About the company
Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to worldclass learning. Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic roadmap and digital transformation of the FP&A function across a complex tech organization.
- Bridge technical automation and business strategy, ensuring system builds reflect unique segment drivers.
- Inherit a dual-system landscape (IBM Planning Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning) to evaluate, test, and select the single go-forward enterprise architecture.
- Lead, mentor, and cross-train an internal team of two direct reports.
- Drive a cultural shift away from manual spreadsheet assembly.
- Leverage automated reporting and financial data to surface actionable insights.
- Manage day-to-day workflows for two direct reports.
- Partner directly with decentralized FP&A teams to audit workflows and build tailored automated financial modeling solutions.
- Direct external implementation consultants and manage vendor relationships to execute the system migration.
- Automate data pipelines and standard reporting decks to reduce monthly close and forecast cycle times.
- Establish strict system access controls, data hierarchy standards, and cross-functional user training programs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across FP&A, Finance Transformation, or Financial Systems, ideally within a high-growth, multi-segment technology company.
- Hands-on architectural and administrative knowledge of both Workday Adaptive Planning and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), or comparable enterprise planning platforms.
- Proven success leading end-to-end platform consolidations, vendor bake-offs, and full-lifecycle system implementations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and upskill technical team members through organizational change.
- Working knowledge of modern data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI), SQL, data warehousing, or automation tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field (MBA/CPA preferred).