FP&A Manager, Coursera
Consumer
$111-161.5k
Salary dependent on location. + Bonus and RSU equity programs
Online learning platform
Be an early applicant
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$111-161.5k
Salary dependent on location. + Bonus and RSU equity programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, business acumen, and a passion for connecting data to meaningful business outcomes
- 5+ years of progressive, relevant experience in FP&A
- Demonstrated background to build strong relationships and establish credibility with diverse audiences and work collaboratively to deliver meaningful analyses and decision support
- Direct experience with Excel, G-suite, NetSuite, Planning Systems like IBM TM1/Oracle Essbase
- Ability to work with large volumes of data, drive insights through analysis, and communicating to business partners
- Experience in Financial modeling, understand US GAAP revenue recognition standards
Desirable
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics or other relevant quantitative field
- Advanced Excel/Gsheet skills with the ability to create and operate complex financial models and automated reporting
- Proven experience working with large volumes of data
- Experience with process re-engineering and improvement
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively and communicate with all levels of the company
- Internet Consumer business experience preferred
What the job involves
- This role will join Coursera’s Finance team and play a strategic role in forecasting, business planning, performance reporting, and business analytics activities
- In this role, you will own key components of Coursera’s revenue forecasting and planning processes, build and maintain key performance metrics, analyze and drive insights on those metrics
- . You will bring outstanding planning and modeling skills with a willingness to learn about the industry
- This role will be dedicated to helping stakeholders make well informed decisions based on Company financial analysis and performance
- Strategic Finance Partner to internal consumer business leaders and FP&A team, defining, tracking, analyzing and communicating key metrics to guide operational and strategic decisions
- Own analysis and reporting of underlying drivers of monthly business performance. Lead daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly topline performance updates and business deep dives
- Build, enhance and manage scalable financial models, including regional forecast models, LTV/CAC framework, content benchmarking and marketing ROI analyses to support forecasting, planning and strategic decisions
- Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, systems, and tools, helping streamline forecasting cycles, enhance data accuracy, and improve reporting automation and scalability
Application process
- We anticipate the application window will be open until 7th October 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window
Our take
Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng in 2012 with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world. It partners with universities and other educational institutions to deliver online courses to 40 million students, covering subjects like technology, business, science, and even autonomous cars.
Coursera sees itself as helping people get ready for the next wave of technological advancement. It is preparing individuals, companies, and governments to meet that challenge head-on and turn this disruption into opportunity. To help achieve this, it also has specific product offerings for the corporate market, as well as for governments and nonprofits.
The model of online courses that anyone can attend is very scalable, making Coursera appealing to investors, especially when the online education market is expected to be worth $20bn+ by 2023. Further, it received B Corp certification in February 2021, propelling its efforts to reduce barriers to high quality education.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2020
$130m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$103m
SERIES E
Total funding: $443.1m
Company benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Ng
(Co-Founder & Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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