Top Senior Finance Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads financial evaluation and governance for innovation projects, including business cases, project P&Ls, DCF and investment modeling, pipeline reporting, funding decisions, and post-launch performance analysis. Partners with R&D, engineering, marketing, commercial, and supply chain teams to optimize margins, assess risks, guide investment choices, establish financial standards, and build finance capabilities across the organization.

Leads global digital finance for M&M’S across 14 countries and four channels. Partners with digital and finance leaders on strategy, value creation, margin expansion, investment optimization, forecasting, resource allocation, predictive analysis, and compliance. Develops actionable insights from advanced analytics, supports executive decision-making, leads strategic projects, and manages finance talent and capabilities.

Direct the Strategic Finance team and own Jasper’s FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and scenario planning. Partner with GTM, EPD, and Talent Acquisition on financial planning, headcount approvals, and operating efficiency. Prepare executive and board-level reporting, translate complex financial data into actionable recommendations, and help leadership make informed investment and scaling decisions.

Leads finance and accounting advisory engagements, including FP&A, forecasting, budgeting, pro forma analysis, US GAAP and SEC reporting, accounting policy implementation, close-process improvement, audit preparation, purchase accounting, and transaction-related accounting. Manages client projects, coordinates with stakeholders, and mentors staff. Requires at least seven years of public accounting and operational accounting experience, strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, and comprehensive US GAAP knowledge. CPA certification is preferred.

Reviews commercial lease transactions for sales and property tax compliance, researches multi-jurisdictional tax regulations, supports audits, refunds, disputes, reconciliations, journal entries, and amended returns. Manages property tax vendors, coordinates with Corporate Tax and Finance teams, improves reporting and data accuracy, and provides tax guidance and customer support to leasing staff and customers.

The Director of Strategic Finance leads financial modeling, scenario and sensitivity analysis, business case evaluation, pricing and margin analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning. The role analyzes league and team expenses, identifies inefficiencies and savings opportunities, improves reporting processes, and presents financial insights to executives and business leaders. It requires strong FP&A expertise, advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, dashboard experience, and the ability to translate operational metrics into financial outcomes.

Lead the finance function for an enterprise B2B software company, overseeing FP&A, accounting, cash, forecasting, investor and board reporting, pricing economics, revenue recognition, audit readiness, treasury, and finance systems. Advise the CEO and executive team on strategy, capital planning, investment decisions, and growth. Build a scalable finance team and processes while managing SaaS metrics, hybrid subscription and usage-based revenue, internal controls, tax compliance, billing, collections, and working capital.

Design realistic, multi-step finance and accounting benchmark tasks based on FP&A, financial reporting, audit, and reconciliation workflows. Create supporting spreadsheets and financial documents, define objective grading criteria, evaluate task ambiguity, and deliver approved tasks on schedule. The role requires strong judgment, Excel proficiency, cross-document analysis, structured review experience, and at least five years of hands-on finance or accounting experience.

The Finance Manager will lead FP&A activities, including forecasting, business planning, month-end close support, KPI reporting, financial modeling, and scenario analysis. The role partners with executive and departmental leadership to guide pricing, product launches, marketing efficiency, resource allocation, and fiber deployment strategies. Responsibilities also include improving processes, presenting financial insights, and potentially coaching junior financial analysts.

Leads finance operations, back-office accounting processes, month-end close, billing, receivables, project accounting, revenue recognition, controls, reporting, and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP enhancements. Oversees system configuration, integrations, testing, process improvement, M&A finance workstreams, and cross-functional issue resolution. Manages and develops the Finance Operations team while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Sales Operations, Technology, clients, and external providers.

Leads Finance Analytics, owning forecasting methodology, annual and long-range planning, financial modeling, performance management, unit economics, strategic decision support, and capital allocation analysis. Partners with executives and cross-functional teams on resource planning, pricing, investments, and business performance. Manages and mentors analysts while advancing AI-enabled finance processes and analytical standards.

Own the monthly close, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, financial statements, and balance sheet schedules. Support billing accuracy, collections coordination, commission accruals, and revenue reconciliations across systems. Improve accounting processes, document recurring work, identify risks, and provide leadership with clear, reliable monthly financial reporting.

