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Scholastic

Senior Manager, Labor Planning and Analysis

🇺🇸 Hybrid - SoHo, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $121K - $145K

💻 Finance

🗓️ July 29th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Scholastic is hiring a Senior Manager, Labor Planning and Analysis. The role involves managing workforce planning data, collaborating with business partners on incentive planning, serving as a financial liaison for labor and health-related costs, and supporting the creation of the annual operating plan and quarterly forecasting.

Highlights
  • Manage and reconcile workforce planning data aligned with financial plans and forecasts.
  • Collaborate on company-wide incentive planning, including forecasting and reporting bonus programs.
  • Act as financial liaison for labor inquiries between business partners and HR.
  • Support Finance and Executives in annual operating plans and vendor spend analysis for about 10 departments.
  • Handle financial aspects of health and welfare costs, working with vendors like United Healthcare and Express Scripts while ensuring HIPAA compliance.
  • Process journal entries to reflect accurate financial transactions and investigate variance explanations in coordination with global teams.
  • Analyze Non-Employee Labor costs during planning and forecasting.
  • Require proficiency in financial analysis, workforce planning, and interpreting complex medical and Rx claims data.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field, with 8-10 years of relevant experience.
  • Annual salary range of $121,000 to $145,000, with benefits including health coverage, 401(k), tuition-free programs, parental leave, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Senior Manager, Labor Planning and Analysis Full Description

Senior Manager, Labor Planning and Analysis
Newark, New Jersey
Full time

Job Description:

NOTE: This role is based in NYC and requires a minimum of three days a week in the SoHo, NY office.

THE OPPORTUNITY
The role will focus on FP&A and Labor Planning and Analysis, aligning with our new business needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Managing and reconciling workforce planning (WFP) data ensuring financial alignment as it pertains to the annual operating plan (AOP) and quarterly forecasting
  • Collaborate with business partners to create and effectively manage company-wide incentive planning process, in addition to developing effective reporting tools to support this initiative.  This includes, but is not limited to, forecasting, managing and reconciling short-term incentive programs, retention, and other bonus programs. Report results compared to plan (monthly) and submit monthly forecasts to Treasury.
  • Serve as financial liaison for labor related matters/inquires that may ensue from discussions held between various business partners and HR (planning and actualization)
  • Collaborate with Finance and Executive business partners to create the annual operating plan (AOP) and quarterly forecasting. Create monthly reporting, including but not limited to, vendor spend and account analysis/reconciliation, and provide timely proactive feedback and recommendations for cost containment (for approximately 10 department heads)
  • Finance liaison for health and welfare costs supporting both internal and external partners (3rd party vendors). This includes, but not limited to, the following key responsibilities:
    • Liaison with United Healthcare, Surest, and Express Scripts to analyze costs while complying with HIPPA regulations
    • Stop loss analysis
    • Collaboration with Corporate Benefits
    • Tracking and analysis of other health & welfare expenses
  • Booking journal entries to accurately reflect financial transactions and researching variances against the AOP/forecasts in conjunction with coordinating these jobs with Malaysia
  • Consolidation and analyzing Non-Employee Labor during AOP/forecasts

About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Some benefits that we offer:
  • Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)
  • Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions
  • Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees
  • Generous Parental Leave Program
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount
Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.
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Qualifications

HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)
Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
  • Proven experience in workforce planning, financial analysis, or similar role
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data (i.e. medical and Rx claims)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication is a must

Experience: 8-10 years

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular

Job Family Group:

Finance

Location Region/State:

New Jersey

Compensation Range:

Annual Salary: 121,000.00 - 145,000.00

EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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