Managing Director of Systems, Reporting, and Analytics (Immediate Opening)

IDEA Public Schools • El Paso, TX

2d • $131,000 - $158,500 • Remote

About The Position

The Managing Director of Systems, Reporting & Analytics provides enterprise leadership over financial systems, reporting architecture, data quality governance, reconciliation efficiency, and analytics enablement. This role develops and executes a multi-year strategy to advance data transparency, automated reporting, system integration, and analytical insight while maintaining continuous audit readiness. The position influences cross-functional data flows, embeds preventative controls, and enables scalable reporting solutions across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; OR 10+ years relevant experience.
• 5+ years’ management experience in systems, reporting, or analytics teams.
• Experience in integrating and governing ERP environments (Workday preferred).
• Proficiency in Power BI, SQL, semantic modeling, and automation concepts.
• Strategic systems thinking and enterprise architecture leadership.
• Automation-first mindset with preventative control design experience.
• Expertise in reconciliation logic, data lineage mapping, and variance analysis.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to executive audiences.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and documentation discipline.

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree preferred
• Charter school experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Establish the analytics maturity roadmap, reporting automation strategy, and data governance standards.
• Define reporting hierarchies, semantic models, and dashboards scalable across business units.
• Lead advanced analytics initiatives including predictive modeling and exception-based reporting.
• Promote self-service analytics culture to reduce manual reporting dependency.
• Serve as business owner for financial ERP systems and ancillary platforms.
• Oversee module configuration, security controls, integrations, and upgrading cycles.
• Align workflow automation with audit, regulatory, and operational compliance.
• Implement preventative posting logic to reduce reconciliation defects.
• Establish automated controls, validation rules, and lineage tracking.
• Deploy continuous cross-system data validations across ERP, sub-ledgers, procurement, and payroll systems.
• Implement remediation for recurring anomalies and coding variances.
• Govern metadata, naming conventions, taxonomies, and business dictionaries.
• Reduce manual reconciliation through automated matching logic and validation checkpoints.
• Oversee reporting datasets, drill-through dashboards, and publishing framework.
• Reduce spreadsheet dependency with automated model refresh cycles.
• Define version control, certification workflows, and publishing standards.
• Surface risk through exception-based dashboarding.
• Evaluate and deploy AI-assisted insight and anomaly detection tools.
• Automate compliance validations are tied to accounting and grant requirements.
• Replace repetitive manual processes with automated workflows.
• Deploy monitoring tied to fund, function, org, and grant compliance.
• Configure alert thresholds aligned to policy, materiality, and risk.
• Measure remediation velocity through CCM dashboards.
• Partner with auditors to validate preventative control coverage.
• Maintain year-round audit-ready datasets and evidence repositories.
• Standardize documentation discipline with metadata and version control.
• Implement corrective action plans tied to audit findings.
• Support walkthroughs and cross-functional control documentation
• Recruit, develop, and mentor analytics and reporting talent.
• Establish professional pathways, expectations, and performance standards.
• Foster a culture of transparency, continuous improvement, and scalability.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan
• IDEA may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees