Financial Analyst, Top Hat
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Interactive software for higher education
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Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- Undergraduate degree in Business, Economics, Finance or a related field. Accounting or finance designation is nice to have!
- 1 year of experience in financial analysis or a similar role
- Advanced MS Excel or G Sheets skills (specifically, advanced formulas, pivot tables and charts) and MS PowerPoint
- Ability to work with and distill large amounts of data into meaningful information with minimal management supervision
- Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing ambiguous environment - every day could bring something new and give you the opportunity to gain great experience
- Proficiency in financial modelling, ability to build and maintain financial models
- Ability to work collaboratively with a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Structured thinker and problem solver
- Proven experience providing insight and analysis to stakeholders
- Self-starter who are willing to roll up their sleeves and take the initiative
- Track record of successfully meeting deadlines and proactively managing expectations
- The ideal candidate can harness deep analytical and modelling skills to deeply understand the business units they support and ultimately help them succeed in achieving their objectives
- Comfortable with working in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment, this person brings a positive, solution-focused mindset with the goal of building a stronger business every single day
- Candidates with Big 4 accounting, private equity, or venture capital firm experience looking to get into corporate finance and want to gain tech industry experience, we want to talk to YOU!
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director of Revenue Strategy & Analysis, this person will play a critical role in optimizing Top Hat’s business outcomes by supporting good decision-making and control
- Supporting the Director of Revenue Strategy & Analysis
- Own the monthly variance analysis process across all OPEX departments: Sales & Marketing, R&D and G&A functions. Provide detailed commentary on variances, and partner with department leads to understand if these are true variances or are due to timing and whether we need to book an accrual or increase our full-year forecast
- Partner with departmental leads to support their financial needs; this could range from running ad-hoc reports to business case analysis and being a key financial support for a longer-term initiative
- Assist in developing the annual budget and own the quarterly reforecast process
- Maintain key financial and operational business metrics
- Support the creation and maintenance of various analyses to support the Sales organization
- Develop and maintain financial models and various other analyses/databases to provide insight into business performance, including pipeline & bookings analytics, sales efficiency and recurring forecasting processes
- Utilize analytics to provide recommendations to senior management on efficiency initiatives, process improvement/creation, strategy, etc
- Assist in the development of presentations for senior leadership covering various revenue-focused topics
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company values
- Good In The Woods - We believe that our success depends on being agile, resourceful and brave—no matter how great the challenge
- There Is No 'I' In Top Hat - We believe that teamwork is the key to meeting our goals. We work hard, we work smart and we work without ego
- Aggressive Growth - We believe in moving fast and aiming high, and that our company’s growth will revolutionize higher education
- Treat Professors Like Heroes - We believe professors should be celebrated for their contributions to higher education
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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