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Brennan Staffing Group Business Analyst FP&A in Leominster, Massachusetts
Business Analyst (FP&A)/Performance Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will drive excellence across our centers, ensuring high-quality education and care standards are met and sustained. If you are passionate about early education and have a track record of performance management, we invite you to apply and help us shape the future of our growing network. What We Will Achieve Together: Performance Analysis and Management. Financial sustainability through analysis, and assessment to ensure that the financial operation of each school is understood and optimized. Growth Engine. Help position the organization to grow to scale through process refinement/replication/transferability, systems synergies, and quantitative/qualitative performance. Employer of Choice. Achieve a stellar reputation among professionals considering and working in early education. Data Proficiency. Identify, gather, and report upon non-financial Key Performance Indicators (i.e. turnover, staffing, etc) to make decisions and recommendations grounded in facts and insights. Innovation Think Tank. Partner with educational, marketing, and managerial experts in the US and abroad to further develop and publicize our innovative approaches. What Youll Do: The following responsibilities will be prioritized based on the current needs of the business: Identify, analyze, and forecast performance based on four optimization levers: sales performance, proper staffing levels, future enrollment projections, and financial compliance to budget. Build and execute a strategy for profitable operations by analyzing the performance of the school portfolio, assessing opportunities to improve, and innovating to ensure predictable, repeatable, and scalable results that drive revenue growth and maximize quality. Build and maintain operational data and financial reports that analyze performance and inspire action across team members and fellow executives. Serve as an operations champion by moving comfortably between school-level leadership and company-level management on detailed execution to advance the objectives of the business. Work with the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Management to develop and implement a cohesive operational strategy to stimulate, incentivize, and effect scalable organic and inorganic growth. Integrate new schools and innovative products into the portfolio brands, systems, culture, resources, and profit through people- and process-oriented collaboration. Work with the Human Resource operations team to uphold and refine the organizations approach to compliance, compensation, and regulations. Expertly convert Excel data into visual dashboards and reports to support forecasting and management decisions. Other duties as required. Who You Are: Bachelors degree required. High-end, consumer-facing professional experience preferred. 1-3 years of professional experience managing a multi-site, complex enterprises operations, with deep knowledge of finance and human resources. Hybrid role based in Lawrence, MA (north of Boston), with 60% of the workweek from the home office, and 40% remote. Must demonstrate a track record of previous experience in scaling up an organization. Motivated, highly organized, and flexible; a self-starter with a teamwork orientation. Written and verbal communication and presentation skills to translate complex concepts into easily understandable talking points and presentation materials appropriate for all organizational levels, including executive and board-level audiences. Experience developing relationships; ability to build credibility, respect, and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all organizational levels, with a willingness to accept and incorporate feedback. Understanding and experience supporting or managing integration and synergy realization processes. Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), an data visualization tools.