanding of payroll tax implications for a large, seasonal, multi-state hourly workforce • Seasonal, multi-site operating experience in education, camps, child care, or a similar business • Direct experience with government contracts, school district funding, or similarly reporting-intensive revenue • Experience managing outsourced or offshore accounting relationships • Experience leading complex reconciliation or compliance remediation projects • Ability to conduct numbers-backed cost-structure discussions with department leaders • Ability to travel occasionally for Board meetings, key partner relationships, and periodic in-person work with the CEO • CPA and/or MBA preferred • Experience with Sage Intacct, Salesforce, Paycom, and Bill.com is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual performance bonus target of 25% of base salary • Stock option grant • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • Basic life and AD&D insurance • Voluntary short-term disability insurance • Voluntary additional life/AD&D insurance • Voluntary hospital indemnity insurance • Generous PTO policy • Fully remote work • Occasional travel for Board meetings, key partner relationships, and periodic in-person working time with the CEO