Sr Director Corporate FP&A

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Ascend Learning, a leading healthcare and learning technology company, is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data-driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning. From testing to certification, Ascend Learning products are used by physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers.

Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America’s 2025 Greatest Workplaces as well as America’s Best Places to work for Mental Well-Being for 2025.

We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.

Ascend Learning is seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Finance who brings extensive Corporate FP&A and strategic finance leadership experience in high-growth environments. This role leads the Corporate FP&A team, building a scalable process and system foundation for planning, reporting, and analysis to provide critical information and insights for decision making. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role interacting directly with senior leaders both inside and outside of finance to shape the future of a company that is a market leader in education technology for healthcare, fitness, and wellness.

This role also interacts with Ascend's shareholder teams at Blackstone and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing business leaders with crucial insights and recommendations to drive financial and operating performance while establishing the underlying processes needed to enable this. You will partner with the businesses to sustainably generate relevant and meaningful planning, reporting, and analysis for Ascend and its segments/businesses.

You will work a hybrid schedule from our Leawood, KS office or remote within the Central or Eastern time zones in the United States.

• Providing vision and driving execution for the Corporate FP&A function. This team is transforming, having recently implemented a standard reporting and analytics tool that provides a foundation for the next phase of transformation.
• Bringing outstanding analytical capabilities. You will understand business drivers, identify what is important to analyze, and concisely communicate critical business insights both verbally and visually.
• Employing mature business analytics by fully leveraging analytical and visualization tools to drive insights and efficiency.
• Standardizing and harmonizing processes and procedures for FP&A activities while continuously identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and develop new ways to generate business insights.
• Serving as an expert on Ascend business processes and data flow as they relate to business drivers. Proactively recommend process, tool, or data flow changes to enhance information quality while considering end-to-end impacts.
• Preparing Board, senior leadership team, lender, and other reporting, including analysis that generates meaningful business insights. Establishing processes to ensure exceptional quality and efficient preparation of these materials.
• Overseeing the process, timelines, and templates for long‑range plans, budgets, and forecasts (P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow). Providing relevant analytical insights for all…