Top Finance Jobs in Madison, WI

Guide growth strategy through financial analysis of complex deals, pricing, contract economics, and strategic forecasting. Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Operations to evaluate trade-offs, translate financial data into actionable insights, and support executive decision-making. This individual contributor role requires navigating ambiguity and balancing short-term efficiency with long-term business impact in a fast-growing healthcare company.

Leads finance for the R&D organization, including planning, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling, P&L analysis, headcount planning, and cost of goods sold management. Partners with engineering, product, platform, and corporate FP&A teams to guide resource allocation and strategic decisions. Presents financial insights to senior leadership, improves financial processes, mentors a senior analyst, and identifies AI-driven automation opportunities.

Owns the finance function for Nirvana Insurance Services, including FP&A, accounting close, ASC 606 revenue recognition, premium trust funding, reinsurance economics, agency agreements, audits, and board reporting. Serves as the financial partner to business-unit leaders, builds shared financial processes and reporting, oversees Accounting and FP&A teams, and hires and leads a small finance team.

Supports payroll administration, accounts payable, benefits coordination, invoice processing, employee reimbursements, payment controls, and finance-related data integrity. Collaborates with third-party accountants and operations leadership, responds to payroll and benefits inquiries, maintains accurate employee and financial records, and assists with organizational projects while handling confidential information and meeting deadlines in a remote environment.

Leads finance strategy for Microsoft Customer Success by optimizing resource allocation, analyzing headcount and business performance, developing executive reporting, and managing budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans. Partners with Finance, Customer Success, Support Delivery, and regional leaders to align investments, improve productivity, support cloud consumption, and drive business transformation through analytics and financial modeling.

Lead FP&A activities for a growing SaaS company, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, financial modeling, headcount planning, performance reporting, investment and ROI analysis, and executive and board reporting. Partner with cross-functional leaders to optimize resource allocation, improve financial systems and data integrity, and translate business plans into actionable financial insights.

Leads finance support for cost-of-revenue functions, including manufacturing, cost accounting, clinical operations, quality, regulatory, and sales and operations planning. Owns budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, gross-margin performance, cost controls, inventory accounting, integrations, and executive decision support. Builds scalable finance capabilities, improves processes and analytics, develops high-performing teams, and partners with operations and executive leadership on productivity, risk, and strategic growth.

Provides strategic finance leadership to venture-backed AI and SaaS startups. Responsibilities include monthly close oversight, budgeting and forecasting, capital planning, treasury management, board reporting, investor updates, fundraising, M&A support, cap table analysis, revenue cycle management, cash flow planning, controls, audit readiness, and advising founders on financial strategy.

Own the Support P&L, including revenue, costs, gross margin, forecasting, budgets, estimates, and RPO reporting. Partner with Commercial, Product, Sales, Operations, and Finance teams on pricing, deal governance, profitability, and PLC strategies. Lead strategic financial reviews, challenge commercial terms, improve reporting quality, and implement sustainable process improvements. This remote role requires strong financial analysis, forecasting, business partnering, communication, and stakeholder influence.

Owns financial visibility and performance for the e-commerce business, including forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, pricing and promotion ROI, margin reporting, accruals, dashboards, and executive and board presentations. Partners cross-functionally to ensure data integrity, establish financial processes, identify risks and opportunities, and implement AI-enabled improvements across FP&A workflows.

Supports strategic finance for a multi-state healthcare startup, including monthly close, financial reporting, budget-versus-actual analysis, ROI modeling, annual planning, forecasting, and board and lender deliverables. Partners with Operations, Technology, Marketing, People, and department leaders to explain financial performance, identify issues, and support company decision-making.

Leads hospital-level financial strategy, forecasting, budgeting, capital planning, monthly close, performance analysis, and cost-containment initiatives. Provides final site-level financial recommendations, oversees risk models and investment trade-offs, negotiates budget realignment with clinical and operational leaders, and translates financial results into strategic actions. Establishes reporting and productivity standards while representing finance on executive committees and coordinating with system-wide finance functions.

