Lead Financial Analyst – Finance Business Partner

We have two FP&A positions available each with similar qualifications but different scopes. Please take a moment to review both and apply to the one that aligns best with your interests.

Who We Are

Great Minds is a highgrowth missiondriven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a forprofit Public Benefit Corporation we believe all students deserve access to meaningful challenging contentand all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive effective and built for the realities of todays classrooms.

We develop highquality knowledgerich math science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.

We are committed to usability coherence and practical implementationsupporting teachers not just through curriculum but with professional learning purposeful technology and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.

What We Build

Our productsEureka Math and Eureka Math Wit & Wisdom PhD Science Geodes and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELAare trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S. and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding procedural fluency and application.

• Wit & Wisdom and Arts & Letters ELA anchor our reading strategy with contentrich gradelevel instruction that integrates literature history and the arts grounded in the science of reading. Geodes complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.

• PhD Science is a handson K5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.

These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations joyful rigor and deep respect for educators and students.

Where Were Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected customerinformed experiences across the full educator journeyfrom curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our longterm vision is to become a true partner in impactnot just delivering curriculum but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

Finance business partners empower financially sound planning and decision making throughout the organization. You will enable decision makers to make sound financial decisions more independently by leveraging tools forecasting models and reports to simplify FP&A analysis into easily digestible business logic. Leaders will also rely on you as a soughtafter thoughtpartner for strategic decisions and for insights that help achieve performance targets and outcomes.

Responsibilities

1. Develop FP&A acumen with leaders through handson realtime decision support:

   1. Deliver handson coaching to help decision makers apply FP&A thinking in realtime business decisions.

   2. Communicate insights clearly through visuals and storytelling to drive alignment and action.

   3. Challenge assumptions through structured problemsolving and root cause analysis to introduce a finance lens.

   4. Train stakeholders on valuedriver trees to connect operational decisions to enterprise value.

   5. Boost financial data literacy by translating complex models into plain business language and supporting realtime learning.

2. Assess and anticipate decision makers needs:

   1. Build close partnerships with executives to proactively identify financial needs and deliver targeted FP&A support.

   1. Uncover unmet needs from non executive stakeholders to guide development of decision tools and services.

   1. Drive fast iterative improvements through ongoing feedback and direct engagement.

3. Provide indepth highly personalized decision support to executive decision makers:

   1. Help executives determine where to relentlessly triage to drive enterprise value or mitigate risk

   1. Monitor leading indicators to identify initiative delivery risks and operational performance gaps drive action or provide alternative approaches.

4. Provide direct FP&A support to decision makers:

   1. Drive key conversations during the budgeting process engage in budget pressuretesting providing FP&A expertise to ensure stakeholders understand potential risks and constraints.

   2. Help stakeholders create business cases outlining their benefits costs and risks; and provide recommendations to secure adequate funding and approval.

   3. Assist in identifying performance issues and provide help in coursecorrecting (gaptogoal adjustments).

5. Equip leaders will tooling reporting and dashboards that enable evidencebased decision making.

   1. Work with technology teams to ensure that decision support tools provide actionable advice for a variety of operational and strategic decisions.

   1. Be the voice of the internal customer in meetings with FP&A and technology teams to help design intuitive reports analyses and dashboards that meet the needs of non executive decision makers.

6. Drive decision maker adoption of decision support tools:

   1. Embed decision support tools that meet stakeholders where they aretailoring functionality language and value stories to build trust and drive adoption.

Requirements

• 7 years of corporate FP&A experience ideally at a midtolarge company with a background that includes an early career in Accounting and progression into FP&A.

• Financial planning and analysis expertise: Expert knowledge of financial planning; budgeting; and forecasting processes including the ability to drive continuous improvement in these areas. Deep understanding of the P&L and balance sheet KPI driver maps and reporting methodologies. Accounting acumen is a requirement.

• Strategic thinking and business acumen: Deep understanding of revenue drivers sales optimization margin management and metrics cascades to provide insightful performance inflecting decision support to business leaders

• Communication and storytelling: Excellent storytelling communication and presentation skills to effectively convey financial insights analysis and recommendations to decision makers

• Advanced technology literacy/proficiency: Ability to exploit digital technologies to drive better outcomes for finance and the business. Understanding of emerging technologies to effectively communicate and drive tool requirement discussions with the IT team. Deploy Advanced Excel skills; confident in PowerQuery PowerPivot and DAX formulas. Experience with PowerBI or similar BI tools.

• Financial coaching and training: Competence in coaching and training decision makers to internalize and apply FP&A concepts

• Problemsolving: Ability to challenge assumptions teach problem analysis techniques to decision makers and identify root causes and develop effective solutions

• Relationship building and collaboration: Proven ability to build strong relationships with business unit leaders and stakeholders. Active listening skills to uncover latent needs and opportunities for support. Ability to collaborate with FP&A and technology teams to design intuitive reports analyses and dashboards

• Continuous improvement: Ability to define success criteria and establish measurable metrics for monitoring tool utilization and quality. Ability to work effectively on a team that uses agile principles to continuously iterate the delivery and development of financial tools and solutions

Required Education

Bachelors degree in a relevant field such as finance or accounting. Masters Degree preferred.

Status

Fulltime

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $102000$112000 however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including but not limited to location work experience skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

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Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race religion color sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin disability age genetic information or any other status protected under applicable federal state or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organizations commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

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