Finance Manager

About ETS:

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE and Praxis tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

The Finance Manager for the Education Business at ETS plays a critical role in ensuring financial integrity, visibility, and strategic support across a broad and evolving portfolio of offerings and initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of accounting and finance, with a strong emphasis on revenue and expense recognition, contract validation, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), and business partnership with leadership . The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical expertise, executive communication skills, and a proven ability to align financial insights with business goals.

• Support accurate application of revenue recognition in month end reporting and forecasting cycles
• Review contracts to determine appropriate revenue treatment, including multi-element arrangements
• Partner with Accounting to ensure timely and accurate month-end and quarter-end close processes related to revenue and expenses
• Lead contract review and validation processes to ensure alignment between contractual terms, billing, and revenue recognition
• Reconcile contract values to billed and recognized revenue, identifying discrepancies and driving resolution
• Establish and maintain controls over contract setup, amendments, and financial tracking
• Own forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes for Education
• Develop and maintain financial models to support revenue forecasting, margin analysis, and scenario planning
• Analyze actual results vs. forecast/budget and provide clear variance explanations and insights
• Deliver actionable recommendations to improve financial performance and operational efficiency
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Education leadership, providing insights on performance, risks, and opportunities
• Support pricing strategies, investment decisions, and partnership evaluations through financial analysis
• Translate complex financial data into clear, concise narratives for non-financial stakeholders
• Drive financial discipline and accountability across the business
• Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, improve data integrity, and enhance reporting capabilities
• Support system implementations or enhancements related to financial reporting and contract management
• Functional & Technical Acumen - Expertise: Able to do, explain, teach, re-imagine and innovate specific domain.
• End to End ETS Understanding - Expertise: Understands broad impact of own role and related roles across ETS; able to affect interdependent roles throughout ETS. Understands interrelationship of roles with external environment and how these may affect ETS both now and in the future.
• Results Orientation - Mastery to Expertise: Extends ownership beyond assigned accountabilities and successfully overcomes unforeseen obstacles and/or ambiguities. Periodically redefines and re-prioritizes scope as necessary to accomplish critical outcomes by anticipating, influencing and satisfying the customer's or stakeholder's reasonable needs and established expectations.
• Market Insight and Service Orientation - Mastery: By anticipating and influencing customer and stake holder perspectives, delivers exemplary service, even when requests are unreasonable, or conditions change unexpectedly.
• Learning Agility - Mastery: Recognizes patterns that help self or others promptly and appropriately respond to non-routine events or prepare for contingencies for foreseeable conditions.
• Relationship Mastery/ People Skills - Mastery to Expertise: Collaborates effectively in teams, soliciting and incorporating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, thoughts and experiences. Improves capacity for institutional success by modeling and enabling effective individual and group relationships among others.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance or accounting
• Strong technical skills in financial modelling, forecasting tools (EPM, Netsuite), and advanced excel
• Proven ability to manage complex data sets and synthesize insights for decision-making
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

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ETS is mission driven and action oriented

• We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
• We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
• As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
• The base salary range advertised represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. The base pay is only one aspect of the Total Rewards Package that will be offered to the successful candidate.

ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.