Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer

Location:

Remote, United States Type:
Full-Time, Exempt

Reports To:

Chief Executive Officer About BAM!

Brains & Motion Education (BAM!) is one of the fastest-growing providers of after school enrichment and summer camps. We spark joy and ignite potential in tens of thousands of students through high-energy STEM challenges, character-building sports, and imaginative arts projects.

Most of the children we serve attend schools in low-income communities. Their families cannot buy a seat in a robotics club, a travel soccer program, or art classes. Children in high-poverty districts deserve the same quality of coaching, the same materials, the same energy from the adult in the room, and the same high expectations as children whose parents pay for enrichment every month.

We design and deliver our programs to that standard.

We also work in one of the most compelling corners of education right now. States and districts have made “expanded learning” a durable public priority, and California alone has built it into an ongoing multi-billion-dollar commitment to after school and summer programming for its youngest students. That combination is rare: a mission with genuine urgency, a growing market with real public funding behind it, and a direct line between how well we run the business and how many kids we can support.

About the Role This role owns finance for BAM!, at a company whose revenue and staffing are highly seasonal: enrollment and cash collections concentrate around the school year and, especially, the summer camp season, while hiring, working-capital needs, and program costs ramp sharply each spring. You will build the financial infrastructure that lets BAM! grow with discipline through that seasonality: forecasting and planning, accounting and controls, cash management, and reliable reporting that leaders, the Board, and investors can trust.

California is where we run the majority of our after school programs, summer camps, and child care programs, and where we anchor the bulk of our banking and audit work. We also run after school programs and seasonal summer camps in other states, so the job includes multi-state tax, licensing-linked financial reporting, and revenue recognition across programs that open and close on different calendars.

Our full-time corporate staff work fully remotely, and we hire them anywhere in the United States.

You will report directly to the CEO and work closely with the Board on strategy, planning, capital, and financial governance. You will also partner closely with our HR & Employment Compliance Manager, who reports to you with a dotted line to the CEO. Finance and HR share benefits strategy and renewals (including the 401(k)), people policies with financial impact such as travel and reimbursement, seasonal headcount and payroll planning, and payroll forecasting and approval.

HR leads on people, policy, payroll tax, and employment compliance; you bring the analysis, the controls, and the corporate filings. Finance also manages company administration: state registrations, licensing, company insurance, and triage of corporate mail and notices. The right person brings rigorous financial controls and forecasting discipline to a mission-driven, fast-growing organization, without slowing down the people engaging directly with the students.

What You'll Own Financial Strategy & Planning Annual budgeting, predictive rolling forecasts, and long-range planning across a multi-program, multi-state portfolio with sharply seasonal revenue.

Board-ready financial reporting and KPI dashboards, including unit economics by program, customer/camp, and state.

Pricing strategy and margin analysis for after school programs and summer camp programs, both school-paid and…