Senior Director, Finance - Go-To-Market and Operations

Summary

Join Great Minds as a Senior Director of Finance, leading the financial planning for Go-to-Market functions and Operations. This role demands strategic and tactical financial planning, risk management, financial reporting, and variance analysis. You will connect sales forecasts with operational supply planning, leveraging data and analytics for market yield and cost management. Develop and execute short-term and long-term financial plans, providing strategic financial advice to executive leadership. Evaluate the Go-to-Market elements of proposed capital projects and monitor project costs and outcomes. Identify and mitigate financial risks associated with Go-to-Market activities. Prepare reports on financial performance, including revenue, cost variances, and marketing metrics. This is a full-time, remote position.

Requirements

• Exceptional ability to lead direct reports and indirect contributors to initiatives
• Superior collaboration, analytical, and strategic commercial talents
• Compelling communication skills both written and verbal
• Flexibility, curiosity, humility, insatiable desire to add value and solve problems
• Public Accounting experience
• 10+ years in financial planning and analysis roles with 5+ years in a leadership leading high performing teams strategically aligned with core business objectives
• Revenue Operations Experience
• Educational Publishing Finance Experience
• Accounting or Finance degree; Master’s preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute near-term and long-range financial plans, including scenario analysis
• Working with the GTM leaders and the VP of Finance, develop and implement long-term GTM financial models based on KPIs and aligned with the company's overall financial strategy and goals
• Provide strategic financial advice and support to executive leadership on various initiatives
• Contribute to and evaluate the GTM elements of proforma projections of proposed capital projects to ensure reasonable expectations and sufficient funding to support outcomes
• Working with functional counterparts, put in place mechanisms to estimate, measure and report on costs and outcomes of GTM projects
• Identify and mitigate financial risks associated with GTM activities and forecasts
• Prepare reports on the financial performance of supported GTM and Operations teams, including revenue and price yield, cost variances, and marketing project performance metrics

Benefits

• The expected base salary range for this position is $182,000-$207,000, 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
• Remote