Strategic Finance Director

The role

You will provide financial insights to drive growth, optimize resource allocation, and shape cash and margin decisions. You will build sophisticated financial models and lead budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting activities.

What you will do

• Build and maintain a 3-statement financial model
• Develop ROI analyses and cost-benefit frameworks
• Influence decision-making with actionable financial insights
• Partner across the organization to evaluate deal economics and optimize margins
• Communicate executive-ready analyses, dashboards, and Board materials
• Lead annual budgeting, recurring forecasts, and month-end reporting
• Improve and automate FP&A processes using modern tooling
• Guide senior leaders on resource allocation
• Manage vendor renewal calendars
• Support the build-out of an internal procurement process

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of related work experience in strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, management consulting, investment banking, private equity, accounting, or another discipline responsible for fina
• Built sophisticated financial models from scratch
• Tech-savvy and comfortable embracing new systems and tools
• Intermediate Excel/Google Sheet functions (pivot tables, lookup functions, graphs/tables)
• Care deeply about education and share commitment to racial and economic equity in America’s public schools

Nice to have

• Experience working with Adaptive Insights or another cloud-based financial planning software

Benefits

• 25 paid vacation days per year
• 11 paid holidays
• Employer-paid individual and family health plan
• Matching 401(k) plan (up to 5% of base salary)
• Annual professional development stipend
• Casual and flexible work environment

Before you apply

• DonorsChoose participates in E-Verify
• Refrain from using AI writing tools to craft responses to application questions

About the company

DonorsChoose is an education nonprofit that connects educators with a nationwide community of supporters to provide classroom resources. The organization has raised $1.9 billion for classrooms since its founding in 2000.