Director of Strategic Finance, Brightwheel
$153-235k
Online platform for early education management
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Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$153-235k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- Brightwheel is seeking a talented strategic finance leader to play an essential role in our next stage of growth
- You have exceptional problem solving & analytical skills and love tackling complex operational challenges with data-driven solutions
- You are an excellent collaborator and have proven experience working with senior leadership teams to deliver outcomes for the company
- You thrive in fast-paced environments and are excited to help steer brightwheel into our newest growth phase
- 10+ years of finance experience, including a combination of investment banking, investing (venture capital or private equity), and/or in-house operating experience at a technology company; MBA, management consulting, and/or Saas/FinTech experience preferred
- Proven ability to partner with all levels of management to guide strategic decision making; ability to apply both financial and operational lenses
- Ability to think strategically, along with a willingness to get into the weeds
- Excellent financial modeling and analytical toolkit, and experience building and owning financial models
- Entrepreneurial builder, who is comfortable with ambiguity and able to thrive in a fast-growing startup environment
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and influencing skills
- Familiarity with GAAP accounting and working knowledge of all financial statements
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for driving decision-making on critical components and partnerships across the entire go-to-market functions + own all topline forecasting
- Lead, manage, and grow the Finance & Strategy function for GTM (Sales, Marketing, CS)
- Build and lead a world-class team and push the boundaries to produce deeper operational insights
- Partner with our leadership team to guide strategic decision-making and evaluate areas of investment
- Own end-to-end planning (annual, quarterly re-forecasts, and weekly updates) for the key topline inputs and outputs
- Create a data-based performance culture upleveling and scaling our sophistication and understanding of Annual Contract Value (ACV), Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), Churn, Gross and Net Retention, Pipeline, GTM productivity, etc
- Develop a deep understanding of our Sales funnel and build financial models to evaluate sales and marketing initiatives, ROI on campaigns (across channels), and customer lifetime value (and payback)
- Prepare deep dives for the Executive team and the Board of Directors on GTM business performance in collaboration with key stakeholders to inform operating health and future investment decisions
- Drive headcount, quota capacity, cost of sales analysis, and expense planning for Sales, Post-Sales, and marketing teams
Our take
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. Since their $55 million funding round, if it remains on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, Brightwheel will likely achieve its goal of going public in a few years time.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Deliver Value for Customers
- Take Ownership
- Get Better Every Day
- Think Critically, Move Fast
- Dive Deep
- Trust, and Challenge
- Make it Happen
- Achieve Extraordinary Results
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dave Vasen
(CEO)Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.
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