Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis

POSITION:
Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis DEPARTMENT:
Finance

LOCATION:

Great Hearts America Home Office / Hybrid, as assigned

REPORTS TO:

Chief Financial Officer FLSA STATUS:
Exempt, Full-time Salary range $165,000 - $ 180,000

Great Hearts Academies is the largest network of classical K-12 schools in the country with academies across Arizona, Louisiana, and Texas. With a mission to cultivate the minds and hearts of students through the pursuit of Truth, Goodness and Beauty, we believe the highest goal of education is to become good, intellectually, and morally. Additional information can be found at http://www.greatheartsamerica.org/.

• Comprehensive Health Coverage:
  Exceptional medical, dental, and vision insurance with minimal employee contribution.
• Retirement Planning: A competitive 401(k) with employer match.
• Supportive & Mission-Driven Culture:
  Join a workplace centered around true collegiality, collaboration, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

The Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis leads enterprise planning, forecasting, management reporting, financial analysis, and finance business partnership. The VP converts financial and operational data into insight, creates common planning standards across Great Hearts, and leads the finance partners serving Home Office, Online, Arizona, and new regions.

• Lead the annual budget, multi-year plan, rolling forecast, scenario planning, and enterprise risk and opportunity processes.
• Develop common assumptions, calendars, templates, metrics, and review routines that support consistent and transparent planning across entities and departments.
• Produce consolidated management reporting, forecasts, variance analysis, executive commentary, board materials, and decision-support analyses.
• Drive robust cash flow forecasting and scenario planning to ensure optimal liquidity, mitigate financial risk, and support corporate capital allocation decisions.
• Lead and develop the senior finance team members across multiple business channels and geographic regions.
• Ensure finance partners provide responsive, high-quality support to regional and functional leaders while applying common enterprise standards.
• Create financial models for growth, new schools and regions, online programs, compensation, staffing, strategic initiatives, and changes in funding or enrollment.
• Partner with Accounting and Finance Systems to reconcile management reporting to the general ledger and improve data quality, reporting tools, and close-to-report processes.
• Partner with Shared Services to identify transaction trends, service issues, working-capital needs, and process improvements affecting forecasts and customers.
• Present financial results, risks, choices, and recommendations to the CFO, senior leadership, and boards as assigned.
• Perform additional duties and special projects as assigned.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Experience:
  
  At least 10 years of progressive finance experience, including leadership of budgeting, forecasting, modeling, management reporting, and finance business partnership in a complex organization.
• Special
  
  Skills:
  
  Expert financial modeling and advanced Excel skills; experience with enterprise planning and reporting tools strongly preferred.
• Ability to create structure around ambiguity and translate complex analysis into crisp recommendations.
• Demonstrated success leading through influence across multiple entities, regions, and executive stakeholders.
• Commi…