Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cengage is a global education technology company dedicated to helping learners improve their lives through affordable digital products and services. The Senior Financial Analyst for Digital will contribute to financial performance by supporting R&D spend and ROI, while also preparing financial reports and analyzing performance trends.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for tracking time and cost spent in R&D supporting various Business Units, corporate initiatives, and alignment to strategic priorities
- Monitors and analyzes R&D resource deployment activity and trends over time. Conveys those findings to Executives and Senior leaders in presentations, dashboards, and other communications
- Builds and maintains labor/financial models that efficiently ladder from person/time to rollup financial summaries
- Develops critical business case inputs for planning and investment decisions
- Liaises with Technical Accounting and Fixed Assets to ensure proper treatment and documentation of capital projects
- Assists in crafting budgeting and forecasting decks for executive discussions
- Prepares and distributes monthly financial reports detailing performance
- Proactively identifies key insights in performance trends and provides analysis
- Streamlines project tracking and transparency to stakeholders
- Supports investor presentations and data requirements for reporting
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in accounting, finance, or a related field
- Minimum of 2-4 years' experience in FP&A, private equity, or a similar role
- Prior experience in a Finance role supporting the R&D function with specific expertise with time-tracking tools, Jira, and/or similar; ability to translate those non-financial tools into financial metrics
- Excellent working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience, confidence, and capability to collaborate with and influence senior leaders
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with an ability to balance multiple activities
- Aptitude for utilizing AI and partnering in operational transformations
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Outstanding analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
- Curiosity, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a willingness to collaborate
- Self-starter who takes initiative; confident under pressure and meets deadlines
Benefits
- At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees.
- The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location.
- Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
Company Overview
Cengage, a global edtech company, supports learners, educators and institutions across more than 100 countries. It was founded in 1903, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.cengagegroup.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Cengage has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 17 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 21 in 2023, 19 in 2022, 16 in 2021, 56 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.