• Provide leadership in all areas affecting Research Finance; • Responsible for improving post award management leading to better, more standardized post award sponsored projects’ administration and compliance. • Manages, plans, and evaluates operations to ensure financial compliance with all relevant federal (2 C.F.R. Part 200), state laws, University and Sponsor polices and regulations. • Leads and serves as the point of contact with auditors and sponsors on all financial matters of sponsored projects. • Responsible for the development of the post award policies and procedures in cooperation with other relevant departments. • Responsible for the review of sponsored research contracts/agreements in cooperation with other departments, and transmittance of executed contracts/agreements to sponsors, prime institutions and sub-awardees. • Manages month-end and fiscal year end closing process for grants and accounts receivable.

Role Description Wir suchen aktuell: Consultant Financial Services (m/w/d) - 100 % Homeoffice in Düsseldorf. Unser Partner ist ein spezialisiertes mittelständisches Beratungsunternehmen im Bereich Financial Services. Hier wird zum nächstmöglichen Eintrittstermin ein Consultant (m/w/d) im Fachbereich Financial Services gesucht. - Sie bieten eine professionelle Beratung für Banken und Unternehmen aus dem Finanzdienstleistungssektor. - Sie unterstützen bei anspruchsvollen und abwechslungsreichen Projektarbeiten in aktuellen Branchenthemen, insbesondere bei Softwareumstellungen von Banksystemen. - Sie übersetzen komplexe fachliche Vorgänge in technische Anforderungen für die Programmierung. - Sie bilden die Schnittstelle zwischen IT und Fachabteilungen für fachliche Anforderungen aus dem Projektgeschäft. Qualifications - Ein erfolgreich abgeschlossenes Studium mit quantitativen Komponenten. - Praktische Erfahrung im Finanzdienstleistungssektor (Bank, Bankenaufsicht, Wirtschaftsprüfung, Consulting, Versicherung oder Vergleichbares). - Bankspezifische Produkt-, Methoden- und Prozesskenntnisse. - Expertise aus den Bereichen Risikocontrolling, Meldewesen, Aufsichtsrecht, Rechnungswesen, Banksteuerung. - Hohe Affinität zur IT und Programmierung. - Sichere und gewandte Kommunikation in deutscher und englischer Sprache. - Freude an anspruchsvollen Aufgaben und lösungsorientiertes, eigenständiges Arbeiten. - Sicheres Auftreten und die Fähigkeit, komplexe Sachverhalte verständlich zu formulieren. Benefits - Einen unbefristeten Arbeitsvertrag in Direktanstellung bei unserem Kunden. - Attraktive Vergütung, flexible Arbeitszeiten und die Möglichkeit zu 100 % im Homeoffice zu arbeiten. - Abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeiten und spannende Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten innerhalb des Unternehmens. - Umfangreiche, individuelle Trainings und Weiterqualifizierungsmöglichkeiten. - Zahlreiche Mitarbeiter Benefits wie z. B. Jobrad, Zuschüsse für Fitnessclub und Kinderbetreuung, uvm. Contact Ihr Ansprechpartner: Herr Torben Deeg simplecon GmbH Mittelweg 144 20148 Hamburg 040 228 6869 31 jobs@simplecon.de

