Strategic Finance

Primer is a growing network of K8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers thinkers and builders our schools begin with what has always worked and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.

Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.

This is a financial analysis and business partnership role at its core. Youll drive financial analysis for a national private school network that runs on PrimerOS our learning and operations management platform. Reporting to our Head of Finance youll be the strategic business partner to functional leadershelping them weigh tradeoffs assess performance and put our financial strategy into action.

• Site-level performance: partner with our state General Manager teams to own site-level forecasts enabling the company to make decisions grounded in our financial realities and strategic priorities

• Real Estate: partner with the Real Estate team to drive the completeness and accuracy of our pro-forma modeling returns forecasting and project-level budget-vs-actual analyses.

• Business partnership: partner with cross-functional teams on a variety of operational decisions by providing guidance analysis and historical financial data to inform their decisions. You might be forecasting headcount one moment and budgeting paid marketing spend the next.

• Financial operations: partner with our Controller to ensure forward-looking views tie cleanly to actuals from our accounting system.

• Reporting: support our Monthly Business Review process and own the delivery of management financial reporting both programmatic and ad hoc; support the Head of Finance with Board / investor matters from time to time.

• 10 years of progressive experience in corporate finance include experience with financial modeling and reporting; experience in finance business partnership is a plus.

• This role spans real estate capital planning business partnership and corporate finance - you should spike (have prior experience) in at least one area and be excited to become an expert at the rest.

• AI-forward: its been months since you built a model without using Claude Codex or the like. Youre oriented towards building from scratch only once.

• Resilient: we are a startup building in a complex problem space. Youll need a builder mindset bias towards enablement and willingness to learn new things.

• You bring a diplomatic and trustworthy presence to the rooms youre in; you are able to adapt your style for differing considerations and levels of financial sophistication.

• Financial acumen: youll be expected to provide clarity on decisions large and small and to do so youll need to rely on the right mix of rigorous analysis and financial intuition.

• Time spent in businesses with a real estate footprint (education QSR fitness dentistry etc.)

• Familiarity with some of: NetSuite Ramp Salesforce Hex

• You enjoy FP&A maintenance roles with limited responsibilities beyond traditional reporting calendars.

• You are unfamiliar with the scope of finance roles at startups or on lean finance teams.

• You dont enjoy the work of business building - this isnt the role for someone looking to build presentations and round to the nearest million.

• This is not an accounting role and you will not be expected to post journal entries or reconcile bank statements; however you should possess a working familiarity of foundational accounting principals.

Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive service of that we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work thats unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you wed love to see you apply.