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We are a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization and the leading provider of educational reporting, data exchange, verification, and research services. Serving the education, workforce and learner communities has been at the heart of our mission for over 30 years. Our work performed in a trusted, secure, and private environment provides numerous time- and cost-saving benefits to students, schools, administrators, and requestors. Education leaders rely on the Clearinghouses unique national student data resources to better understand student pathways and outcomes in order to help students succeed, and our research better informs practitioners and policymakers about student educational pathways and enables informed decision making.

About the Role:

The Senior Director, Financial Planning and Business Analytics (FPandBA) is responsible for overseeing the FPandBA department, leading and communicating highly complex and critical financial and business-related analysis to Executive leadership and across the company at all levels. This includes analysis related to budget, forecasting, pricing, product investment, customer and business partner engagement, as well as all associated funding proposals and actions. The incumbent will partner with senior and executive leaders to facilitate understanding the financial impact and key business dynamics are intended to yield and to help determine funding needs and appropriate means to allocate amounts. Furthermore, the incumbent leads the review of significant business proposals that may require in-depth business analysis or complex cost estimates. The Senior Director leads business analysis across the Company by identifying and managing the metrics and key performance indicators (KPI) reporting process to continually assess outcomes of prior investment decisions. The Senior Director regularly monitors the financial performance of business decisions so that proactive corrective actions can be taken, if necessary. The Senior Director leads the preparation of annual budgets and long range financial forecasts, including progress against plan and comparisons to prior projections, and recommends mitigating actions when risks exceed opportunities. The position requires deep business knowledge and insights as well as independent thinking and working with limited supervision. They will represent the Finance function in organization-wide initiatives such as senior management meetings, steering committee meetings, prospective funders, and Board of Directors. They will also lead the quarterly forecast process with executive and senior leaders, managing both the profit and loss (PandL) as well as cash flow and balance sheet forecasting, and preparing and delivering Board of Directors presentations. The position will be responsible for leading a team and managing the grant financial reporting process and engaging with senior leaders.

Currently, this is a remote-first position, and this position may be required to periodically work on-site at our office and the frequency would depend on the department/division's requirements. Therefore, candidates must either reside within a reasonable distance to commute to our office or be willing to travel to our office in Herndon, when required.

How You Contribute:

• Demonstrate the Clearinghouses competencies, which align with our corporate values. Manager will provide more detail to candidates as needed.
  • Senior Leadership Competencies include: Balances Stakeholders, Cultivates Innovation, Drives Vision and Purpose, Strategic Mindset, and Understanding the Business.

Balances Stakeholders:

• Deal effectively with conflict, reach agreement without damaging relationships and find win-win solutions.
• Develop and foster a partnership relatio ship with a diverse group of stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Provide critical financial, business, and operational visibility to the CEO, CFO, leadership team, and the Board of Directors and make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations.
• Partner with Senior management in setting direction and managing key financial priorities and executing successfully against those priorities.
• Balance the needs of various stakeholders focusing on delivering value added solutions and services. (e.g., work closely with the accounting team on financial analysis and ensuring proper reporting of financial data. Partner with Accounting and HR leadership as it relates to process improvement of time tracking, distribution code tracking and payroll systems.)
• Partner with service line teams to complete analytical work; create, refine and report service line performance metrics to management.
• Serve as an advisor to the CFO in managing the Clearinghouses corporate finance activities, including credit lines and other financial transactions
• Lead preparation and presentation of all Board of Directors communications, including annual and interim reporting packages, liquidity threshold analysis, and risks and opportunities frameworks.

Cultivating Innovation:

• Work closely, drive and lead key internal resources that will drive new business/solutions.
• Encourage and support creativity, ideation, and innovated thinking by staff and create plans for implementation. Views failures as opportunity to learn.
• Move beyond traditional ways of doing things and push past the status quo.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization and efficiency, and drive initiatives to enhance profitability
• Streamline the companys financial systems and seek innovative solutions to optimize, improve processes and generate efficiencies.
• Establish departmental policies, practices, and procedures that have a significant impact on the organization's long-term success.

Drives Vision and Purpose:

• Direct and oversees the Clearinghouses financial planning and business analytics activities.
• Lead by example with a high level of emotional intelligence and demonstrate a positive and intellectually curious demeanor about the Clearinghouses mission, vision, values, and opportunities for the Clearinghouse to provide value to the education community and learners.
• Guide staff on how they contribute to the company mission and vision in a clear, relatable, and optimistic manner.
• Demonstrate and instill our cultural values and transparent communication philosophies.
• Direct the rolling forecast, budget and long-range financial forecast processes with executive and senior management.
• Manage the grants from a financial perspective and collaborates with groups involved in setting and execution of grant management plans. Lead financial analyst on grant responsibilities and reporting requirements.
• Establish credibility throughout the organization as an effective leader, developing solutions to business challenges.

Strategic Mindset:

Review trends, anticipate future needs, and create a vision of possibilities for sustainable value and opportunities

Perform analyses utilizing internal and external data sources to support business/project evaluation, decision-making and strategy development.

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