Senior Lead, Finance Business Partner
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Senior finance partner guiding Pearson's K12 assessment portfolio across School Assessment, GED, and Evaluation Systems. Shaping contracts, forecasting, investment, and performance strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead finance for Pearson's K12 Assessments portfolio, covering School Assessment, GED and Evaluation Systems
- Serve as trusted finance advisor and independent challenger to the K12 Assessments Managing Director
- Shape commercial strategy, contract strategy, pricing, investment and strategic decisions
- Own bid and renewal economics, including revenue, cost-to-serve, pricing and scope expansion analysis
- Provide forward-looking analysis of state funding, policy, demographic, pipeline and competitor trends
- Own monthly performance narratives, forecasting, variance analysis and leading-indicator reporting
- Escalate risks and opportunities early to the US K12 Executive Partner, Finance
- Oversee GED joint-venture financial governance, intercompany services, royalties and partner reporting
- Maintain the state contract portfolio and support major renewals and new-state pursuits
- Lead annual operating and long-range planning, capital allocation and investment decisions
- Define and track commercial performance metrics across the portfolio
- Develop financial frameworks, methodologies, tools, automation and AI-enabled ways of working
- Build and lead the K12 Assessments finance team, develop talent and plan succession
- Partner across US K12 Business Unit Finance, Group Finance and shared corporate functions
Requirements:
- Professional finance qualification
- Significant experience in senior finance business-partnering roles with strong commercial exposure
- Ability to influence executive stakeholders, provide independent challenge and shape strategic decisions
- Expertise in financial planning, forecasting, investment analysis and commercial performance management
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable insight
- Ability to communicate performance, risk and opportunity upward with candour and precision
- Strong understanding of materiality and ability to prioritize across competing agendas
- Ability to identify business risk early and implement mitigation
- Proven capability to build and develop high-performing, cross-cultural teams
- Enterprise mindset and comfort operating across organizational boundaries in a matrixed structure
Benefits:
- Annual incentive program
- Opportunities for personal growth and professional advancement
- Inclusive and diverse work environment
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