Director of Financial Operations $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
This role redefines financial operations for organizations that build and scale rapidly.
2 Hour Learning is constructing a network of schools that function in fundamentally different ways. Decisions are made every day, execution happens quickly, and financial insight must match that velocity. You won't spend time presenting outdated budgets or depending on business intelligence teams to generate reports. Instead, you'll create the models, dashboards, and control frameworks that equip operators and leadership with the clarity required for confident, real-time decision-making. Your deliverables will influence everything from new school openings to major strategic shifts, and they must be fast, precise, and reliable.
You'll take ownership of a live finance infrastructure enhanced by AI. This includes integrated profit and loss models for every school and business vertical. Forecasts covering 12 to 18 months that remain current within 72 hours. Dashboards designed to highlight the handful of metrics that truly drive performance. AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot will accelerate your analytical workflows and remove inefficiencies. Your role is not to engineer systems from the ground up—it's to leverage available technologies to deliver results with exceptional speed.
This position is not suited to operations managers who thrive in rigid, hierarchical structures. It's designed for finance professionals who are dissatisfied with bureaucratic inertia and sluggish workflows. You apply AI to improve throughput and expect your financial models to inform execution, not merely document the past. You won't observe from a distance while waiting for approval. You'll be integral to how decisions are made and acted upon.
What you will be doing
- Develop and maintain dynamic three-statement financial models for each school and vertical, integrating enrollment data, staffing plans, and capital expenditures into unified forecasts.
- Refresh rolling 12 to 18 month forecasts on a weekly basis using the most current available data, and scenario-test potential upside and downside outcomes.
- Produce executive dashboards operating on real-time data that emphasize critical performance levers and support daily decision-making with confidence.
- Apply AI tools to speed up analytical tasks, identify outliers, monitor variances, and remove spreadsheet-related inefficiencies throughout finance operations.
- Draft concise memos that distill financial risks, strategic alternatives, and budgetary implications to board-ready standards, delivered within 72 hours.
What you will NOT be doing
- Overseeing sluggish budgeting cycles or generating reports that go unread — your forecasts adapt to business realities in real time, and your outputs influence decisions within days.
- Enforcing cost center compliance or tracking down expense receipts — your focus will be on transparency and financial control, not administrative overhead.
- Depending on business intelligence teams — you will construct the tools, dashboards, and models independently.
- Getting lost in irrelevant detail — your responsibility is to isolate the critical insights that shift outcomes.
- Developing automated infrastructure from the ground up — you'll harness AI tools to enhance your productivity, not to build technical systems.
Key responsibilities
Produce continuously updated financial models, forecasts, and dashboards that enable daily decision-making and strategic insight across a fast-expanding network of schools.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work at least 3 hours of daily overlap with US business hours (08:00 - 17:00 US EST / UTC-5)
- 5+ years in investment banking, private equity, Big 4 corp finance/M&A (not audit), or high-growth FP&A
- Proven experience building integrated 3-statement models tied to U.S. GAAP
- Comfortable delivering investor-grade analysis and recommendations under tight deadlines
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude) to accelerate financial analysis, document generation, and data processing
Nice to have
- CPA/CFA/MBA certification
- ERP experience in NetSuite, Oracle, or SAP
- Familiarity with multi-site education, facilities, or ops-heavy industries
- Experience with board-level reporting or investor-facing materials
- Experience building AI-automated dashboards or low-code finance tools
- Exposure to high-end service environments with exacting financial standards
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