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K12 believes in Education for Any One. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better.

This Data Analyst II will join our Financial Planning & Analysis team and collaborate with other groups across K12's Analytics Community of Practice. The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in the tools and practices of analytics and will be eager to develop more advanced techniques as their career progresses with K12.

Day-to-day, this role will be responsible for completing a monthly enrollment forecasting process, as well as researching, understanding, and performing analysis on the trends within our business. This resource will evaluate performance of actuals vs plan, identify drivers of variance, and collaborate with our operations teams to recommend actions and improve results. The ideal candidate has excellent problem-solving skills, thrives in a challenging environment, is energetic, flexible, self-motivated, and is ready to take their career to the next level by learning advanced techniques from seasoned practitioners in the field.

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

- Create forecasting models and tools to understand the impact of trends within the business

- Perform analyses on the financial and business impacts of actual and future results

- Manage a monthly enrollment forecasting cycle, including running meetings, collecting inputs, forecasting outcomes, and sharing results with multiple stakeholder groups

- Analyze variances between actuals and plan, use insight to iterate on forecasts and push for operational improvements

- Extract key insights from complex data, deliver compelling presentations to assist Senior Executives and business stakeholders in decision making

- Provide accurate and appropriate materials to meet the monthly close timeline

- Perform financial support activities as needed in collaboration with the Corporate and Schools Finance group, internal controls, and business processes

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Business, Finance, STEM, or relevant field AND

- Three (3) years in relevant experience OR

- Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required

Other Strongly Desired Qualifications:

- 2 years performing procedural calculations using Excel

- 1 year creating dashboards and visualizations within Excel

- 1 year extracting and selecting data using SQL

- 6 months with any procedural programming language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, C++, Java, Go)

- Understanding of accounting processes, procedures and internal controls

- Strong capabilities within the following areas:

- Problem-solving / critical thinking

- Teamwork / collaboration

- Written and verbal communication

- Ability to travel 10% of the time

- Ability to pass required background check

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is an office-based position. The noise level in the office is usually moderate (computers, printers, light foot traffic)

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is 'at-will' as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the 'at-will' nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

K12 is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age,, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).

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