Director FP&A Technology

🕒 June 26

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Stride, Inc.

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Consulting • Healthcare • Education

Stride, Inc. is an innovative company focused on transforming education through online learning and personalized teaching. It serves a diverse range of learners including K–12 students, adult learners, military families, businesses, and school districts. Stride offers a variety of educational products and services, which include K–12 education solutions, career development programs, and personalized tutoring. With a commitment to social responsibility and inclusion, Stride aims to help learners of all ages achieve their full potential by providing flexible and effective learning opportunities both in online public schools and beyond. Stride is also involved in developing tools for educators and supporting businesses by offering career development options and access to a talented workforce. The company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol LRN.

📋 Description

• Lead the technology finance team in the execution of the management of K12 corporate finance activities • Serve as a strategic finance partner to Technology Senior Management • Translate financial results into operational insights and recommended actions • Assist in the direction of the financial management as it relates to enterprise roadmaps and staffing • Lead monthly and quarterly close processes for technology organization • Support executive decision-making through financial modeling and tradeoff analysis • Quantify impacts of investment changes, and cost reduction initiatives • Define and track key performance indicators and unit economics for technology investment spend • Develop metrics for return on investment and business outcomes for enterprise investments • Oversee the risk analysis and management process; Translate product and technology roadmaps into long range financial plans • Partner with technology leadership to assess financial impact of roadmap changes, timing shifts, and prioritization decisions • Support investment decisions, including new product development, enhancements, and system decommission roadmaps • Monitor workforce hiring progress, attrition, and capacity constraints; provide actionable insights to leadership • Lead business case analyses to evaluate build vs. buy vs. outsource decisions • Track utilization and optimizing licensing costs in partnership with procurement and technology • Oversee and manage the work and activities of all technology finance staff; Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team supporting technology functions • Ensure alignment with accounting policies and audit requirements • Partner with accounting to ensure proper treatment of software development costs (CapEx, SaaS deferred, OpEx) • Monthly forecast capitalization and amortization impacts • Support vendor negotiations and contract renewal planning

🎯 Requirements

• Ten (10) years of public accounting and financial reporting and analysis experience • Three (3) years of experience managing people • Understanding of accounting processes, procedures and internal controls • Strong research and analysis skills • Able to work well as part of a team cross functionally • Critical thinking and problem solving skills • Customer service orientation • Possess very good communication skills – written and verbal • Excellent time management and organizational skills • Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word • Ability to travel 10% of the time • Ability to clear required background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive a bonus • Health benefits • Retirement contributions • Paid time off