Director of Strategic Finance, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - $200,000/year USD

This role redefines traditional FP&A. It's a finance operating system designed for those who build.

At 2 Hour Learning, you won't spend time revising outdated budgets or depending on business intelligence teams. Instead, you'll construct the financial models, real-time dashboards, and control frameworks that provide operators and leadership with the precision required for confident, daily decision-making. Your output influences school launches, strategic direction changes, and operational momentum—it must be timely, reliable, and actionable.

You'll be responsible for a dynamic, AI-enhanced finance infrastructure. This includes unified P&L models across schools and verticals, continuously updated 12–18 month forecasts that remain current within 72 hours, and dashboards engineered to highlight the critical two or three performance drivers. You'll deliver these capabilities using Klair, Syft, and Retool—independently, without reliance on engineering resources.

If you're ready for your financial models to shape execution rather than merely document outcomes, this position offers that opportunity. You won't observe from a distance. You'll operate at the core of strategic momentum.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and sustain integrated 3-statement financial models for every school and business vertical — connecting enrollment projections, headcount planning, and capital expenditure into a unified forecast framework.
• Refresh rolling 12–18 month forecasts on a weekly cadence using current data, and perform scenario analysis to evaluate upside and downside exposure.
• Create executive-level dashboards fed by live data streams — surfacing the most impactful levers to support confident, real-time decisions.
• Deploy AI and automation to identify irregularities, monitor variance trends, and remove manual spreadsheet dependencies throughout finance workflows.
• Author concise strategic memos summarizing financial exposure, decision alternatives, and budgetary trade-offs — prepared to board standards within 72 hours.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Running a drawn-out budgeting cycle — your forecasts adapt continuously as the business evolves.
• Enforcing expense approvals or tracking receipts — your focus is strategic insight and operational control, not administrative overhead.
• Depending on BI or data teams — you design and deploy your own tools, dashboards, and financial models.
• Sifting through irrelevant data — your mandate is to isolate the critical insights that influence outcomes.
• Creating reports that sit unused — your deliverables inform live decisions within days of completion.

Director Of Strategic Finance Key Responsibilities

Provide continuously updated financial models, forecasts, and executive dashboards that enable daily decision-making and strategic transparency across an expanding portfolio of schools.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Mathematics (CPA/CFA/MBA is a plus)
• Based in the United States and authorized to work without visa sponsorship
• Available for approximately 25% travel to U.S.-based campuses
• 3–6 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, Big 4 corporate finance/M&A (excluding audit), or high-growth FP&A environments
• Demonstrated capability in building integrated 3-statement models compliant with U.S. GAAP
• Ability to produce investor-quality analysis and strategic recommendations under compressed timelines
• Active, daily use of AI and automation platforms (e.g., GPT, Klair, Syft, Retool, NetSuite automations)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, Oracle, or SAP
• Background in multi-location education, real estate/facilities, or operationally intensive sectors
• Prior involvement in board reporting or investor presentation development
• Proven success building AI-driven dashboards or low-code finance solutions
• Familiarity with premium service organizations that maintain rigorous financial discipline

About 2 Hour Learning

Education is broken, but 2 Hour Learning is proving it doesn’t have to be. They’re tearing down the outdated one-size-fits-all model and replacing it with AI-driven personalized learning that helps kids master academics in just two hours a day.

With students consistently ranking in the top 1-2% nationally and the top 20% achieving an astonishing 6.5x growth, they’re proving that smarter learning is possible. At 2 Hour Learning, it’s talent and performance that matter.

They offer a dynamic, on-campus and remote-friendly environment where innovators, educators, and AI specialists can be a part of fixing a broken school system.

2 Hour Learning is reprogramming learning for the AI era.

Here’s How They’re Fixing It.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5680-US-Elizabet-DirectorofStra.001