Top Business Finance Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead strategic initiatives and project workstreams for business leaders supporting technology startups and healthcare companies. Deliver executive presentations, dashboards, wireframes, trend analyses, and financial and non-financial performance insights. Coordinate team activities, communicate with stakeholders, improve business processes, and identify platform risks and mitigating controls. The role requires strong analytical, organizational, communication, presentation, and data visualization skills.

Leads finance and business management initiatives for the Global Corporate Banking Healthcare team. Responsibilities include implementing strategy and platforms, optimizing fees, costs, RWA and capital utilization, analyzing financial performance, mitigating business risks, improving workflows, coordinating technology and infrastructure projects, managing external providers, and communicating complex topics to senior stakeholders.

Partner with business and finance leaders to drive product investment cases, KPI definition, portfolio and throughput analyses, and data-driven reporting. Build management reporting and executive presentations, structure complex problems into simple frameworks, and collaborate across Product, Operations, Business Management and Data & Analytics to enable strategic decision-making and optimization.

Lead financial and business management for Servicing teams: prepare executive presentations, design monthly/quarterly reporting, analyze large datasets, build forecasting and capacity models, manage activity-based costing allocations, and partner with senior stakeholders to inform strategy and drive execution.

Supports capital allocation frameworks, regulatory capital analysis, forecasting, budgeting, performance reporting, and return-on-capital reviews for Commercial and Investment Banking. Partners with Finance, Risk, Technology, and business stakeholders to improve tools, controls, automation, and decision-making. Monitors regulatory developments, evaluates impacts and mitigation strategies, prepares executive and investor reporting, and provides financial insights on capital-consuming activities and business performance.

Partners with commercial and executive leaders on financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, KPI tracking, pricing, deal reviews, investment cases, and strategic decision-making. Manages P&Ls, forecasts, and headcount plans while improving reporting and finance processes. Uses advanced Excel, SQL, financial modeling, and performance frameworks to identify trends, risks, and growth opportunities across Commercial, Operations, and Product teams.

Leads finance partnership for a business unit, advising senior leadership on strategy, growth, performance, and financial decisions. Oversees annual planning, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling, scenario analysis, business cases, and KPI management. Partners cross-functionally to identify risks, improve profitability, and support investments. The role also manages finance team members, drives process improvements, and communicates financial insights to executives.

Leads financial performance, reporting, planning, controls, cost accounting, capital analysis, and operational finance for the U.S. Fresh Foods Division. Partners with executive and plant leadership to improve profitability, manufacturing performance, working capital, and cash flow. Oversees forecasting, budgeting, audits, SOX compliance, financial reporting, standard costing, inventory valuation, and capital investments while developing the finance organization and driving continuous improvement.

Serve as a trusted finance business partner to senior leaders, driving forecasting, budgeting, scenario analysis, pricing and deal support, P&L and margin analysis, management reporting, and financial controls. Mentor junior staff, support month/quarter/year close activities, partner cross-functionally on procurement and investments, and continuously improve finance tools and processes to influence commercial decisions and ensure financial hygiene.

9-week summer internship within Global Finance & Business Management supporting business management, control, financial analysis or project management teams. Perform financial analysis, reporting, controls, data-driven insights, and support cross-firm projects while receiving training and mentorship. Internship may convert to a two-year full-time rotational analyst role.

Leads finance support for cost-of-revenue functions, including manufacturing, cost accounting, clinical operations, quality, regulatory, and sales and operations planning. Owns budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, gross-margin performance, cost controls, inventory accounting, integrations, and executive decision support. Builds scalable finance capabilities, improves processes and analytics, develops high-performing teams, and partners with operations and executive leadership on productivity, risk, and strategic growth.

Serves as a strategic finance advisor, owning P&L analysis, financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, variance reporting, and performance management. Partners with business leaders on pricing, deal structuring, cost optimization, headcount planning, M&A support, and strategic initiatives. Prepares executive and board-ready reporting, maintains financial controls and data integrity, and improves analytical processes using financial platforms and AI tools.

Supports FP&A and enterprise analytics by developing scalable Power BI reporting, financial models, dashboards, and automated processes. Analyzes financial and operational datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities; improves forecasting, budgeting, and recurring reporting workflows using Excel, Python, SQL, Power Automate, and Microsoft platforms. Collaborates with finance, data engineering, IT, and business stakeholders, trains users, maintains governance standards, and contributes to the Pigment planning platform. Evaluates AI-enabled tools to improve reporting efficiency, data quality, and decision-making.

Review and assess finance, accounting, and business operations documents, providing structured feedback on quality, accuracy, and relevance. The role requires strong analytical, written communication, document review, and attention-to-detail skills. It is a fully remote independent contractor position with flexible scheduling, weekly payments, and eligibility limited to applicants in the United States, Europe, the UK, or Canada.

Own financial performance for a portfolio of clinics: forecasting, monthly reporting, variance analysis, owner payments, gross margin and COGS optimization. Partner with practice owners and success managers to drive actionable improvement plans, build AI-powered automations and finance tooling in GitHub, and translate analysis into realized P&L outcomes.

Serve as senior business analyst for Finance and ERP initiatives: gather and document requirements, define reporting, map as-is/to-be processes, support SDLC delivery, run small projects, act as SME across finance, supply chain and distribution functions, and use ITIL practices to manage incidents and improvements.

The Business Engagement Lead - Finance Operations ensures alignment between Finance and Technology, overseeing business requirements, product roadmaps, and stakeholder engagement while monitoring outcomes and driving technology investments to match business goals.

Oversee financial operations across multiple properties, manage budgets, audits, and compliance, and enhance financial acumen among teams.

Lead full finance function: deliver timely, audit-ready monthly financials; maintain weekly 12-month cash forecast; own budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling; implement automation and systems (ERP, reporting); document SOPs; drive profitability and EBITDA improvements; partner cross-functionally on inventory, cash, and product planning.