Senior Strategic Finance Manager

• Build and maintain a 3-statement financial model for budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, scenario analysis, and net asset impacts.
• Develop ROI analyses and cost-benefit frameworks to shape prioritization decisions and track initiatives from investment through post-launch impact measurement.
• Serve as a strategic partner to senior leaders, providing actionable financial insights to solve key business challenges and evaluate investments.
• Lead FP&A processes including annual budgeting, recurring forecasts, month-end reporting, and preparation of financial reporting for senior leadership and Board presentations.

This role directly supports DonorsChoose's mission by ensuring financial health and strategic resource allocation, enabling the organization to continue providing classroom resources to students in need across the US.

• 6-8 years of related work experience in strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, management consulting, investment banking, private equity, accounting, or similar.
• Proven ability to build sophisticated financial models from scratch and turn ambiguity into structured analysis.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex financial concepts to non-finance leaders.
• Experience with Adaptive Insights or another cloud-based financial planning software; intermediate Excel/Google Sheets skills.

Salary range: $90,000 - $110,000 (higher range of $100,000 - $120,000 for specific higher cost of labor locations).

• 25 paid vacation days and 11 paid holidays
• Rich 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

DonorsChoose is an education nonprofit that connects teachers with donors to fund classroom resources, having raised $1.9 billion and supported 90% of US public schools since 2000.