ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
About the role
We are seeking a highly analytical and motivated Manager of Strategic Finance to be a critical partner in shaping ParentSquare's strategic direction and business decision-making. This role will focus on strategic projects, cross-functional business partnering, and corporate development. The Manager of Strategic Finance will play a key role in structuring ambiguous business problems, evaluating growth opportunities, and delivering insight-driven recommendations to executive leadership.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of prior experience in strategic finance at a SaaS company, strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity, or corporate development
- An AI-native mindset: you are proactive about using AI tools to accelerate research, modeling, and strategic analysis
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills (a modeling test will be part of the process)
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to structure unstructured, open-ended business problems into clear frameworks and recommendations
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills, with experience preparing materials for and presenting to senior leadership or a board
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to balance attention to detail with a view of the bigger strategic picture
More about this role
We are seeking a highly analytical and motivated Manager of Strategic Finance to be a critical partner in shaping ParentSquare's strategic direction and business decision-making. This role will focus on strategic projects, cross-functional business partnering, and corporate development. The Manager of Strategic Finance will play a key role in structuring ambiguous business problems, evaluating growth opportunities, and delivering insight-driven recommendations to executive leadership.
Strategic Projects & Corporate Development: Lead strategic initiatives to drive organic and inorganic growth, including M&A evaluation and diligence support, pricing and packaging strategy, and business cases for new products or markets.
Cross-Functional Business Partnering: Serve as a strategic finance partner to business leaders and the executive team, delivering analysis on unit economics, ROI on strategic initiatives, and evaluation of build-vs-buy and partnership decisions.
Cross-Functional Initiative Leadership: Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Operations on high-priority initiatives requiring financial analysis and business case development, driving the work from...
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