Great Minds
Lead Financial Analyst - Corporate FP&A
🇺🇸 Remote - Washington, DC
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $102K - $112K
💻 Finance
🗓️ May 13th, 2025
K-5
PowerBI
Edtech.com's Summary
Great Minds is hiring a Lead Financial Analyst. This role involves conducting high-impact financial analysis and modeling to inform business decisions, developing balance sheet forecasts, and creating executive-ready dashboards. The Lead Financial Analyst will also utilize tools like PowerBI and Adaptive Planning to drive business performance and support cross-functional teams.
Highlights
- Develop and maintain detailed financial models and forecasts.
- Utilize PowerBI and Excel with advanced features like PowerQuery, PowerPivot, and DAX formulas.
- Manage the development of scalable forecasting and planning processes.
- Collaborate with teams for rigorous financial analysis and proforma modeling.
- The salary range is $102,000-$112,000, dependent on various factors.
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting required; Master's preferred.
- Full-time position with a minimum of 7 years of corporate FP&A experience needed.
- Work in a high-growth, transformation-oriented environment.
Lead Financial Analyst - Corporate FP&A Full Description
Lead Financial Analyst - Corporate FP&A
Remote
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Accounting & Finance
Job description
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 high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.
We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich 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 implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.
What We Build
Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA—are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.
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 high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.
We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich 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 implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.
What We Build
Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA—are 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 content-rich, grade-level 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 hands-on K-5 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 We’re Headed
Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.
Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.
Job Purpose
We’re looking for a Lead Financial Analyst to take point on high-impact financial analysis and modeling that informs decision-making across the business. This role sits within our FP&A team and is ideal for someone who thrives on turning complex financial data into insights, driving business performance, and building scalable models.
You’ll own the development of balance sheet forecasts, scenario planning, and executive-ready dashboards that help us see around corners. You’ll also be a key partner to our Finance and cross-functional teams, ensuring we’re leveraging the full power of tools like PowerBI, Adaptive Planning and other modeling tools.
You’ll own the development of balance sheet forecasts, scenario planning, and executive-ready dashboards that help us see around corners. You’ll also be a key partner to our Finance and cross-functional teams, ensuring we’re leveraging the full power of tools like PowerBI, Adaptive Planning and other modeling tools.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain detailed financial models, especially balance sheet and cash flow forecasts.
- Lead the development of forecasting and planning processes that scale with the business.
- Own and evolve dashboards and reporting tools in PowerBI, with strong use of PowerQuery and PowerPivot.
- Plays pivotal role in the development, automation, and scalability of key reports, presentations, and analyses to support external stakeholders and Board reporting
- Translate financial data into clear business insights and storylines for Finance and business leadership.
- Partner across the organization to support initiatives that require rigorous financial analysis and proforma modeling.
- Identify and implement process improvements that streamline planning, reporting, and forecasting.
Job requirements
Requirements
- 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, ideally at a mid-to-large company, with a background that includes an early career in Accounting and progression into FP&A.
- Experience with balance sheet modeling, asset management, proforma modelling and working with large data sets.
- Advanced Excel skills; confident in PowerQuery, PowerPivot, and DAX formulas.
- Experience with PowerBI or similar BI tools.
- Strong analytical thinking paired with excellent communication skills—you’re as comfortable building a model as you are explaining it to a non-finance audience.
- A builder’s mindset—comfortable leading workstreams independently and driving them to completion.
- Experience in a high-growth or transformation-oriented environment.
Required Education
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as finance or accounting. Master’s Degree preferred.
Status
Full-time
Location
Remote
The expected base salary range for this position is $102,000-$112,000, 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.
Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact security@greatminds.org
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 organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.
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