Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)
About The Position
At Colibri, culture is a critical part of our collective success, and we live our values everyday: Love, Joy, Boldness, Teamwork and Curiosity. These values guide our interactions with each other, our customers, and the community as a whole. We have a rich and storied history. Colibri is one of the pioneers of online professional education, introducing some of the first web-based professional education courses in 2001. Today, the companyâs family of brands are the leading online professional education platforms in their respective end-markets. We proudly serve >1 million customers annually and employ more than 1,500 mission-aligned professionals. To learn more, please visit: www.colibrigroup.com Position Overview: The Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A) will play a critical role in supporting Colibriâs 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.
Requirements
- Bachelorâs degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 4â7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or related roles
- Strong proficiency in Excel / spreadsheet based financial modeling
- Hands on experience with financial planning software (Adaptive Planning strongly preferred)
- Solid understanding of P&L drivers and financial statement relationships
- Experience preparing executive level financial materials and presenting insights to senior leaders
- Ability to work independently in a fast paced, evolving environment
Nice To Haves
- 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 â written, visual, and verbal
- Bias toward automation, scalability, and continuous improvement
- Trusted partner who can challenge assumptions constructively
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance Colibriâs 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
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
