Head of FP&A and Operations

We're a fast-moving company in the education space, and we're hiring an in-house Head of FP&A and Operations. This is a foundational role — you'll be the single owner of the financial plan, the operating budget, and the FP&A function across multiple business lines.

If you're a smart generalist who can build a 10-year model from a blank sheet, talk with CFOs, and use AI tools to do the work of a small team, we want to talk.

What you'll own

• The long-term financial model. Build and maintain a multi-year, multi-entity operating model. Unit economics, revenue build, cost structure, consolidated P&L. Every number ties.
• The annual budget and rolling forecast. Run the budgeting cycle. Refresh actuals monthly. Produce variance commentary an executive can read in 60 seconds.
• Cash forecasting. Rolling 13-week cash forecast across entities.
• Unit economics. Own CAC, LTV, payback, contribution margin, and cohort analysis. Be the person who can explain in 30 seconds why a number moved.
• Investor-grade materials. Financial sections of fundraising decks, data rooms, diligence Q&A, KPI dashboards.
• AI-leveraged FP&A operations. Build repeatable AI workflows so monthly close and reforecast take hours, not weeks.
• Operations glue. Headcount planning, vendor contracts, comp design, pricing analysis — the finance-literate generalist work that needs an owner.

Requirements

• 5–10 years in FP&A, investment banking, private equity, strategic finance at a high-growth operator, or a top-tier consulting firm with finance-heavy work.
• You can build a multi-year, multi-entity operating model from scratch and defend every assumption.
• Excel/Sheets master. Pivot tables, dynamic arrays, scenario toggles, sensitivity tables are reflexes.
• Aggressive, high-taste user of AI tools (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, agentic workflows). You've built things with them, not just chatted.
• You can talk finance-to-finance with a top-tier CFO and not get rolled.
• You write tight. One-page memos that get read once and acted on.
• You QA your own work obsessively. You catch your errors before sending. When you don't, you own it cleanly.

Strongly preferred

• Experience supporting a capital raise (data room, diligence Q&A, model audit).
• Experience with cohort-based or multi-unit business economics.

You are not a fit if

• You think AI output doesn't need to be checked.
• You need a finance team underneath you to be productive.
• You're uncomfortable being the only finance person in the room with the CEO and external advisors.

Why this role is a great opportunity

• Foundational hire. You define the function, the tools, the cadence, and the standard.
• Real scope. Multi-entity, multi-business-line, with capital-raise work on the horizon.
• Build the AI playbook. We expect FP&A to be radically AI-leveraged. You get to build the playbook from day one.