Top Finance Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manages the full lifecycle of global bank accounts, including openings, maintenance, and closures. Administers user access provisioning and de-provisioning for banking platforms, performs KYC reviews, gathers compliance documentation, and maintains audit trails. Partners with Compliance, Legal, and Finance to meet regulatory and internal policy requirements. Supports process documentation and workflow improvements for Treasury Operations.

Investigate potential market and trade practice violations, analyze surveillance alerts, escalate higher-risk matters, and prepare investigative reports, memoranda, and presentations. The role applies CFTC regulations and exchange rules to derivatives trading scenarios, manages concurrent investigations and deadlines, identifies market-risk trends, and recommends surveillance process improvements. It also supports regulatory reporting and communications with Coinbase Derivatives leadership, the board, and oversight committees while using generative AI responsibly under human oversight.

Lead Finance support for product launches by coordinating across accounting, tax, treasury, risk, and operations. Oversee launch reviews, perform accounting treatment assessments, design and implement controls, produce audit-ready documentation and executive reporting, and partner with Finance Engineering to automate reporting and processes. Serve as trusted advisor to business partners and manage cross-functional workstreams to ensure compliance and operational readiness.

Manage end-to-end month-end and quarter-end close across global entities, oversee intercompany billing, settlements, transfer pricing execution, FX analysis and eliminations. Partner with Tax, Treasury, Legal, and Finance Data to operationalize entity launches and intercompany agreements. Design and document SOX controls, lead GL projects (M&A integrations, new entity setups, ERP/NetSuite enhancements), and mentor direct reports to drive operational excellence and scalability.

Owns FP&A for Coinbase Platform leadership, including annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, monthly planning, month-end variance analysis, financial modeling, and business reviews. Partners with senior stakeholders to guide OpEx planning, resource allocation, investment decisions, and risk assessment. Uses SQL, planning systems, visualization tools, and generative AI to analyze financial and operational data and improve decision-making.

Perform end-to-end financial crime compliance audits: scope, testing, workpapers, reporting, and remediation validation. Partner with Compliance, Engineering, and Legal to identify control gaps, assess risk, recommend remediations, and verify closure. Use data analysis (SQL preferred) and maintain AML/sanctions regulatory knowledge. Manage multiple remote audit workstreams and stakeholder communication, applying responsible generative AI oversight where appropriate.

Own diligence and underwriting for institutional counterparties, recommend internal credit ratings and risk-based limits, monitor portfolio exposures, analyze asset volatility/liquidity for limit-setting, negotiate industry documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex client or product issues.

Lead financial due diligence and end-to-end purchase accounting for acquisitions, drive accounting treatment for investments and consolidations, draft technical memos and SEC disclosures, ensure SOX controls, and partner cross-functionally on new products, complex transactions, and post-close integration.

Own exception management and operational readiness for listed derivatives and crypto products. Lead UAT, playbooks, cutovers, monitoring, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and automation while partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Accounting.

Lead enterprise-wide compliance and financial-crime risk assessments, evaluate controls and residual risk, produce executive reports, partner with MLROs/CCOs globally, drive transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring coverage, update geographic risk ratings, develop threat assessment frameworks, and pioneer AI-powered automation while maintaining human oversight.