Top Finance Director Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Director will lead corporate recovery and restructuring, manage financial modeling, direct project teams, and drive business development efforts. Responsibilities include analyzing business plans, creating turnaround strategies, and mentoring team members.

Lead transaction tax engagements for private equity and corporate clients, performing tax due diligence, structuring, modeling, and tax research. Prepare C-suite reports, review purchase agreements and disclosure schedules, identify post-closing opportunities, and manage client and engagement team communications to deliver tax advisory services across the deal lifecycle.

Provide project-level financial analysis, forecasting, and executive reporting. Translate financial data into recommendations, support ad hoc modeling and strategic initiatives, and develop project finance best practices and dashboards.

Lead end-to-end billing, invoicing, collections, and NetSuite-based revenue operations for a large, complex SaaS and services business. Design quote-to-cash processes, improve automation and data quality, partner with Sales/RevOps/Engineering, manage reporting (ARR/MRR/deferred revenue), and drive collections, tax compliance, and operational scalability.

Lead FP&A: drive annual budget and monthly forecasts, oversee a team of two, support due diligence and acquisitions, standardize financial processes, prepare board and executive reporting, maintain controls and financial documentation, and build scalable financial infrastructure.

Lead finance transformation strategy and roadmap, oversee systems analysts and configuration of Yardi and BlackLine, drive transformation initiatives, manage change and KPIs, and ensure efficient monthly close processes while building a high-performing team.

The Finance Director will lead the finance team, overseeing financial planning, analysis, and management practices to support the company's growth and performance optimization.

Lead financial strategy and operations to support scaling and profitable growth. Build analytical capabilities and KPI reporting, oversee investor reporting, and support executive-level planning, forecasting, and modeling. Drive business-case analyses to inform product, pricing, operational, and acquisition decisions while partnering closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams.

Lead full finance function: deliver monthly audit-ready financials, maintain weekly 12-month cash forecast, own budgeting/forecasting, implement automated systems, create SOPs, produce dashboards, partner with leadership to improve profitability and scale finance systems.

Oversee accounting operations while leading finance transformation in a SaaS environment, focusing on digital automation and scalable workflows.

Lead GTM finance owning the end-to-end P&L for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Build first-principles financial models, drive unit economics and ARR forecasting, deliver exec/board reporting, partner on capacity/pricing, champion AI-enabled finance workflows, and hire and develop the GTM finance team as the company scales.

Lead FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; manage cash flow, ABL lender compliance, project-level profitability, and financial modeling. Advise executive team and private equity sponsor, build a high-performing finance team, and drive strategic planning, M&A modeling, and operational KPI analysis across a multi-site contract-based business.

Serve as the first GTM finance business partner, building forecasting, KPIs (CAC, LTV, payback), pricing and P&L models, headcount and commission modeling, monthly and annual planning, and systems/tooling to support Sales and Marketing decision-making and ROI-driven growth.

Lead IPO readiness and investor relations efforts, drive long-range FP&A and strategic planning, support M&A (with emphasis on post-acquisition integration), build executive and Board-level analyses and presentations, partner cross-functionally to shape the companys investment story, and leverage AI tools to streamline finance workflows.

Lead operations finance for the PES segment as a strategic business partner to operations leadership. Build standardized, automated finance processes, drive costing, intercompany pricing, budgeting, forecasting, KPI reporting, and value realization. Ensure SOX/US GAAP compliance, conduct control audits, quantify operational risks, and support global consistency across plants. Coach finance talent, champion LEAN and AI-enabled productivity, and evaluate major decisions like footprint, make-versus-buy, and sourcing. Role requires frequent regional travel and bilingual (English/Spanish) collaboration.

Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools: build budgets and multi-year forecasts, advise school leaders and boards on strategic financial decisions, analyze and model financial issues, provide client-facing guidance, mentor finance specialists/analysts, lead audits, and contribute to internal finance product development and best practices.

Lead CMAA's finance and accounting operations, including budgeting, forecasts, audits, cash flow, A/R and A/P, grant accounting, supervising a finance team, and advising executive leadership and the board on financial strategy and compliance.