Supports financial management for client projects, including project accounting, financial tracking, invoicing, accruals, reconciliations, intercompany transactions, budget monitoring, month-end close, audit support, and client collections. The role also assists with project setup, expense and hours review, contract-based billing, employee and subcontractor tracking, and annual budgeting. This is a fully remote entry-level finance position requiring strong Excel skills, analytical ability, organization, communication, and attention to detail.

Supports financial management for client projects, including project accounting, financial tracking, invoicing, accruals, reconciliations, month-end close, budget support, and audit preparation. Sets up projects, reviews hours and expenses, tracks costs against contracts, records intercompany transactions, and follows up on past-due invoices. Requires strong Excel skills, analytical ability, organization, communication, and a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business.

Oversee the department’s financial portfolio, including budget development, financial analysis, reporting, fiscal transactions, payment authorization, charge auditing, policy compliance, and financial systems. Serve as a financial subject matter expert to leadership, recommend process improvements, coordinate budget and data management, and potentially supervise staff. Partner with faculty and staff to support clinical, education, research, and service missions.

Owns FP&A for Coinbase Platform leadership, including annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, monthly planning, month-end variance analysis, financial modeling, and business reviews. Partners with senior stakeholders to guide OpEx planning, resource allocation, investment decisions, and risk assessment. Uses SQL, planning systems, visualization tools, and generative AI to analyze financial and operational data and improve decision-making.

Owns GTM finance for Sales and Marketing, including CRO OpEx budgeting, variance analysis, forecasting, revenue modeling, and headcount planning. The role analyzes CAC, LTV, payback, pipeline, and territory ROI; leads monthly and quarterly forecast operations; prepares executive and board financial packages; and improves scalable reporting processes. It partners closely with CRO and VP-level stakeholders to guide investment and revenue decisions.

Serves as a financial partner to the Product organization by developing KPI reporting, financial models, business cases, annual plans, budget tracking, variance analyses, and headcount plans. Supports product investment and pricing decisions, communicates insights to non-finance stakeholders, and improves reporting processes through automation and streamlined analysis.

Lead finance and accounting functions including strategic finance, FP&A, accounting/controllership, audit, tax, treasury, fundraising support, and investor relations. Partner with founders, board, and cross-functional leaders on planning, forecasting, pricing, M&A readiness, and scaling the finance team while maintaining strong controls and GAAP compliance.

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.

Own corporate finance processes including monthly reporting, forecasting, annual planning, scenario modeling, KPI reporting, and department budget tracking. Build and maintain three-statement operating models, improve financial tooling, automate close and forecast workflows using AI, and advise leadership on capital, headcount, and business decisions. Partner with department and go-to-market leaders while translating financial insights into actionable recommendations.

Lead strategic finance and analytics for Airbnb’s host acquisition efforts. Own forecasting, goal setting, funnel and vendor performance analysis, sales operations optimization, and marketing investment allocation. Translate complex data into financial and strategic recommendations for senior leaders, influencing decisions on lead generation, channel efficiency, supply growth, and resource allocation.

Manage accounting operations and portfolios for multiple business Members. Prepare accurate financial reports, maintain audit-ready books, reconcile accounts, track assets and liabilities, manage tax and audit documentation, support budgeting and forecasting, explain financial insights, recommend accounting automation, and mentor junior accountants. The role requires strong GAAP knowledge, QuickBooks Online expertise, Excel skills, and experience in multi-client accounting environments.

Review and rank AI-generated transaction finance outputs for accuracy, relevance, and logical consistency. Annotate errors, identify hallucinations, and provide concise written explanations for ranking decisions. The asynchronous remote study is intended for professionals with experience in transaction finance, M&A, investment banking, corporate development, or related financial modeling and deal-structuring work.

Own financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and performance management for the go-to-market business. Partner with Marketing, Product, Sales, and Operations on unit economics, customer acquisition, profitability, growth efficiency, new products, customer segments, and strategic initiatives. Develop financial metrics, deliver actionable insights, evaluate new business opportunities, and support executive decision-making. The role also interfaces with external partners through corporate development and business development activities.