Senior Compensation Manager
Cambium Learning Group
Senior Manager, Decision Support
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,200 - $247,900 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Oracle
About the role
- Serve as a key member of the business management team, providing leadership, management and financial oversight for the responsible segments.
- Lead all financial processes, both strategic and tactical.
- This includes reviewing monthly sales revenue and cost reports with insights into trends and variances, and preparing customer and product profitability analysis.
- Additionally, advise the business unit on strategic direction, drive value creation by providing clear recommendations for action, and develop revenue, direct cost, and labor driver assumptions and has overall responsibility for the forecasting cycles.
- Ensure supported segments and solutions understand the key drivers of their financial performance.
- The role requires managing a team based in multiple locations.
- As a senior member of the finance team, the individual is expected to proactively identify and develop talent, provide ongoing training and development opportunities, and foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment to ensure the growth and success of all team members.
- Support the lifecycle of mergers and acquisitions, from upfront acquisition models and due diligence (with support from a pool of expertise) to post-merger integration projects.
- Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with the Business Unit CFO, Senior Director/Director, Business Partners, and other support functions.
- Proactively liaise with commercial teams, constructively challenging assumptions during month-end and forecast processes to ensure investments deliver appropriate returns.
- Embrace a culture of continuous improvement, seeking simplification, automation, and uniformity.
- Provide strong stewardship and governance of the business unit.
- Review and implement management reporting and analytics to deliver timely, forward-looking, actionable data that supports effective decision-making.
- Improve or remove outdated data, metrics, reports, and processes.
- Own and ensure the timely delivery of required information. Provide quality commentary, including insights into results and action plans to capitalize on opportunities or mitigate risks.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience in a financial role, with a deep understanding of P&L metrics and drivers in a global organization.
- Have a Financial Degree or Diploma, MBA, or advanced business degree.
- Have excellent knowledge of financial and management accounting, processes, and systems.
- Be a team player with the ability to manage through influence and multiple relationships.
- Be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Oracle Fusion, Dodeca, and Peoplesoft.
- Have the ability to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.
- Have a good understanding of accounting principles and concepts.
- Be able to communicate daily with non-finance professionals and handle potentially emotive topics.
Benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial oversightP&L metricsfinancial accountingmanagement accountingforecastingprofitability analysismergers and acquisitionsdata analyticscontinuous improvementfinancial processes
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementcollaborationinfluencecommunicationtalent developmentrelationship managementproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptability
Certifications
Financial DegreeMBAadvanced business degree
