Lead Financial Analyst
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
The Lead Financial Analyst serves as a key technical and analytical contributor within the Strategic Finance team, strengthening modeling capabilities, sharpening financial insights, and supporting efficient planning across the organization. This role enhances long-range planning, capital investment analysis, and forecasting by building robust financial models, improving data accessibility, and delivering clear, actionable insights that inform strategic and operational decisions.
The analyst will contribute to ongoing enhancements of financial systems and tools, including preparation for future implementations of NetSuite and Anaplan, and help improve how financial performance, operational data, and long-term outcomes are connected and communicated.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain complex, driver-based financial models that support forecasting, multi-year planning, scenario analysis, and investment or business case evaluation.
Translate market insights, operational drivers, and performance trends into clear financial insights that inform strategic and operational planning discussions.
Support financial evaluation of business cases and capital investments by modeling returns, cost structures, risks, sensitivities, and long-term value implications.
Support capital budgeting processes through financial analysis, project tracking, and linkage of results to broader financial plans.
Improve the efficiency and accuracy of forecasting and planning by streamlining workflows, strengthening model architecture, and reducing manual effort through automation and smart tooling.
Leverage strong analytical and data skills, including advanced Excel, data transformation tools, and familiarity with BI outputs, to deliver meaningful insights and performance reporting.
Identify leading indicators, emerging risks, and performance gaps, and surface findings and recommendations that support informed decision-making.
Provide high-quality FP&A partnership by pressure-testing assumptions, identifying value drivers, and helping decision makers understand financial risks, trade-offs, and constraints.
Participate in the design, testing, and rollout of financial systems and planning tools, contributing to model validation and supporting alignment of workflows and data structures with business needs.
Create intuitive visualizations and reporting that help stakeholders quickly understand trends, outcomes, and key decision points.
