Cotulla Education

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Support long-range financial planning in collaboration with FP&A leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate unit economics, capital deployment opportunities, and business case scenarios.
• Prepare financial inputs and scenario analyses for key initiatives, including new site launches, program expansion, and strategic investments.
• Assist in financial diligence and scenario modeling for potential acquisitions and expansion opportunities.
• Support post-launch and post-transaction tracking, including performance reporting and variance analysis for new or acquired campuses.
• Help prepare investment summaries and decision-support materials for internal leadership reviews.
• Partner with campus and central teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Translate financial analyses into clear takeaways and presentations for leadership meetings and cross-functional discussions.
• Support ad hoc analyses and executive requests with speed, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Monitor weekly and monthly financial performance trends, key metrics, and initiative ROI.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and operational improvement areas through analytical rigor and structured problem-solving.
• Maintain dashboards, reporting templates, and recurring deliverables to improve consistency and transparency across the organization.

Senior Strategic Finance Analyst

• Own monthly revenue forecasting across campuses, brands, and programs using key operational drivers including starts, re-entries, drops, graduations, tuition yield, and fee assumptions.
• Build and maintain driver-based forecast models that tie student population assumptions directly to revenue and profitability outcomes.
• Support annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning with scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling.
• Develop and manage recurring executive scorecards, KPI tracking, and forecast variance reporting for the CFO and FP&A team.
• Own the student population dashboard, tracking beginning population, new starts, drops, graduates, ending population, and forecast versus actual trends.
• Partner with Finance and Operations to maintain a monthly student waterfall and validate enrollment and retention assumptions.
• Define and document forecasting logic, metric definitions, and reporting governance to ensure consistency and transparency.
• Reconcile forecast outputs to source systems and identify anomalies or inconsistencies in reporting.
• Write and manage SQL queries to join, validate, and reconcile data across systems.
• Partner with BI/Data teams to resolve data quality issues and improve reporting accuracy.
• Maintain and enhance executive dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, or similar BI tools.
• Produce actionable analysis on revenue performance, conversion, retention, and unit economics to inform capital allocation and operating decisions.
• Conduct root-cause variance analysis and trend evaluation for executive leadership.
• Translate complex financial and operational insights into concise executive-ready materials, including dashboards, one-pagers, and presentation decks.
• Establish repeatable reporting cadence and governance processes to support forecast updates and KPI reviews.

Senior Strategic Finance & Business Intelligence Analyst

People Operations

• Coordinate the onboarding process from offer acceptance through the employee’s first day, ensuring a smooth transition.
• Partner with hiring managers and IT to provision system access, credentials, and equipment for new hires.
• Manage internal transfers and employee changes within HRIS systems.
• Process terminations, verify documentation, and coordinate access removal and equipment return.
• Collect and validate I-9 documentation, complete E-Verify requirements, and ensure federal compliance deadlines are met.
• Maintain accurate employee data in HRIS, Smartsheets, and related systems.
• Enroll employees in required compliance training and monitor completion.
• Provide Payroll with timely updates related to hires, terminations, and employee changes.
• Respond to general employee inquiries and route requests to appropriate departments as needed.
• Collaborate across HR, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, IT, and campus teams to improve processes and reduce errors.

People Operations Specialist

• Lead long-range financial planning in partnership with executive and campus leadership.
• Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate capital deployment opportunities, unit economics, and business case scenarios.
• Drive investment analysis and valuation for high-impact initiatives, including new site launches, program expansion, and acquisitions.
• Conduct financial due diligence and scenario modeling for potential acquisitions and expansion opportunities.
• Support post-transaction integration planning and financial tracking for acquired or launched campuses.
• Prepare investment memoranda and board-level materials in support of capital allocation decisions.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to campus operators and central leadership.
• Translate complex financial insights into clear recommendations and presentations for board members, investors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Provide strategic oversight on financial performance trends, key metrics, and initiative ROI.
• Identify areas for operational improvement and resource optimization, informed by analytical rigor and market context.

Strategic Finance Lead

Compliance

• Lead regulatory approvals for new and unrelated programs, coordinating state, accreditor, and internal authorization processes to ensure timely, accurate approvals and alignment with institutional strategy.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, and institutional integrations by conducting regulatory due diligence, advising on approval pathways, and tracking required filings and post-approval obligations.
• Establish and manage regulatory relationships with assigned state agencies, serving as the primary institutional point of contact and coordinating communications, submissions, and follow-up activities.
• Oversee the campus excellence program and enterprise compliance scorecards, ensuring consistent monitoring, reporting, and visibility into compliance performance, trends, and risk indicators.
• Own and maintain enterprise Compliance Policies and Procedures (P&Ps), including drafting, reviewing, updating, and coordinating approvals to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and operational practices.
• Maintain regulatory calendars and tracking logs to ensure all filings, renewals, and required submissions are completed accurately and on time across jurisdictions.
• Develop and maintain scalable compliance templates, checklists, toolkits, and playbooks that support standardization, efficiency, and consistent execution across campuses and departments.
• Maintain the Master Self-Evaluation Report (mSER) and other enterprise regulatory inventories, ensuring documentation is current, accurate, and readily available for audits, reviews, and internal monitoring.
• Design and lead the enterprise compliance training program for corporate and campus leadership, including curriculum development, delivery, and ongoing updates to reflect regulatory changes.
• Design and manage the internal compliance audit system, including audit planning, execution, documentation review, findings tracking, corrective action monitoring, and remediation follow-up.
• Maintain the corporate Institutional Accreditation and Institutional Approval (cIAIA) framework, overseeing governance processes, documentation, and quarterly updates to support regulatory oversight.
• Serve as the primary institutional contact for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) coordination and reporting, ensuring accurate submissions and ongoing compliance with reciprocity requirements.
• Oversee school catalog updates and revisions, ensuring content reflects approved programs, policies, and requirements and remains aligned with state, accreditor, and institutional standards.
• Work collaboratively with technology and compliance partners to review, update, and deploy enrollment agreements in alignment with current regulatory and institutional requirements.
• Conduct and coordinate policy and procedure reviews to ensure alignment with regulatory standards, operational practices, and institutional risk management objectives.
• Supervises the compliance auditors and specialists.
• Provides training and support to compliance business partners and campus leaders.

Corporate Director – Regulatory Affairs

Data Scientist

• Own an Operations Analytics portfolio for the COO, including recurring executive scorecards, KPIs, and exception reporting across campuses and central operations.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards and self-service reporting (primarily Tableau) that track operational health and key performance indicators.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and rapid decision support for the COO (e.g., variance analysis, root cause investigations, scenario comparisons, and operational trade-offs).
• Facilitate KPI definition and alignment with stakeholders; document metric definitions, business rules, and data sources to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Conduct periodic campus visits to map key processes, validate how data is captured, identify operational friction points, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Assess options for process improvement, including business process modeling and measurement plans to evaluate change impact.
• Validate accuracy of operational reporting by reconciling outputs to source systems and identifying anomalies; escalate data quality issues to the BI team with clear reproduction steps.
• Create clear written and visual narratives (briefs, one-pagers, meeting-ready summaries, and slide decks) that communicate insights and recommended actions to executives and campus leadership.

Senior Strategic Finance Analyst

Senior Strategic Finance & Business Intelligence Analyst

People Operations Specialist

Strategic Finance Lead

Corporate Director – Regulatory Affairs

Analytics Lead – Operations