Senior Finance Manager

ABOUT US: Brisk Teaching is the leading AI platform for K-12 educators, empowering teachers to deliver personalized, curriculum-aligned instruction at scale. Our Classroom Intelligence tools connect teachers, students, and curriculum—making meaningful learning happen in classrooms every day. We believe the best technology is cutting-edge, respects teachers’ time, integrates into real classrooms, and helps educators focus on what matters most. Since launching, Brisk has experienced rapid growth. Over 2 million teachers use our platform, and we partner with districts and schools nationwide to transform how educators teach and how students learn. We're backed by leading venture and edtech investors including Bessemer Venture Partners (Shopify, LinkedIn, Anthropic, Perplexity) and Owl Ventures (Newsela, Quizlet, MasterClass), with a team spanning top AI companies and real classroom experience. We're a fast-moving, collaborative team driven by a shared commitment to educator impact and product excellence. Our values—urgency, ownership, and focus—shape how we build and who we are. THE OPPORTUNITY: We run a lean operations team that covers finance, people, legal, IT, and business operations for the entire company. We don't have layers of management or detailed playbooks for every scenario — we figure things out, build the right system, and move on to the next problem. You'll thrive here if you like owning your work end-to-end and bringing your own structure to open-ended problems. As Senior Finance Manager, you'll own finance operations and financial planning across the company. You'll drive budget accountability with department leads, build the models that inform how we spend and grow, and manage the vendors and procurement processes that keep the business running efficiently. You'll report to our Head of Operations and partner closely with our fractional CFO, but day-to-day you'll operate with a high degree of autonomy — identifying what needs to happen, building the approach, and driving it to completion. This is a small team that punches well above its weight, and we use AI aggressively to stay that way. You should be the kind of person who reaches for Claude or builds a workflow before defaulting to a spreadsheet and manual effort. YOU WILL: Finance operations - Own accounts receivable end-to-end, including billing, collections, and reconciliation. - Manage accounts payable, including invoice processing and vendor payments. - Manage the relationship with our external bookkeeper and tax advisors, serving as the primary internal point of contact for routine finance, tax, and compliance work — including monthly close support, reconciliation, and renewal coordination. - Administer our expense platform (Ramp), including program enforcement, policy compliance, and user management. - Own Brisk's compliance calendar — track annual renewals across state registrations, foreign qualifications, registered agent filings, business licenses, and sales tax permits, ensuring nothing lapses. Financial planning & analysis - Own monthly budget reviews with department budget owners, driving variance analysis and accountability. - Co-own the monthly finance review with our fractional CFO, surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities. - Prepare investor metrics and board-ready financial materials on a quarterly cadence. - Support annual and H2 planning cycles, including headcount modeling and opex forecasting. - Build and maintain financial models that support leadership decision-making and long-range planning. Procurement & vendor management - Own vendor evaluation, renewals, and ongoing relationship management across the company's vendor portfolio. - Drive procurement process improvements that reduce spend and increase rigor. - Partner with Legal Ops on contracting, negotiation, and vendor compliance. Cross-functional operations - Take on process improvement projects that increase operational efficiency across the company. - Contribute to strategic pl