Finance Ops & Accounting Manager

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $95k - $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Galileo Learning

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1001 - 5000 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

👥 B2C

Education • Non-profit • B2C

Galileo Learning is a provider of innovative and award-winning summer camps that cater to children from Kindergarten to 10th grade. These camps focus on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education, combined with outdoor games, collaborative activities, and creativity-inspiring projects. The company operates over 60 locations across Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle, bringing a blend of educational fun, friendship, and innovation to hundreds of thousands of campers over the past 20 years. Programs are designed by a diverse team of educators, artists, and engineers, aiming to unlock children's innovation skills and promote lifelong learning. In addition to summer camps, Galileo also partners with schools for extended learning programs, providing customized STEAM-based curriculums.

📋 Description

• Own Galileo’s core finance and accounting engine: closing the books accurately and on time, managing cash flow, providing regional leaders with the P&L insight they need to run great programs, and keeping the organization audit-ready and compliant across every jurisdiction we operate in. • Lead the month-end close process end-to-end, ensuring an accurate, complete, and timely close every period. • Prepare and post journal entries, including payroll JEs and revenue entries, and maintain well-documented support and reconciliations. • Produce regional P&Ls and partner with regional and functional leaders to explain results, variances, and trends. • Deliver monthly close reporting to the board, ensuring packages are accurate, on time, and clearly presented. • Build and maintain the weekly cash-flow forecast to give leadership clear visibility into liquidity and upcoming needs. • Oversee facility payments and other recurring obligations, ensuring they are paid accurately and on schedule. • Administer Bill.com for accounts payable — managing vendor records, approvals, and timely payment runs. • Lead budget meetings with regional and functional leaders, building budgets and tracking performance against them throughout the year. • Manage business licenses across all jurisdictions, keeping registrations current and in good standing.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field • 7+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including ownership of the month-end close and financial reporting • Strong technical accounting knowledge and a solid grasp of GAAP • Hands-on experience with accounting/ERP systems and AP/expense tools such as Bill.com and Expensify • Advanced Excel/Google Sheets experience • Experience with cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, and partnering with non-finance leaders on their numbers • Familiarity with multi-entity or multi-jurisdiction compliance: business licenses, tax filings, insurance/COIs, and audit support • Exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage many concurrent deadlines • Clear, confident communication and a collaborative, service-oriented mindset • Comfort working independently in a remote environment and a genuine connection to Galileo’s mission.

🏖️ Benefits

• No-cost medical insurance for employees (additional plans and options to add dependents available at cost) • Vision and Dental Insurance • 401k benefits after 1 year of employment • Flexible Paid Time Off - time off is not limited, and we strongly recommend that employees take time off to rest and recharge. • Unlimited free camp for your child(ren), OR two free weeks to be gifted (including AM/PM Extended Care) • Friends and Family Discount for Galileo Camps • Priority scholarship nominations for Galileo Camps • Generous parental leave and extensive support with leave planning • Employee Assistance Program, options for life insurance, and more!