Lead treasury, token, and capital strategy across fiat, stablecoins, and $VANA. Manage liquidity and market maker relationships, design hedging and yield programs, oversee accounting, compliance, audits, and financial reporting. Advise on tokenomics, build financial models and scenario analyses, support fundraising, and negotiate liquidity and investment deals to preserve runway and advance network stability.

Manage a commercial equipment finance loan portfolio through financial analysis, underwriting, covenant and collateral evaluation, risk rating, monitoring, renewals, and modifications. Partner with relationship managers and credit risk teams, prepare credit recommendations and performance reports, ensure policy and regulatory compliance, and identify emerging risks. The role also supports client meetings, mentors junior employees, and contributes to data governance and accurate portfolio records.

Own operations and governance for enterprise planning platforms (budgeting, forecasting, workforce and compensation planning). Lead requirements gathering, solution design, enhancements, integrations, testing, deployments, production support, and user adoption. Partner with Finance, People & Culture, Technology, and vendors to drive platform roadmap, controls, documentation, and training to improve planning, reporting, and process efficiency.

Lead financial strategy, forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, payer contracting analysis, and business planning for a growing virtual physical therapy company. Evaluate healthcare unit economics, reimbursement, risk arrangements, and MSO/PC financial structures. Establish KPIs and reporting, support cash and scenario planning, improve finance operations, and advise the CEO and executive team. This is a remote, part-time fractional leadership role requiring healthcare finance and payer-provider expertise.

Leads financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, business case development, financial reporting, ROIC analysis, and strategic financial modeling. Oversees mid-month forecasting, long-range planning, Strata administration, data security, integrations, and financial reporting tools. Provides technical review, guides coworkers, coordinates projects, supports technology request analysis, and collaborates with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Supports global financial management for the RAPID initiative by reviewing transactions, maintaining accounting data, analyzing accounts, preparing reports and reconciliations, monitoring compliance, managing advances and receivables, supporting treasury activities, and strengthening subrecipient financial capacity. The role ensures adherence to CRS policies, GAAP, donor regulations, and local legal requirements across multiple countries.

Partners with Sales, Ecosystem, and Revenue Operations to develop financial forecasts, models, recurring reports, variance analyses, and actionable recommendations. The role supports investment decisions, target attainment, efficient growth, and day-to-day business planning while using AI-powered workflows to improve financial analysis and reporting.

Leads FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and shared-cost allocation across corporate functions. Partners with senior executives, improves financial processes, builds scalable models and automation, and develops a team of two finance professionals. The role manages over $200 million in expense budgets and allocates more than $160 million in shared services costs across game teams while driving financial transparency and strategic decision-making.

Own budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, financial reporting, project costing, and margin analysis. Lead finance transformation by consolidating systems, designing controls and procedures, and building scalable reporting frameworks. Manage financial relationships for assigned clients, support project engagements, and partner with operations and senior leadership on business decisions and growth initiatives.

Lead finance operations improvements across procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report. Drive GenAI and digital finance transformation, optimize close/consolidation, enhance forecasting, reporting, and data analysis. Manage complex finance issues, ensure compliance and quality, build client relationships, and mentor junior staff.

Lead design and implement finance transformation solutions using OneStream; analyze complex issues, mentor junior staff, build client relationships, configure models/workflows, and support budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.

Own the company-wide budget, forecasts, board financials, operating model, and financial reporting. Lead OKR and business review cadences, define company metrics, perform hands-on analysis, and manage acquisition, capital allocation, pricing, and regulated-entity capital planning. Partner with senior leaders on strategy, sales capacity, organization design, and cross-functional programs while leading the FinOps, RevOps, and Finance Systems manager.

Leads Thunderbird’s finance function, overseeing accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, reporting, revenue recognition, controls, budgeting, forecasting, and finance operations. Manages the finance team, strengthens systems and workflows, supports international and partner-led commercial arrangements, and advises organizational leaders on financial risks, tradeoffs, and decisions. The role is fully remote and requires substantial North American working-hour overlap, with periodic domestic or international travel.