Top Senior Finance Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Performs monthly actual, forecast, and budget analysis for enterprise data and analytics initiatives. Tracks financial metrics, supports strategic planning, provides business analysis and decision support to senior managers, improves financial processes, and collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, vendors, and sourcing teams.

Serve as FP&A partner to Consumer leadership owning forecasting, budgeting, and driver-based financial models. Deliver monthly variance analysis, partner with Accounting, and translate financial insights into resource-allocation recommendations. Lead business-review presentations and conduct deep-dive analyses to find efficiency opportunities across Consumer operational spend.

Provide CFO-level FP&A partnership to multiple C-level leaders across People, Legal, Compliance, Policy, and Finance. Lead a team to build financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases that guide company-wide resource allocation and investments. Drive reporting, variance analysis, process improvements, and the vision for finance partnering, aligning budgets, forecasts, and headcount planning with executive priorities.

Serves as a senior functional subject matter expert for Workday Financials, designing and configuring finance processes, business rules, reports, security, and integrations. Leads requirements gathering, enhancements, release management, testing, UAT, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, documentation, and audit readiness. Partners with Accounting, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Grants, IT, and other stakeholders to optimize financial workflows, controls, reporting, and system operations across multiple finance platforms.

Leads Cengage’s royalty payments and product finance operations, including royalty models, contributor payments, product data, system ownership, reporting, audit support, and risk control. The role manages a team, develops scalable processes, oversees data setup across finance systems, drives complex improvement initiatives, resolves contributor issues, and presents analyses and recommendations to executive leaders.

Serve as the finance partner to Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leadership. Own GTM planning, forecasting, capacity and ARR modeling, commissions analysis, variance reporting, SaaS metrics, unit economics, ROI modeling, and financial process automation. Translate complex analyses into executive recommendations, improve planning systems, and support compensation plan design and GTM investment decisions.

Own the company’s finance function, including financial reporting, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, forecasting, profitability improvement, financial modeling, process documentation, automation, dashboards, and systems evaluation. Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams on growth, inventory planning, and executive decision-making while building scalable finance operations for continued expansion.

The Assistant Vice President, Commercial Surety will support underwriting and marketing strategy, manage regional production targets, and develop distribution partner relationships while mentoring junior team members.

Leads strategic finance for a portfolio of programs, managing budgeting, quarterly forecasting, variance reviews, expense projections, financial models, ROI and cost analyses, and executive reporting. Partners with program leaders and cross-functional teams to identify risks, opportunities, and resource needs. Translates complex financial analysis into actionable recommendations and serves as the finance expert for assigned programs.

Evaluate and review finance workflows and task designs for realism and accuracy in real assets, project finance, infrastructure, energy, mining, and natural resources. Identify missing assumptions, ambiguous instructions, impractical constraints, and edge cases. Provide concise, structured written feedback and recommendations, collaborate with other experts, and participate in synchronous review sessions as needed.

Review and evaluate quantitative finance tasks for technical accuracy and real-world realism. Identify missing assumptions, unrealistic constraints, edge cases, and data or backtesting issues. Provide concise, structured written feedback and actionable recommendations. Collaborate with other experts to calibrate evaluations and maintain consistent quality standards throughout a high-engagement, remote contractor sprint.

Review, create, and evaluate professional operational finance deliverables (P&L reconciliations, month-end close, AP/P2P, three-statement models, pro forma analysis, covenant and partnership accounting). Analyze complex documents, assess AI-generated financial work for technical accuracy and completeness, and produce executive-ready summaries with assumptions, variances, impacts, and recommendations.

Evaluate finance workflows and tasks for realism, technical accuracy, and practical applicability in trading, derivatives, and crypto markets. Identify ambiguous assumptions, unrealistic constraints, missing edge cases, and provide concise, actionable feedback. Collaborate with domain experts to maintain consistency and ensure high-quality assessments throughout a fast-paced, remote sprint engagement.

Serve as a strategic commercial finance partner across cash-pay and insurance-covered businesses. Own driver-based forecasting, financial modeling, performance analysis, business cases, KPI reporting, and executive communications. Analyze payer dynamics, reimbursement, revenue cycle, unit economics, marketing ROI, and customer cohorts to inform senior leadership and drive strategic decisions. Collaborate with Revenue Cycle, Analytics, Operations, Accounting, and FP&A on scalable models and processes.

Assess finance tasks and workflows for professional realism, clarity, and completeness. Identify missing assumptions, ambiguities, edge cases, and impractical constraints. Validate workflow logic, evaluate whether tasks measure professional finance capabilities, and provide concise, structured written feedback and improvement recommendations while collaborating with other finance experts during a high-engagement remote sprint.

Lead finance transformation projects, advising CFOs on operational improvements, managing client relationships, and mentoring team members.

The Finance Transformation Manager leads finance projects, improves finance processes, enables technology, and supports change for clients' financial transformations.

Manage and expand existing equipment finance relationships in the construction vertical across a multi-state territory. Originate new financing opportunities, assess borrower credit and collateral, provide industry intelligence, support senior management with sales training, and ensure adherence to risk, regulatory, and internal control standards.

Lead strategic financial analysis and the integrated 3-statement Long Range Plan. Build investor-grade models, valuations, and cash/liquidity forecasts. Support fundraising and M&A diligence, benchmark competitors, and partner with leadership and FP&A to align short- and long-term financial planning.

Own budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; prepare monthly/quarterly/annual financial reports and variance analyses; manage cash flow forecasting and month/year-end close with external accountants; build financial models, KPIs, dashboards, and business cases; support audits, tax filings, fundraising, board reporting, and automation of reporting processes.

Serve as outsourced accountant and financial advisor for a portfolio of schools. Manage full-cycle accounting (AP, payroll, grants), close books, prepare monthly financial statements, support annual audits and 990 preparation, liaise with authorizers/SEAs, analyze and model financial issues, and provide high-quality client service while supporting internal team growth.

Lead the finance function at Hadley Designs by building scalable systems, managing cash flow, and driving profitability to support growth.

The Head of Finance will manage financial operations, ensure compliance, support strategic finance, and partner with the CEO on financial planning and board reporting.

Lead AI-enabled financial planning and strategic analysis, build data-backed business cases, refine unit economics, deliver executive-level insights, integrate ML into FP&A, and track KPIs to drive profitability and strategic decisions.

The Sales Finance Manager will oversee financial strategy, planning, budgeting, and performance tracking, collaborating with department leaders and managing a finance team.