Senior Lead, Finance Business Partner

Job-:
Enterprise

Location:

United States;
United Kingdom Workplace:
Remote

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Closes:
Role Purpose Lead finance for K12 Assessments — the largest assessment business in the new US K12 Business Unit, spanning three market-leading franchises:
School Assessment (end-to-end state summative assessment programs), GED (the leading US high-school-equivalency credential which operates under a joint venture agreement), and Evaluation Systems (educator licensure and certification assessment). Together these businesses hold deep, long-term relationships with state education agencies across the country.

This is a highly commercial leadership role: the lead finance business partner to the K12 Assessments Managing Director and the senior finance voice on the Leadership Team. The portfolio combines three distinct business models — long-term custom service contracts, high-volume transactional testing, and candidate-funded certification programs — and the role owns the financial, commercial and strategic agenda across all three, shaping contract, pricing and investment decisions, not just reporting them.

The role carries a dual accountability that defines success: drive the business forward with the MD, and keep the US K12 Executive Partner, Finance ahead of events — a transparent, no-surprises flow of performance, risks and opportunities, elevated early and framed with options.

Scope & Impact Copilot to the Managing Director — trusted advisor providing independent challenge and strategic guidance on commercial performance, contract strategy and strategic outcomes.

Connector across the K12 Assessments Leadership Team, ensuring alignment, consistency and transparency on capital allocation, prioritization and the balance of risk and reward across three businesses.

Owner of the performance narrative — sharpen reporting and forecasting so decisions are made on leading indicators, not lagging results, and so the US K12 Business Unit always has an accurate, current view of each business.

Custodian of the business's assets, managing risk and sustaining a strong compliance and controls culture across government contracts and joint-venture obligations.

Leader of a high-performing finance team, developing talent and raising the analytical bar.

Key Responsibilities Commercial partnering

Partner with the MD and Leadership Team to shape commercial strategy, ensuring decisions are grounded in robust financial insight and a clear view of each business's unit economics.

Own the financial lens on the portfolio's core economic drivers: contract wins, renewals and lifetime value; test volumes and price realization; candidate conversion and attach economics; cost-to-serve and content investment returns.

Build rigorous bid and renewal economics — incremental revenue versus incremental cost-to-serve on state RFPs, pricing posture by contract, and disciplined evaluation of scope expansion opportunities within existing programs.

Bring a forward-looking, external perspective — state funding and policy developments, demographic and pipeline trends, competitor performance — and translate it into implications for plans and pricing.

Performance, transparency & escalation

Operate a no-surprises partnership with the US K12 Executive Partner, Finance: early elevation of emerging risks and opportunities — including contract renewals, state budget developments and policy changes — quantified and framed with recommended actions.

Own the monthly performance narrative for K12 Assessments: drivers and variances versus plan, forecast movements and the leading indicators behind them, communicated with clarity to the MD, the Business Unit and Group.

Bring discipline to revenue forecasting across three distinct models — long-term…