Finance & Strategy Manager, Brightwheel
$104-169k
Online platform for early education management
Open for applications
Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$104-169k
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
- You are passionate, highly motivated and will partner with key functions to enable the company’s operational execution and financial strategy
- 6+ years of finance experience including experience within investment banking, private equity or venture capital, including 1+ years recent operational experience in strategic finance functions at a high-growth company
- High proficiency in Excel, Google Suite, and financial reporting softwares
- Excellent analytical financial modeling and forecasting skills, with a deep understanding of model architecture and formula efficiency and business judgment to balance details while not losing sight of the big picture
- Strong grasp of the 3 financial statements and US GAAP
- Strong business acumen and experience implementing financial processes and systems
- Team player that thrives in a fast-paced environment, loves data and numbers, and is highly self-motivated and analytical
- Strong communication and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to senior management
What the job involves
- Brightwheel is seeking a talented Finance and Strategy Manager to join the Finance and Strategy team
- As a high impact member of the Finance and Strategy team, you will be a driver in cross-functional collaboration + accountability and have the opportunity to build out and manage our financial strategy
- You will be the key financial business partner to deliver key analyses to drive top initiatives and future scale
- This is a highly visible role in the organization involving close partnership with executive business leaders across the company
- Own and build detailed and dynamic financial models to support business cases and influence key investment decisions that inform the company’s strategy across various functions and P&Ls
- Be a lead in company-wide quarterly and annual planning cycles including partnering with key stakeholders for inputs, driving strategic discussions around investments, presenting takeaways and recommendations to executive leadership on financial outlook, investment focus and overall cash impact
- Be an expert finance business partner by delivering financial support to key functions (Operations, G&A, and Product & Engineering) regarding investment approvals and identifying risks and opportunities to our financial plan
- Being a thought leader to improve and simplify processes, drive standardization, and build scalable solutions and reporting to support the next stage of brightwheel’s growth
- Assist in ad hoc projects and reporting including but not limited to: Investor Relations, Capital Fundraising, Board meetings
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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