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Senior Finance Manager

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Hybrid
Woodstock, IL, USA
110K-128K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Woodstock, IL, USA
110K-128K Annually
Senior level
Owns day-to-day finance operations, including billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, reconciliations, payroll administration, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and cash-flow tracking. The role provides leadership with accurate financial insights, maintains financial controls and documentation, supports acquisition integration, and ensures timely billing, collections, month-end close, and variance analysis. Success requires independent ownership of financial processes and strong attention to detail.
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Finance Manager

The Finance Manager owns the day-to-day execution of LeadingIT's financial processes and provides leadership with accurate, timely financial information. This role manages billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, reconciliations, reporting, forecasting, and financial tracking. The ideal Finance Manager is highly organized, accountable, detail-oriented, and comfortable identifying problems and following them through to resolution.

What this role will entail:

Financial Operations 

  • Manage day-to-day accounting and finance processes. 
  • Maintain accurate financial records. 
  • Monthly  financial close. 
  • Maintain financial documentation  

Accounts Receivable 

  • Monitor outstanding invoices and AR aging. 
  • Coordinate collections. 
  • Maintain LeadingIT's collections process. 
  • Resolve billing discrepancies. 
  • Escalate past-due accounts appropriately. 

Billing 

  • Coordinate recurring client billing. 
  • Confirm billing aligns with client agreements. 
  • Identify missed, incorrect, or inconsistent billing. 
  • Coordinate agreement changes with Operations and account management. 

Accounts Payable 

  • Manage incoming vendor invoices. 
  • Coordinate invoice approvals. 
  • Process payments. 
  • Maintain vendor records and payment documentation. 

Payroll & Employee Administration 

  • Coordinate employee reimbursements. 
  • Partner with HR on compensation, benefits, onboarding, and employee changes. 

Reporting & Forecasting 

  • Prepare monthly financial reporting for Leadership. 
  • Maintain financial Scorecard metrics. 
  • Assist with annual budgeting. 
  • Maintain short-term cash-flow forecasting. 
  • Track revenue, expenses, labor costs, and gross margin. 
  • Assist leadership in understanding variances. 

Acquisition Integration 

  • Assist with integrating acquired companies into LeadingIT financial systems. 
  • Reconcile acquired billing, agreements, expenses, and client balances. 
  • Maintain acquisition financial tracking. 

Key Measurables 

  • Accurate and timely client billing. 
  • AR aging within company targets. 
  • Monthly reconciliations completed by 5th of the month.  
  • Monthly financial reporting delivered on schedule. 
  • Billing errors and missed revenue minimized. 
  • Cash-flow forecast maintained. 
  • Financial procedures documented. 
  • Finance to-dos completed without repeated follow-up. 

What we need from you (system requirements):

  • Driven to succeed at work and in all of life, hard work required
  • ACCOUNTABLE to our clients as well as our company 
  • Keep a POSITIVE mindset with a solution focus. 
  • Desire for EXCELLENCE in what we do, all day every day. 
  • HUMBLY CONFIDENT you can make it happen, and if not, able to ask for help.  
  • 4+ years of finance/accounting experience. 
  • Experience with AP, AR, payroll, reconciliations, and financial reporting. 
  • Strong Excel skills. 
  • Experience with QuickBooks Online or similar accounting software. 
  • Strong attention to detail and follow-through. 
  • Ability to work independently and own financial processes. 
  • Professional-services, MSP, SaaS, or recurring-revenue experience preferred. 

What Success Looks Like 

Within the first year, LeadingIT has a predictable and disciplined financial operating rhythm. 

Leadership can confidently answer: 

  • Where are we financially today? 
  • Where will we be three, six, and twelve months from now? 
  • Are we making the margins we should be making? 
  • Are we staffed appropriately for our revenue? 
  • Which clients and services are profitable? 
  • Where is cash going? 
  • What financial risks are coming? 
  • What actions should we take? 

This seat owns making sure those answers are available, accurate, and actionable. 

More about us:

At LeadingIT, our people and our culture are at the heart of everything we do. We are a growing, security-focused MSP that runs on the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). This means clarity, accountability, and alignment are not buzzwords here. They are how we operate every single day. We want everyone on our team to live their EOS life, which means having the ability to do what you love, with people you love, while making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately, with time for other passions.

Our core values are not posters on the wall. They are who we are.

Accountable. Staying Positive. Chase Excellence. Driven. Humbly Confident.

If these values describe how you show up in your work and with your clients, you will fit right in here.

Our all-inclusive total compensation and benefits package for this role includes:

  • Salary for this role is $110,000-$128,000
  • Ascension plan if applicable
  • We provide 100% company paid health, dental, life, and vision benefits – value of $4,500 to $14,000/year
  • We match 5% of your contributions to Guideline 401k – value of 5% of salary.
  • Open Door PTO policy
  • Company provided gear (notebook + softphone) as well as company clothing.

Our hiring process:

  • Submit your application
  • If we like what we see, we will reach out to schedule a video interview

Additional Perks:

We’re building a company where success is shared. LeadingIT has committed to distributing $5 million in profit back to our team over the next 10 years—on top of fully paid benefits, unlimited PTO, and a people-first culture. We are building something that changes lives.

For a more in depth look at our jobs/benefits/hiring timeline check out www.goleadingit.com/careers

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