[Hiring] Lead Specialist, Finance Business Partner @Pearson

Role Description

Provide strategic financial support to Pearson’s US Higher Education Portfolio and Content teams, combining disciplined FP&A ownership with commercially focused analysis that shapes investment and growth decisions.

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Finance Business Partner to provide proactive and strategic financial support to its US Higher Education Commercial Portfolio and Content teams. You will own foundational planning and reporting processes while developing the analytical insight that helps the business assess opportunity, profitability, and performance.

This role is embedded in the business and works across Portfolio, Content, Finance, and cross-functional partners. It blends core FP&A, financial modelling and commercial strategy, with autonomy to improve models, automate reporting, and develop forward-looking views.

What You’ll Do

• Own the annual operating expense budget and rolling forecast.
• Own capital investment budget and forecasting, including risks, trade-offs and prioritization.
• Build, maintain and present monthly reporting for business stakeholders.
• Support revenue planning and analysis. Own the core revenue model.
• Build and improve revenue, gross-margin and profitability models.
• Provide ad hoc analysis that puts numbers around strategic and commercial decisions.
• Partner directly with business leaders across investment, pricing, channel and growth decisions.
• Use advanced Excel, data and AI-enabled approaches to improve speed, quality and insight.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, corporate finance or comparable experience.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting and business-planning experience.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability, including driver-based models.
• Commercial curiosity and confidence working directly with business leaders.
• Strong communication and financial storytelling for non-finance audiences.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership and autonomy.
• Experience operating across multiple stakeholders in a matrix or global organization.
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve finance work.
• Education, publishing, subscription, platform or SaaS experience is helpful, not essential.

Requirements

• Location: United States, remote.
• East Coast time zone is preferred, but candidates in other US locations may be considered.

Benefits

• Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location.
• The minimum full-time salary range is between $89,600 - 166,400.
• This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
• Information on benefits offered is available.

Company Description

Applications will be accepted through October 25th. This window may be extended depending on business needs.