Job Details:

Salary Range: Undisclosed

Location: Remote, United States

Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer

About BAM! Brains & Motion Education (BAM!)

BAM! is one of the fastest-growing providers of afterschool enrichment and summer camps. We spark joy and ignite potential in tens of thousands of students through high-energy STEM challenges, character-building sports, and imaginative arts projects. Most of the children we serve attend schools in low-income communities. Their families cannot buy a seat in a robotics club, a travel soccer program, or art classes. Children in high-poverty districts deserve the same quality of coaching, the same materials, the same energy from the adult in the room, and the same high expectations as children whose parents pay for enrichment every month. We design and deliver our programs to that standard.

We also work in one of the most compelling corners of education right now. States and districts have made “expanded learning” a durable public priority, and California alone has built it into an ongoing multi-billion-dollar commitment to afterschool and summer programming for its youngest students. That combination is rare: a mission with genuine urgency, a growing market with real public funding behind it, and a direct line between how well we run the business and how many kids we can support.

About the Role

This role owns finance for BAM!, at a company whose revenue and staffing are highly seasonal: enrollment and cash collections concentrate around the school year and, especially, the summer camp season, while hiring, working-capital needs, and program costs ramp sharply each spring. You will build the financial infrastructure that lets BAM! grow with discipline through that seasonality: forecasting and planning, accounting and controls, cash management, and reliable reporting that leaders, the Board, and investors can trust.

California is where we run the majority of our afterschool programs, summer camps, and child care programs, and where we anchor the bulk of our banking and audit work. We also run afterschool programs and seasonal summer camps in other states, so the job includes multi-state tax, licensing-linked financial reporting, and revenue recognition across programs that open and close on different calendars. Our full-time corporate staff work fully remotely, and we hire them anywhere in the United States. You will report directly to the CEO and work closely with the Board on strategy, planning, capital, and financial governance. You will also partner closely with our HR & Employment Compliance Manager, who reports to you with a dotted line to the CEO.

What You'll Own

• Financial Strategy & Planning: Annual budgeting, predictive rolling forecasts, and long-range planning across a multi-program, multi-state portfolio with sharply seasonal revenue.
• Accounting, Controls & Compliance: Monthly close, GAAP-compliant financial statements, and internal controls that scale with headcount and site count.
• Treasury & Cash Management: Cash flow forecasting and working-capital management through BAM!'s seasonal cycle.
• Risk, Insurance & Vendor Oversight: General liability, workers' compensation, automobile, and youth-program-specific insurance coverage and renewals across all operating states.
• People & Org Leadership: Direct management of accounting and finance staff and outsourced partners, with oversight growing alongside the company.
• Board & Executive Partnership: Preparation of Board materials, financial packages, and strategic recommendations.

What You Bring

Commitment to the mission. You want your financial work to widen access for children in low-income communities, and you carry that conviction through strong seasons and hard ones. 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including as a CFO, VP Finance, or Head of Finance who has owned forecasting, board reporting, and the accounting function, ideally at a multi-site, seasonal company of similar scale.

Requirements

This role is fully remote, and we welcome candidates anywhere in the United States. You must be able to travel occasionally for Board meetings, key partner relationships, and periodic in-person working time with the CEO, who is based in the Washington, DC, area.

Why BAM!

Your work reaches kids directly. Every point of margin you find, every week you cut off the close, and every forecast you sharpen turns into programs we can staff and children we can serve. Finance is upstream of the mission here, not adjacent to it. Own a piece of the outcome. This role carries a stock option grant, so the value you build shows up in what you own and not only in what we pay you.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary of $200,000 to $275,000; annual performance bonus target of 25% of base salary; stock option grant. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), basic life and AD&D, voluntary short-term disability, voluntary additional life/AD&D, voluntary hospital indemnity, and a generous PTO policy.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Brains and Motion Education is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.