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Summary: The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for providing financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting for multiple California Business Units. This position will research, collect, review, and monitor financial data in order to build timely and accurate financial models that are able to increase company profit through enhancements of operational efficiencies and resource utilization. This person is someone who has excellent problem-solving skills, thrives in a challenging environment, energetic, flexible, and self-motivated.

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

• Perform general ledger accounting and financial support activities


• Budget and cost reviews including analyzing variances between actuals, forecast, and plan, use insight to iterate on forecasts and push for operational improvements


• Update forecasting and budget projections regularly


• Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses


• Financial analysis and modeling - pull and consolidate large data sets, build models from scratch, and improve existing ones


• Provides accurate and appropriate materials to meet the monthly close timeline


• Prepare and present compelling presentations to Senior Executives to help drive decision making and profitability


• Documents key financial processes, identifies and implements process improvements


• Collaborate with business leads to summarize and analyze key data


• Ability to consolidate large sets of analytical data and present in an easily interpreted format to drive better business decisions


• Special projects - Lead special analyses and run projects to assist leadership with decision making


• Support Corporate Finance group with K12 and school financial policies, internal controls, and business processes

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or relevant field AND


• Three (3) years in relevant experience OR


• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required

Other Required Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge in several functions within Finance (Budgeting, Consolidation, Performance Reporting, and financial analysis)


• Understanding of accounting processes, procedures, and internal controls


• Strong research and analysis skills


• Able to work well as part of a team


• Possess very good communication skills - written and verbal


• Excellent time management and organizational skills


• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.


• 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 subject to the Stride work at home policies. The noise level in the office is usually moderate (computers, printers, light foot traffic). We are seeking applicants from the Simi Valley, CA area and around.

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.

Stride, Inc. 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.