As an FP&A Manager at Skillshare, we’ll look to your expertise leveraging data to provide key financial insights that drive the company’s strategic decisions, financial forecasts, and operating plans. Reporting to the Controller/Director of Finance, you’ll work closely with the CEO, executive team and departmental stakeholders to ensure we’re making the best decisions possible for the business – which means opportunity for impact and exposure across the board. 

What you do day-to-day:

• Facilitate the annual budget and monthly forecast process, including analysis of consolidated subscriber growth and revenue projections and preparing board and management-level presentations
• Manage departmental cost center budgets and serve as a finance business partner to the respective budget owners
• Work closely with the accounting team to understand and analyze historical financial performance, as well as our Data & Insights team to model our subscriber growth and retention (and ensure that we are following data best practices)
• Work cross-functionally with various business and operational teams to analyze and incorporate go-forward business decisions into the financial rolling forecast model
• Provide ad hoc analysis and modeling to support ongoing business decisions as requested
• Establish a deep understanding of the business and leverage data to build insights about our markets, products and competitors
• Develop and deliver robust, consistent and accurate analysis of business performance using KPI dashboards and non-financial data to highlight performance
• Analyze data and facilitate sound management decisions through financial and metric reporting while highlighting material variances, trends, & risks/opportunities, and providing insightful commentary to the business and partners
• Support the Director in the development and ongoing improvement of the FP&A function, including driving consistency and improvement in business analysis and reporting

What you'll need to be successful:

• Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Demonstrated ability to manipulate and model large volumes of data, interpret and identify pertinent issues, and communicate out insights in a meaningful and concise manner
• Excel wizardry – advanced formulas; pivot tables; modeling, etc.
• Advanced experience with SQL and large data sets
• Hands-on experience with one of the major BI tools (Chartio, Looker, etc.) is a major plus
• Ability to work cross-functionally and guide non-finance teams with robust data and analysis
• Investment banking experience highly preferred but not required

Why you want this job:

• Impact: Leveraging and understanding our financial data is at the heart of our growth – your insights will be the foundation for many of our most strategic business decisions.
• Exposure: You will have a lot of exposure to the executive team and core operations of the company.
• Our growth: Skillshare is growing rapidly and we will need you to ensure our financial models and budgets give us visibility into our revenue and cash flow.
• Our mission: We’re doing work that matters – connecting lifelong learners around the world and empowering them to pursue their creativity.
• Our team: We have a passionate, talented team that is a lot of fun to work with.
• Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, have an unlimited vacation policy (with a required minimum!), and encourage work-life balance.

About Skillshare:

Skillshare is an online learning community whose mission is to connect curious, lifelong learners everywhere – and, in so doing, build a more creative, more generous, and more prosperous world. Today, our community has grown to millions of members who come to Skillshare to learn creative and entrepreneurial skills, network with peers, and even teach a class themselves. We are backed by Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Amasia, Spero Ventures, and Burda Principal Investments.

Skillshare is committed to building a diverse team that reflects a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We’re proud to be recognized as a top place to work by Crain’s, and one of the five best places to work for women by Bpeace. We work to ensure a consistent interview process, fair compensation, and inclusive work environment for all.