Director, Strategic Finance & Capital Markets

Director, Strategic Finance & Capital Markets

US
- Central US Region; US
- East Coast Region

World Strides is the global leader in educational travel and experiential learning. The company was founded in 1967 to provide middle school travel programs to Washington, D.C. and has grown to provide a wide range of programs for more than half a million students annually to over 100 countries around the world. World Strides offers experiential learning programs in educational travel, performing arts, language immersion, career exploration, service-learning, study abroad, and sports.

Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world – and themselves – in new ways.

World Strides is seeking a Director, Strategic Finance & Capital Markets to lead enterprise-wide cash flow forecasting, capital structure modeling, and liquidity risk management. This role will serve as the company’s center of excellence for cash, debt, and covenant analytics, supporting executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and external financing partners with high-quality models, insights, and materials.

This position plays a critical role in enabling disciplined growth, strengthening balance sheet visibility, and ensuring proactive management of liquidity and covenant considerations in a highly seasonal, working-capital-intensive business.

• Own and continuously enhance the company’s integrated three-statement, cash flow, and liquidity models
  , with increasing account-level detail and forecasting precision
• Model seasonal cash dynamics, including deposits, deferred revenue, working capital, and capital expenditures
• Develop and own detailed multi-tranche debt schedules (e.g., revolvers, term loans) and interest modeling
• Build pro forma capital structures to evaluate refinancings, growth initiatives, and strategic investments
• Own a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast to support near‑term liquidity planning

• Own a comprehensive covenant compliance and sensitivity model
  , including EBITDA definitions, add‑backs, and downside scenarios
• Proactively identify and communicate liquidity and covenant risks, including clear scenario narratives and mitigation considerations
• Support lender reporting, data requests, and financing‑related analyses, including amendment and refinancing support

• Prepare Board‑level financial models, analyses, and presentations related to liquidity, capital structure, and strategic finance topics
• Produce lender‑facing materials with a high standard of accuracy, clarity, and professionalism
• Support interactions with Investors and Lenders

• Partner closely with FP&A and business leaders to translate volume, pricing, staffing, and cost drivers into cash flow and EBITDA implications
• Connect operational and strategic plans to long‑term liquidity, covenant, and capital allocation forecasts
• Improve analytical rigor in cash flow and debt modeling
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on liquidity risk, capital allocation trade‑offs and downside scenarios by driving clear recommendations supported by clear analysis

• Build and evaluate acquisition, divestiture, and build‑versus‑buy models
• Assess purchase price, financing mix, synergies, operating leverage, payback, and value creation
• Integrate approved transactions into enterprise cash flow and debt models
• 4 years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, leveraged finance, or corporate development
  , including early career experience in private equity, or investment banking
• Advanced expertise in three‑statement financial modeling
  , cash flow forecasting, and debt/capital structure modeling and experience with modern FP&A, BI, or ERP tools
• Experience proactively driving Board‑level and Lender‑facing financial analysis and presentations
• Strong ability to synthesize complex financial concepts into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership
• Comfort working in a fast‑paced, high accountability environment with tight…