Director, FP&A Systems and Transformation

Coursera; United States; On-site; USD 178,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU equity programs

Competitive bonus

Job summary

Coursera is seeking a Senior FP&A Transformation Leader to drive strategic roadmap and digital transformation across a complex tech organization. You will bridge automation and business strategy, ensuring the new planning architecture reflects unique segment drivers and delivers enterprise-wide value.

Lead a small team, coordinate with decentralized FP&A partners, and manage a vendor-driven migration to a single, future-ready planning platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FP&A, Finance Transformation, or Financial Systems in a high-growth tech company.
• Hands-on architectural/administrative knowledge of Workday Adaptive Planning and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1).
• Proven success leading end-to-end platform consolidations and vendor bake-offs.
• Experience leading teams through organizational change and software transitions.
• Knowledge of modern analytics stack: Tableau/Power BI, SQL, data warehousing, automation tools.
• MBA/CPA preferred; deep understanding of tech P&L drivers and subscription metrics.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Insights & ROI Optimization: use automated reporting and financial data to drive long-term corporate strategy and capital allocation.
• Direct Team Management: oversee day-to-day workflows for two reports, balancing ops with major migration milestones.
• Bespoke Business Partnership: collaborate with FP&A teams to map workflows and build automated financial models.
• Migration Execution & Vendor Management: lead external consultants and manage vendors for the definitive system migration.
• Workflow & Close Optimization: automate data pipelines and standard reports to shorten monthly close and forecast cycles.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Communication

Change management

Automation concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/IS

MBA/CPA preferred

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Job description

About Coursera + Udemy

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

Why join us now?

AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.

About Coursera + Udemy

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

Why join us now?

AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.

Shape What Comes Next

By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.

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

About Your Skills

What you’ll be doing

• 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.

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

At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.

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

Posting Date: September 21, 2026

We anticipate the application window will be open until September 30, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.

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