OceanComm
Finance & Business Operations Lead
$100K–$125K
Chicago, Illinois · Full-time · Posted Jun 9, 2026
- Experience
- Meaningful hands-on finance, accounting, or audit experience; two to five years of full-time professional experience is listed as a preferred qualification.
- Education
- Completed bachelor’s or master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
About the job
Own financial planning and accounting operations while building scalable HR, contract, compliance, and business processes in partnership with the CEO.
What you'll do
- Partner with the CEO on financial planning, pricing, margins, working capital, and resource allocation; maintain financial projections and the operating model.
- Coordinate accounting workflows, including payroll inputs, expenses, accounts receivable and payable, controls, and reporting.
- Manage HR administration, contracts, compliance processes, and scalable SOPs, dashboards, approval workflows, and automation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Hands-on accounting, audit, or finance experience through full-time work, internships, or co-ops.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a personnel security clearance; an active clearance is not required at hire.
- Discretion, high integrity, strong emotional intelligence, and ability to improve workflows and automate tasks.
Nice to have
- Two to five years of full-time professional experience in a relevant finance, accounting, audit, operations, or internal systems field.
- Experience with QuickBooks or similar systems, or in a startup, manufacturing, government contracting, regulated, technical, or hands-on environment; interest in ERP transition.
Pay
USD 100,000 – 125,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
QuickBooks, Acumatica, NetSuite, Odoo
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