Sr Financial Analyst

HMH • Full-time • None • $80,000 - $85,000 / year • 1h ago

Fast Facts

HMH is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join their Decision Support team, focusing on operating expense and labor management to optimize resource allocation across the organization.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include supporting monthly close activities, analyzing operating expenses and labor variances, building expense forecast models, and preparing executive summaries.

Skills: Required skills are 3-5+ years of FP&A or financial analysis experience, strong Excel skills, and familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in expense management, workforce planning, and advanced financial modeling tools like Anaplan and PowerBI.

Location: US

Compensation: $80000 - $85000 / Annually

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Senior Financial Analyst | Decision Support

Overview:

HMH is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Decision Support team within Corporate FP&A, focused on enterprise operating expense and labor management. This role partners closely with corporate and functional leaders to plan, forecast, analyze, and optimize operating expenses, headcount, and discretionary spend across the organization.

Primary Focus Areas:

- Operating Expense (OpEx)

- Fixed and Variable Labor

- Headcount and Workforce Planning

- Maintenance/Software Contract Support

- Cost Control and Efficiency Initiatives

Key Responsibilities:

- Support monthly close, annual budget, and quarterly forecast activities for operating and labor expenses

- Analyze OpEx and labor variances, identify key drivers, and provide actionable insights

- Build and maintain expense forecast models, including scenario analysis

- Monitor cost trends, run rates, and forecast accuracy

- Support headcount planning and labor-related financial reporting

- Prepare executive-ready summaries and presentations

- Identify process improvement and automation opportunities

Required Qualifications:

- 3–5+ years of experience in FP&A or financial analysis with a focus on expenses or labor

- Strong understanding of operating expense and labor economics

- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

- Experience with ERP systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, or similar)

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

- Expense management experience supporting HR, Legal, Operations/Supply Chain, and/or Corporate Affairs/Marketing

- Experience with workforce planning or expense modeling

- Experience with Anaplan, PowerBI, SQL, or VBA/Macros

- MBA, CMA and/or CPA

Salary Range:

$80 - 85,000

HMH is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, ethnic/national origin, ancestry, age, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, citizenship status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran, other covered veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity. We actively participate in E-Verify.

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