Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, financial reporting schedules, statutory statements, regulatory filings, audits, and SOX controls. Analyze accounts and variances, maintain accounting records and documentation, prepare reports, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Use analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve accounting processes, reporting, and controls.

Develop and maintain structured finance cash flow models for new-issue, amendment, and surveillance transactions using Intex Dealmaker and Python. Interpret legal documents, model complex waterfall mechanics, reconcile outputs, and communicate analytical findings. Contribute to Python platform development, workflow automation, testing, documentation, version control, database integration, and AI initiatives. Mentor junior colleagues and help lead scalable analytical solutions across global structured finance teams.

Lead the enterprise leadership and organizational development strategy at Morningstar. Design experiential leadership programs for leaders at all career stages, advise senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, facilitate leadership team sessions, and connect development initiatives with succession, mobility, culture, engagement, and workforce priorities. Use talent data and program metrics to measure impact while managing complex initiatives, stakeholders, vendors, and global participant experiences.

Manage and grow a portfolio of Mid-Market advisor, asset management, and institutional clients. Serve as primary contact, drive retention and expansion, own full sales cycle, deliver revenue and retention targets, conduct client meetings and demos, partner with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and forecasting.

Senior individual-contributor technical recruiter owning hiring outcomes for engineering, AI/ML, data science, and product across North America. Run complex searches, mentor recruiters, design evidence-based selection and AI-assisted recruiting workflows, provide market intelligence to stakeholders, manage pipeline health, and contribute to playbooks and process improvements.

Manage Morningstar's tax accounting and compliance: lead quarterly/annual tax provisions (10-Q/10-K), ASC 740 uncertain tax positions, US tax filings, audits, SOX tax controls, tax planning, M&A support, process automation, and supervise junior staff.

Lead end-to-end digital design across web platforms, design systems, and data visualizations. Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering; apply AI-enabled workflows to accelerate design; present and defend solutions; mentor peers; incorporate brand standards and accessibility; and deliver user-centered B2B experiences.

Conduct equity research on approximately 20 technology and SaaS companies, including valuation and discounted cash flow modeling. Analyze industry data, competitive dynamics, and publicly available information to develop investment insights and fair-value estimates. Publish research reports for sophisticated clients, build industry relationships, contribute investment ideas, and collaborate on financial models and written research. The role requires independent judgment, strong communication, advanced Excel skills, and a long-term fundamental investing perspective.

Build and operate production AI applications and shared platform capabilities using AWS Bedrock and Python. Develop AI agents, MCP servers, APIs, and distributed services; integrate AI into existing workflows; evaluate retrieval, tool-use, and orchestration approaches; and improve reliability, security, observability, and maintainability. Partner with technical and business stakeholders to identify opportunities, guide technical decisions, support delivery planning, and mentor less experienced engineers.

Build and launch benchmark, thematic, factor, strategic beta, and multi-asset indexes from concept through market launch. Conduct quantitative research, data analysis, signal testing, back-testing, portfolio construction, risk modeling, and statistical testing. Use Python and AI tools to automate workflows and accelerate methodology development. Create prototypes, dashboards, research materials, methodology documents, and client-facing narratives while partnering with research, product, technology, operations, and commercial teams.