Top Finance Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Leads budgeting, forecasting, expense management, variance analysis, financial reporting, and sophisticated modeling. Partners with business teams and senior leadership, including the CFO, to improve financial performance and support strategic planning. The role also drives finance process improvements, AI integration, data integrity, and operational efficiency across corporate finance activities.

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.

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.

Contribute financial expertise to train and evaluate AI language models: design finance tasks, produce reference solutions, evaluate AI outputs with rubrics, collaborate with SMEs, and identify knowledge gaps to improve AI reasoning in finance. Independent contractor role requiring at least 10 hours/week.

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.

Galaxy Ventures connects top talent with portfolio companies in the crypto sector, offering a talent network for finance and legal professionals.

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.

The Finance Analyst will maintain financial models, prepare forecasts, analyze variances, and support leadership in decision-making and financial visibility.

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.

Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools: build budgets and multi-year forecasts, advise school leaders and boards on strategic financial decisions, analyze and model financial issues, provide client-facing guidance, mentor finance specialists/analysts, lead audits, and contribute to internal finance product development and best practices.

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

Support strategic financial planning through building and maintaining financial models, preparing reports and presentations, partnering with cross-functional teams, handling custom pricing requests and negotiations, analyzing pricing and market trends, and contributing to special projects to support company 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.