Business Systems Specialist (Virtual)

Job Description

Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning — powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed — however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.

Stride is a community of passionate leaders.  Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers — whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions.  Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.

The Financial Systems Specialist is responsible for providing system support to all areas of Finance, including direct technical and functional application support where appropriate, performing data analysis and serving as a liaison between Finance and Information Technology (IT) organization (retained and outsourced). This is a new position that will report within the Chief Accounting Officer organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:   Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties listed below.

• Possesses a solid understanding of financial, accounting, and treasury concepts and applies them to finance systems.
• Identifies, evaluates, and documents SOX / internal controls in a business process; understands the company’s approach to SOX and internal controls over financial reporting. 
• Partners with IT teams and project management specialists to develop, test and deliver Finance Systems solutions aligned with the company’s strategic objectives
• Provides SME analysis, review the effectiveness and efficiency of existing financial systems/processes for current and new business requirements and conditions
• Participates in acquisition due diligence, integration planning and related activities.
• Provides analysis and verification of financial system errors. Provides risk mitigation strategies for potential errors and escalates errors to IT to drive forward a resolution.
• Develops and delivers timely reports, as required, including those for the Board, senior management, operating units, and corporate clients
• Educates end-users in developing customized reports and ad hoc analysis including key business metric dashboards.
• Utilizes technology and automation tools to retrieve, display, input, gather, produce, and analyze financial information
• Performs administrative tasks as requested by Management (including access provisioning/deprovisioning and change management compliance).
• Oversees internal controls over the areas of responsibility

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:   

• Five (5) years of experience in Financial Systems OR
• Five (5) years of experience in a combination of Finance and Information Technology Systems

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.)
• Experience with finance systems such as Netsuite, Avid, Oracle
• Ability to travel 10% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or information technology or similar field
• Project management experience
• CPA and/or CISA certifications

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states, D.C.

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level.  Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.  Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.