SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Amplify Education is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to provide advanced financial insight, analysis, and modeling that supports strategic and operational decision-making across the organization. You will partner closely with executive and functional leaders in Finance, Product, Operations, and other key business areas to evaluate performance, identify growth opportunities, and inform investment decisions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as the primary FP&A partner for multiple departments, proactively identifying financial risks and opportunities and improving processes.
- Lead monthly financial performance reviews with department heads, delivering variance analysis, root cause assessments, forward-looking recommendations, and communicating actionable insights to leadership.
- Lead cross-functional process improvement initiatives, developing scalable workflows and automated solutions that reduce manual effort and increase reporting accuracy.
- Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and reporting packages that track key financial and operational KPIs to guide data-driven decision-making.
- Lead the end-to-end FTE reporting process for budgeting and forecasting, serving as the subject matter expert for workforce data.
- Drive data integrity initiatives by partnering with the People/HR team to improve cross-functional workforce planning processes.
- Define, propose, and champion system enhancements and data infrastructure improvements based on business challenges, performance trends, and strategic outcomes.
About Amplify: A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. The company has become a leader in literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent instructional system. Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- 5+ years of financial analysis experience within a corporate Finance or FP&A environment
- Demonstrated experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and project-based analysis
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
- Proven ability to analyze complex business problems using financial modeling and large data sets
- Experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership
- Ability to extract, manipulate, and synthesize data from financial and operational systems
- Strong project management and excellent communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple high-priority deliverables simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in the Education, Technology, or Publishing industries
- Advanced financial modeling expertise
- Familiarity with Salesforce, NetSuite, Pigment, Tableau and/or Looker
- Experience with 3-statement modeling
- Prior experience at a Big 4 accounting firm or management consulting firm
