Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. The Finance Manager for the Education Business at ETS plays a critical role in ensuring financial integrity, visibility, and strategic support across a broad and evolving portfolio of offerings and initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support accurate application of revenue recognition in month end reporting and forecasting cycles
- Review contracts to determine appropriate revenue treatment, including multi-element arrangements
- Partner with Accounting to ensure timely and accurate month-end and quarter-end close processes related to revenue and expenses
- Lead contract review and validation processes to ensure alignment between contractual terms, billing, and revenue recognition
- Reconcile contract values to billed and recognized revenue, identifying discrepancies and driving resolution
- Establish and maintain controls over contract setup, amendments, and financial tracking
- Own forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes for Education
- Develop and maintain financial models to support revenue forecasting, margin analysis, and scenario planning
- Analyze actual results vs. forecast/budget and provide clear variance explanations and insights
- Deliver actionable recommendations to improve financial performance and operational efficiency
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to Education leadership, providing insights on performance, risks, and opportunities
- Support pricing strategies, investment decisions, and partnership evaluations through financial analysis
- Translate complex financial data into clear, concise narratives for non-financial stakeholders
- Drive financial discipline and accountability across the business
- Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, improve data integrity, and enhance reporting capabilities
- Support system implementations or enhancements related to financial reporting and contract management
- Functional & Technical Acumen - Expertise: Able to do, explain, teach, re-imagine and innovate specific domain
- End to End ETS Understanding - Expertise: Understands broad impact of own role and related roles across ETS; able to affect interdependent roles throughout ETS. Understands interrelationship of roles with external environment and how these may affect ETS both now and in the future
- Results Orientation - Mastery to Expertise: Extends ownership beyond assigned accountabilities and successfully overcomes unforeseen obstacles and/or ambiguities. Periodically redefines and re-prioritizes scope as necessary to accomplish critical outcomes by anticipating, influencing and satisfying the customer’s or stakeholder’s reasonable needs and established expectations
- Market Insight and Service Orientation - Mastery: By anticipating and influencing customer and stakeholder perspectives, delivers exemplary service, even when requests are unreasonable, or conditions change unexpectedly
- Learning Agility - Mastery: Recognizes patterns that help self or others promptly and appropriately respond to non-routine events or prepare for contingencies for foreseeable conditions
- Relationship Mastery/ People Skills - Mastery to Expertise: Collaborates effectively in teams, soliciting and incorporating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, thoughts and experiences. Improves capacity for institutional success by modeling and enabling effective individual and group relationships among others
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- 8+ years of progressive experience in finance or accounting
- Strong technical skills in financial modelling, forecasting tools (EPM, Netsuite), and advanced excel
- Proven ability to manage complex data sets and synthesize insights for decision-making
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
- ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
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