bina is a global, full-time accredited school delivering precision primary education for 4-12 year olds and their adults, everywhere. We deliver globally accredited, digitally native primary education that adapts to each child's needs. As we grow our remote-first, globally distributed team, we’re looking for a strategic, systems-minded Finance Manager to upgrade our financial operations with accuracy, punctuality, and efficiency.
This is a great opportunity to architect how a new form of schooling manages its financial backbone—streamlining operations, ensuring compliance, and creating real-time financial visibility so that every resource contributes to joyful, quality education at scale.
We are looking for applicants who can start in September or October and can work full-time in Afro-European timezones (GMT +0:00 to GMT +2:00) or Eastern Timezone (GMT -3:00 to GMT -5:00).
What is bina?
We're creating joy and quality educational outcomes at scale. We offer a fully synchronous digital primary school with micro-classrooms of seven students from different corners of the globe, learning together with top-notch teachers. We go beyond academics, focusing on social-emotional learning and cultural and environmental awareness through biome-themed units. We're curating an intuitive educational experience by integrating Ed-tech tools, research, and content. It's a sleek schooling experience for students, educators, and families.
What does bina's Finance Manager do?
As the Finance Manager you'd support bina with providing accurate, robust, and timely information. You will help design and implement foundational finance systems that are scalable, compliant, and data-driven. You’ll bring structure to ambiguity, automate financial workflows, and create visibility into costs and resources—enabling smarter, faster decision-making across the organisation.
🔧 Key Responsibilities
🧮 Financial Operations & Compliance
- Be the principal supplier of financial information internally and for stakeholders including current and potential investors.
- Lead financial reporting regularity through monthly management accounts and annual statutory requirements
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations requirements when applicable
- Manage day-to-day financial operations, including invoicing, payroll, reimbursements, and other payments
📊 Tracking, Modeling & Reporting
- Build and maintain dashboards for expenses, payroll, and budget tracking
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling to help leadership make data-driven decisions
- Provide real-time visibility into spending, forecasts, and resource allocation
⚙️ Process Improvement & Automation
- Introduce and maintain finance automation tools to reduce manual work
- Continuously improve workflows to increase accuracy and scalability
You will be a great fit if you…
- Track record of delivering high quality, timely cross functional financial information
- Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration, or a related field
- Proven experience in billing, invoicing, expense, and payroll management
- Experience in financial systems management, process automation, and data stewardship will be a great plus
- Passion for building accounting and finance as a data-driven, strategic function
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Excellent time management and ability to follow through multiple projects at the same time
- Comfortable operating in a start-up environment
- If you have a CPA you get extra brownie points
What can you expect from us?
- Annual compensation of $55K USD
- A position at the forefront of global education innovation, with substantial opportunities for growth and impact. The team is young and growing.
- A flexible, fully remote work environment that allows you to work from (almost!) anywhere in the world (all you need is strong internet, a clean quiet room, and to come to your meetings on time)
- Join a vibrant, diverse team that is transforming education for learners globally.
