Fast Facts

Stride is seeking a Business Systems Specialist to provide financial systems support, ensuring effective integration between Finance and IT. This virtual position focuses on data analysis, SOX compliance, and enhancing finance systems with a commitment to empower learners and streamline processes.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include supporting financial systems, developing reports, performing data analysis, ensuring compliance with SOX/internal controls, and collaborating with IT on system solutions.

Skills: Required skills include a solid understanding of financial systems, experience with finance software like Netsuite or Oracle, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, project management experience, and CPA/CISA certifications.

Location: This is a fully remote position available to residents of the 50 states and D.C.

Compensation: $60384 - $95000 / Annually

Job Description

Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning — powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed — however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.

Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers — whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.

The Financial Systems Specialist is responsible for providing system support to all areas of Finance, including direct technical and functional application support where appropriate, performing data analysis and serving as a liaison between Finance and Information Technology (IT) organization (retained and outsourced). This is a new position that will report within the Chief Accounting Officer organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties listed below.

• Possesses a solid understanding of financial, accounting, and treasury concepts and applies them to finance systems.
• Identifies, evaluates, and documents SOX / internal controls in a business process; understands the company’s approach to SOX and internal controls over financial reporting. 
• Partners with IT teams and project management specialists to develop, test and deliver Finance Systems solutions aligned with the company’s strategic objectives
• Provides SME analysis, review the effectiveness and efficiency of existing financial systems/processes for current and new business requirements and conditions
• Participates in acquisition due diligence, integration planning and related activities.
• Provides analysis and verification of financial system errors. Provides risk mitigation strategies for potential errors and escalates errors to IT to drive forward a resolution.
• Develops and delivers timely reports, as required, including those for the Board, senior management, operating units, and corporate clients
• Educates end-users in developing customized reports and ad hoc analysis including key business metric dashboards.
• Utilizes technology and automation tools to retrieve, display, input, gather, produce, and analyze financial information
• Performs administrative tasks as requested by Management (including access provisioning/deprovisioning and change management compliance).
• Oversees internal controls over the areas of responsibility

Supervisory Responsibilities:This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Five (5) years of experience in Financial Systems OR
• Five (5) years of experience in a combination of Finance and Information Technology Systems

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.)
• Experience with finance systems such as Netsuite, Avid, Oracle
• Ability to travel 10% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or information technology or similar field
• Project management experience
• CPA and/or CISA certifications

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states, D.C.

Compensation & Benefits:Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range. 

• We anticipate the salary range to be $60,384 to $ 95,000.00. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

Job Type

Regular

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting [email protected].

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.