Top Finance Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Author and review realistic personal finance case studies for analytical modeling. Responsibilities include developing complex scenarios, validating financial accuracy and logical consistency, documenting reasoning, and identifying edge cases involving taxes, investments, retirement, budgeting, and debt management. The role is fully remote, asynchronous, and text-based, requiring strong financial expertise, clear writing, mathematical accuracy, and independent work.

Leads end-to-end credit analytics supporting strategy, pricing, policy, dealer oversight, collections, and executive decisions. Develops and validates production-ready models, code, reporting, and BI workflows using SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI. Establishes analytical standards, governance, documentation, and quality controls; monitors credit and dealer performance; translates findings into recommendations; and provides mentorship and analytical oversight to junior analysts.

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.

Own R&D budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, headcount planning, variance analysis, and executive reporting. Partner with technical, product, people, medical, and finance leaders to translate AI/API usage, infrastructure, vendors, lab operations, and personnel investments into accurate financial plans. Build scalable finance processes and planning systems, improve reporting and forecast accuracy, and apply AI to streamline finance workflows in a fast-moving environment.

Hands-on Finance Lead responsible for FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, treasury and cash management, monthly and board reporting, overseeing AP/AR and external accounting providers, maintaining controls and finance policies, supporting capital allocation and strategic projects, and acting as the primary finance partner to leadership in a lean, startup environment.

Lead accounting and reporting activities including evaluating new accounting standards, preparing journal entries and financial analyses, designing controls and mitigating risk, coordinating internal/external reporting and audits, and driving accounting projects like system implementations and process improvements.

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.

Lead GTM finance owning the end-to-end P&L for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Build first-principles financial models, drive unit economics and ARR forecasting, deliver exec/board reporting, partner on capacity/pricing, champion AI-enabled finance workflows, and hire and develop the GTM finance team as the company scales.

Prepare and review U.S. federal, state and international tax returns; handle indirect tax compliance; prepare U.S. GAAP income tax provisions and reconciliations; maintain tax documentation and calendars; support audits and tax authority responses; conduct tax research; monitor tax law updates; partner with finance teams and assist with process improvements and special projects.

Own R&D Finance reporting, forecasting, Anaplan modeling, SaaS margin analytics, Product P&Ls, close activities, software capitalization, cloud cost allocation, and audit support. Lead two Finance analysts and partner with R&D, Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, and Finance Systems. Modernize reporting through automation and responsible AI adoption.

Support daily finance operations including accounts payable, expense processing, reconciliations, corporate card monitoring, and month-end tasks. Maintain accurate records, prepare reports in Excel/Sheets, resolve stakeholder inquiries, and identify process improvements while working independently and meeting deadlines during Chicago (Central Time) business hours.

The Strategic Finance Advisor leads customer enablement, collaborates on product strategy, assists in developing financial models, and offers technical guidance on financial reporting.

Lead and manage client engagements delivering financial operating models, strategic analyses, and recommendations to C-suite. Oversee M&A and fundraising work, ensure project delivery, support business development and proposals, and mentor team members to maintain high standards.

Perform financial and operational analysis, build models and dashboards, translate data into strategic recommendations, support fundraising and M&A workstreams, prepare CEO/BOD-ready materials, execute unit economics, pricing, and ROI projects, and improve firm tools and client delivery.

Part-time fractional senior finance operator embedded with a consumer goods client. Own FP&A across three entities, build rolling forecasts, working capital and cash flow models, support financing and lender materials, advise on inventory and channel economics, and establish reporting cadence and financial processes to support rapid retail-driven expansion.

Create practical Excel templates, demo files, and use-case scenarios for accounting, FP&A, finance, operations, and marketing. Improve onboarding with clear demos, produce short guides and walkthroughs, and complete a sample Excel task and paid trial as part of the interview process.

Short-term, paid project to export and redact personal financial data from multiple apps/services across five mandatory categories, create two financial artifacts, follow detailed submission and quality-review processes, and resubmit if required.

Provide fractional CFO services to high-growth tech startups: build driver-based financial models, institutionalize month-end model updates, own budget vs. actuals reporting, align P&L with accounting, and deliver analyses for fundraising, M&A, pricing, unit economics, and cash management to support strategic decisions.

Lead FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; manage cash flow, ABL lender compliance, project-level profitability, and financial modeling. Advise executive team and private equity sponsor, build a high-performing finance team, and drive strategic planning, M&A modeling, and operational KPI analysis across a multi-site contract-based business.

The VP of Finance will build financial foundations, own FP&A, provide decision support, upgrade reporting, and develop the finance team.

Lead IPO readiness and investor relations efforts, drive long-range FP&A and strategic planning, support M&A (with emphasis on post-acquisition integration), build executive and Board-level analyses and presentations, partner cross-functionally to shape the companys investment story, and leverage AI tools to streamline finance workflows.