Director, FP&A Systems and Transformation

Coursera; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Coursera is seeking a senior FP&A leader to drive strategic transformation across a large tech organization, spanning Consumer, Enterprise, Content, Marketing, and Product. You will lead automation, analytics, and system consolidation to enable faster closes and better capital allocation.

You will manage two direct reports, partner with decentralized FP&A teams, and oversee vendor relationships during the migration from IBM Planning Analytics to Workday Adaptive Planning, ensuring governance and

Qualifications

• Progressive FP&A Experience: 10+ years in FP&A or Finance Transformation in tech.
• Experience with multi-segment tech companies and budgeting processes.
• Expertise in consolidations and enterprise planning platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic roadmap and digital transformation of FP&A function across a complex tech organization.
• Bridge technical automation and business strategy, ensuring system builds reflect segment drivers.
• Inherit dual-system landscape (TM1 and IBM Planning Analytics) and guide migration to single architecture.
• Manage day-to-day workflows for two direct reports and coordinate with decentralized FP&A teams.
• Drive automation of data pipelines and standard reporting to reduce close times.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Workday Adaptive Planning

IBM Planning Analytics TM1

Data visualization

SQL

Vendor management

Financial systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting

MBA/CPA preferred

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Data warehousing

Automation tools

Job description

About Coursera Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog 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, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning.

Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers.

Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.

Why Join Us

At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.

We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere.

If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career,

About this role

Strategic Transformation

• Lead the strategic roadmap and digital transformation of the FP&A function across a complex tech organization encompassing Consumer, Enterprise, Content, Marketing, and Product divisions.

The Translator Role

• Bridge technical automation and business strategy, ensuring system builds reflect unique segment drivers (e.g., Enterprise SaaS metrics, B2C unit economics, Content amortization schedules).

System Consolidation Strategy

• Inherit a dual-system landscape (IBM Planning Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning) to evaluate, test, and select the single go-forward enterprise architecture.

Team Leadership & Upskilling

• Lead, mentor, and cross-train an internal team of two direct reports (Systems Administrator and Analytics Specialist), keeping morale high and expanding their skill sets during platform changes.

Culture of Automation

• Drive a cultural shift away from manual spreadsheet assembly, empowering the broader FP&A team to focus on proactive, high-value strategic analysis.

About your skills

Strategic Insights & ROI Optimization

• Leverage automated reporting and financial data to surface actionable insights that drive long-term corporate strategy, optimize capital allocation, and maximize ROI across Content, Product, and Marketing investments.

Direct Team Management

• Manage day-to-day workflows for two direct reports, balancing immediate reporting and analytics demands with major project milestones for the system transition.

Bespoke Business Partnership

• Partner directly with decentralized FP&A teams across all business segments to audit their unique workflows and build tailored, automated financial modeling solutions.

Migration Execution & Vendor Management

• Direct external implementation consultants and manage vendor relationships to execute the definitive "rip and replace" system migration on time, within budget, and with zero disruption to close cycles.

Workflow & Close Optimization

• Automate data pipelines and standard reporting decks to drastically reduce monthly close and forecast cycle times.

Change Management & Governance

• Establish strict system access controls, data hierarchy standards, and cross-functional user training programs to drive company-wide platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Progressive FP&A Experience: 10+ years of experience across FP&A, Finance Transformation, or Financial Systems, ideally within a high-growth, multi-segment technology company.
• Dual System Expertise: Hands-on architectural and administrative knowledge of both Workday Adaptive Planning and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), or comparable enterprise planning platforms.
• Migration Track Record: Proven success leading end-to-end platform consolidations, vendor bake-offs, and full-lifecycle system implementations.
• People Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage and upskill technical team members through organizational change and software transitions.
• Modern Analytics Stack: Working knowledge of modern data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI), SQL, data warehousing, or automation tools, with the ability to explain technical concepts to business leaders.
• Commercial Acumen & Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field (MBA/CPA preferred), paired with a deep understanding of tech P&L drivers and subscription metrics.

Compensation

• US Zone 2: $206,125 - $242,500
• US Zone 3: $191,250- $225,000
• US Zone 4: $178,075 - $209,500

US Pay Zones US-Z1: Bay Area (within 75 miles) US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro (within 75 miles) US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI

Coursera is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request at [e-mail].

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Posting Date: August 18, 2026 We anticipate the application window will be open until September 18, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.