Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)

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introducing some of the first web-based professional education courses in 2001. Today, the company’s
family of brands are the leading online professional education platforms in their respective end-markets.
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Position Overview:
The Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A) will play a critical role in supporting Colibri’s enterprise financial planning and analysis capabilities, with a primary focus on Adaptive Planning, financial modeling, and cross business unit consolidation.

This role is digital first and highly analytical, partnering closely with FP&A leadership, Accounting, Technology, and business leaders to drive high quality forecasts, budgets, and strategic insights. The ideal candidate brings strong spreadsheet and modeling skills, experience with financial planning software, and a mindset oriented toward automation, AI, and continuous improvement.

This position reports to the Senior Director, FP&A and is an individual contributor role with high visibility across the organization.

What You'll Do :
• Support and enhance Colibri’s Adaptive Planning environment, including model maintenance, data integrity, and reporting outputs
• Support the coordination of budgeting, forecasting, and long range planning processes across multiple business units or ecosystems
• Consolidate financial plans across divisions, ensuring consistency of assumptions, drivers, and outputs
• Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment between forecasted and actual results
• Build and maintain advanced financial models to support decision making, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation
• Support the roll-out of next-gen planning and analysis frameworks
• Support the development of driver based models for revenue, margins, headcount, and/or operating expenses
• Perform variance, trend, and sensitivity analysis to explain performance and inform leadership actions
• Support revenue modeling initiatives, including volume, pricing, mix, and cohort based analysis
• Executive Reporting & Presentations
• Prepare executive level financial presentations for:
• Monthly business and financial reviews
• Quarterly Board of Directors materials
• Annual budget and strategic planning cycles
• Translate complex financial analyses into clear, concise, decision oriented narratives for senior leadership
• Partner with FP&A leadership to ensure executive materials highlight key insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and professionalism across all executive and board level financial deliverables
• Coordinate across FP&A to deliver executive ready financial reporting and insights for FP&A leadership and business partners
• Partner with functional leaders to understand key requirements for our Adaptive roll-out and provide ongoing support
• Support CapEx, headcount, and investment planning analyses as needed and Systems, Automation & AI Enablement
• Act as a power user and continuous improvement of financial planning and reporting tools (Adaptive, Excel, BI tools)
• Leverage advanced Excel / spreadsheet techniques (complex formulas, Power Query, structured modeling, error controls)
• Explore and adopt AI enabled tools (e.g., Copilot, forecasting accelerators, automation tools) to improve speed, accuracy, and insight
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring analyses and improve FP&A workflows

Preferred :
• Experience with revenue modeling and growth analytics
• Experience consolidating financial plans across multiple business units or divisions
• Prior experience supporting or leading system implementations or model redesigns
• Early adopter of AI technologies and automation tools in a finance context
• Experience in education, SaaS, or multi brand environments
• Analytical rigor paired with business judgment
• Ability to distill complex financial information into clear executive level messages
• Comfort operating in imperfect, evolving data environments
• Strong communication skills — written, visual, and verbal
• Bias toward automation, scalability, and continuous improvement
• Trusted partner who can challenge assumptions constructively

Colibri Group welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and we understand that not every candidate will meet every requirement listed in the job description. Research has shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every qualification, and we want to actively combat this bias in our hiring process. If you're excited about the role and believe you have the skills and experience to contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply, even if your background doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we believe that diversity of perspectives and experiences is essential to our success. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another position within our organization. Don't hesitate to take the leap and apply today!