Top Finance Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads the architecture, development, integration, deployment, and operation of enterprise financial systems supporting Accounting and Finance. Defines ERP and EPM roadmaps, builds scalable financial data integrations, establishes engineering and control standards, and manages monitoring, reliability, releases, and production support. Partners with senior stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, Product, and Engineering while developing a high-performing team and ensuring system security, auditability, data quality, and regulatory compliance.

Evaluate, structure, and price consumer asset-backed transactions; develop capital structuring, pricing, and quantitative loan-performance models; and provide funding strategy insights. Partner with Capital Markets, Treasury, Merchant Pricing, Credit, Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams to support funding, product, and business decisions. The role also involves collaborating with accountants, rating agencies, and internal and external partners.

Lead and build the Bank FP&A function during formation: manage forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, capital stress testing, performance reporting, strategic decision support, and partner with cross-functional teams and Bank CFO to drive financial planning and capital strategy.

Lead independent validation and ongoing monitoring of complex financial and analytics models, including ALM, loss forecasting, loan transition, corporate finance, and engagement models. Identify weaknesses, communicate findings, guide remediation, and strengthen model governance. Collaborate with Finance, Quantitative Research, Growth Analytics, Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Accounting, and Compliance to maintain Affirm’s model risk framework and address audit, regulatory, and examiner requests.

Lead and build the Affirm Bank accounting function during bank formation. Oversee GL operations, regulatory and monthly financial reporting, audit coordination, process automation, cash management, and financial analysis. Manage and recruit the accounting team and partner cross-functionally to integrate bank accounting into Affirm's systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Support design, implementation, and operation of Affirm Bank's BSA/AML and compliance technology. Build and test transaction-monitoring rules, case-management workflows, dashboards, and controls; analyze alerts and control performance; maintain documentation; coordinate across Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and vendors to ensure audit-ready, scalable compliance systems.