Senior Analyst, Financial Operations

College Board -

Finance

Location

: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Role Type

: This is a full-time position

About the Team

The Financial Operations controller’s team serves as financial stewards and ensures the integrity, accuracy, and transparency of financial reporting, by leading the month-end and year-end close processes for the College Board divisions, ensuring consistency, completeness, and compliance. They implement and maintain robust internal controls to safeguard assets and ensure the accuracy of financial data. They proactively identify financial risks and work to mitigate them through process improvement and policy enforcement. They also bridge the gap between strategic financial leadership and operational execution.

About the Opportunity

The Senior Analyst, Financial Operations provides direct support to the Senior Director, Finance, in efforts to achieve organization-wide financial and business performance objectives. Chief responsibilities include providing support for the monthly close process by way of journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, deferrals, chargebacks, payment tracking, supporting budgetary analyses and forecasting.

This role will support multiple divisions including Learning and Assessment, BigFuture, the Office of the CEO, Operations, and Corporate, & Finance.

In this role, you will

Month-End Close Support (35%)

• Provides support to the Senior director by assisting with all phases of the close process which includes accruals, reconciliations, monthly reporting, actual/budget variance analysis and resolution.
• Extracts and analyzes data from multiple sources, analyzing the results, identifies inconsistencies, follows up on resolutions along with supporting documenta...