Top Finance Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manages financial services regulatory compliance across consumer lending products, including advisory support, complaint and issue management, licensing, regulatory exams, and regulatory change monitoring. Partners with business units to identify compliance risks, develop mitigation strategies, remediate issues, maintain licenses, prepare reports, and promote a strong compliance culture.

Leads a team of complex fraud investigators, providing coaching, performance management, and operational oversight. Handles escalated fraud investigations involving fraud rings and account manipulation, applies pattern analysis and policy interpretation, and partners with Legal and Compliance. Owns cross-functional projects to improve fraud operations, reduce customer friction, allocate resources, and enhance scalability using data-informed strategies and tools such as SQL.

Supports Avant’s Corrective Action Program by reviewing risk incidents, managing issues through closure, tracking remediation, documenting controls, identifying emerging enterprise risks, and reporting trends to leadership. The role partners cross-functionally on risk mitigation, change management, and risk culture initiatives. Responsibilities require data analysis, SQL querying, project management, risk management knowledge, strong collaboration, and advanced Microsoft Office skills.

Leads Avant’s internal audit and SOX function, advising the Board Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee on controls and risk. Builds the audit charter, methodology, risk assessment, audit plan, SOX compliance roadmap, and remediation governance from an early-stage program. Recruits staff, manages co-sourced partners, oversees testing and deficiency evaluation, and implements GRC, analytics, automated testing, and continuous monitoring capabilities. Partners with Finance, Technology, Legal, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk while maintaining audit independence.

Own complex operational accounting processes and month-end close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, SOX controls, audits, and process documentation. Investigate accounting issues, improve data quality, automate workflows, and implement controlled AI-enabled accounting processes. Partner cross-functionally on systems and transformation projects, review junior accountants’ work, and mentor staff. The role is based in a hybrid downtown Chicago office.