Chief Financial Officer

** POSITION:
** Chief Financial Officer
** DEPARTMENT:
** Finance
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* LOCATION:

** San Antonio or Dallas, TX
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* REPORTS TO:

** Great Hearts Texas Superintendent
** FLSA STATUS:
** Exempt, Full-time  
** Company

Description:

** Great Hearts Texas (GHTX) is a nonprofit network of public charter schools serving approximately 14,500 students across its schools and Texas Online, with approximately $170 million in annual revenue. Its classical preparatory K–12 curriculum is grounded in a character-centered liberal arts tradition and cultivates students’ hearts and minds through the pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. GHTX prepares students to become great-hearted and virtuous leaders capable of success in higher education, their professional lives, and their communities.

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* The Opportunity:

** Great Hearts Texas offers a finance leader the opportunity to make a visible, lasting contribution to a distinctive educational organization. Building on recent organizational growth, the next CFO will strengthen the team, modernize systems, and create a finance function that enables our schools and leadership to achieve our mission.  Working closely with the Superintendent and Board, the CFO will influence decisions about resources, facilities, and long-term financial sustainability.

For someone energized by building organizational capability and drawn to the classical educational mission, this role offers meaningful breadth of impact and the chance to see their work translate into stronger support for students and educators.  The CFO will partner closely with headmasters, earning trust, providing clear recommendations, and building shared accountability while respecting educators’ expertise and school-level leadership.  
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* The Role:

** The CFO is Great Hearts Texas’s senior finance leader, a member of the leadership team, and a strategic partner to the Superintendent and Board. Accountable for treasury, accounting, reporting, planning, controls, and financial compliance, the CFO leads through the finance team and external partners. The role requires technical depth to set standards, evaluate results, and intervene where needed while building team ownership.

** Core Leadership Responsibilities:*
* ** Build and lead the finance organization**:
Recruit, develop, and retain strong finance and accounting talent. Establish effective leadership, clear responsibilities and decision rights, measurable goals, and disciplined performance management. Build a cohesive team that streamlines processes and delivers responsive support to schools and leadership.  
** Lead accounting and financial operations**:
Provide executive oversight of accounting, monthly close, financial reporting, payroll, payments, and receivable collections through effective team leadership. Set expectations for accuracy, timeliness, service, and controls. Ensure accounting issues are resolved and the organization is audit-ready and financially compliant. Establish clear ownership and effective management so financial operations are delivered reliably without recurring CFO intervention.  
** Modernize financial systems and processes**:
Set and execute the vision for financial systems, integrations, and workflows. Evaluate the current platform and investment options, prioritize improvements, and lead implementation and staff adoption. Improve accuracy, efficiency, and access to information while maintaining continuity of essential financial operations.  
** Execute financial strategy and guide enterprise decisions**:
Own budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and the integrated long-term financial plan. Deliver against financial health targets and lead corrective action when needed. Partner with the Superintendent, headmasters, and Board on school…