Director of Finance Chicago, IL $90,000 — $100,000 ABOUT THE COMPANY: Our client is a rapidly growing non-profit organization who are looking to add a Director of Finance to their team. The company has enjoyed incredible success in the last few years’ and are seeking a candidate with a similar background to join their team as they continue their expansion. Reasons to Work Here: - Remote and then hybrid working schedule - Strong healthcare / dental / vision - PTO - Strong growth - Strong mission statement - Hybrid role - $90,000 – $100,000 a year. Role: As Director of Finance, the position serves as fiscal project manager overseeing grants and fiscal management including reporting, analysis, assist with auditing, policy / procedures / protocol development ensuring the overall fiscal health and sustainability of the organization and its programs. Key Responsibilities: ● Prepares monthly financial statements; implements proactive strategies to resolve financial condition compliance issues as needed. ● Works with third-parting accounting/bookkeeping providers and/or internal staff to control costs and reconcile expenditures. ● Analyzes and prepares budgets, creates accounts, and works with the financial accounting system to allocate, authorize, monitor, and control expenses. ● Create relevant policies, procedures, internal controls and tracking management systems that support fiscal grants management sustainability. ● Reconciles monthly financial data, assists in the preparation of monthly variance reports and annual effort reports, supports the year-end close process. ● Serves as the primary contact for grants and contracts management, including processing all grants through relevant grants management systems. ● Works with programmatic leads on financial tracking and grant reporting to ensure that grant funds are expended and reported in a timely fashion. ● Manages the grant’s budget, ensuring budgets and fund accounts set-up. ● Manages the post-award phase of the grant’s lifecycle. ● Manage the financial accounting and tracking for real estate properties and related development projects including but not limited to rent payments and operational costs. ● Support property acquisitions and loan closings for real estate projects and related development projects ● Oversees the procurement process for the selection of vendors and service providers and the purchase of equipment and supplies, as applicable to the grant; ensures costs are allocated to appropriate grant fund accounts and purchases adhere to procurement policies and procedures. ● Reviews audits, financial statements, operating budgets, and other financial documents to verify grant compliance. ● Keeps abreast of changes to financial systems, policies, regulations, and guidelines; proposing efficiency improvements as needed. ● Prepares and maintains all financial compliance documentation (including compliance monitoring findings, responses, resolutions, reports) in hard copy or electronic form as required. Performs simple and complex financial calculations to assess financial feasibility/viability and ensure compliance. Qualifications: ● Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is required. Master’s degree preferred. ● Certified public accountant (CPA) a plus ● At least 5-7 years experience conducting financial analysis or fiscal monitoring ● Working knowledge of Grants Management and Financial Accounting Enterprise systems including Quickbooks or any other accounting system is required. ● Understanding of account reconciliations, general ledger processing, financial statements, investments, and financial reports, required. ● Ability to communicate effectively with strong oral and written communication skills. ● Ability to work independently and meet time-sensitive deadlines. ● Strong proficiency in Intermediate/Advanced MS Excel including pivot tables and other complex analysis techniques. ● Strong analytical and problem resolution skills required.

About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. About Design at Gusto Design at Gusto is made up of over 80 creative, collaborative people who care deeply about our mission to empower small businesses and their employees. We're a cross-functional group that is always looking for opportunities to build understanding and empathy for the people who use Gusto. We don't care much about swim lanes and though we care deeply about quality and craft, we are never precious about it. We work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to design, build, and ship experiences that make a real difference. We believe great design can make hard things possible, even delightful. We are building an AI-native design organization — and we mean that seriously. We're looking for designers who are already working this way: using AI to prototype ideas quickly, shorten customer feedback loops, and ship quality UX directly to customers. This isn't a future aspiration — it's how we work now, and it's changing what the design role looks like at Gusto and across the industry. About the role Gusto is building the financial platform that small businesses will rely on for the next decade, and AI is at the center of that. From how businesses move money, to how Gusto manages risk and verifies identity, AI is changing what's possible across every part of the experience. The design challenge is defining what it looks like to build those products right: not just faster and smarter, but genuinely trustworthy for the hundreds of thousands of businesses and employees who depend on them. As the Sr. Staff Product Designer, Finance, you'll set the UX vision and strategy across four interconnected product areas: Business Money, Consumer Money, Payments, and Risk. Your role is to see what individual teams can't, identifying opportunities and systemic gaps that span the full financial experience, and to drive the work that makes Gusto's financial products feel clear, trustworthy, and empowering for hundreds of thousands of small businesses and their employees. Nobody has fully figured out what AI-first financial UX looks like at scale. This role is the chance to define it at Gusto. Your work will span the full scope: defining a long-term UX vision that connects financial and trust experiences across teams, identifying and driving high-impact opportunities that no single pod could tackle alone, and shaping product strategy alongside product directors and engineering leaders. You'll step in as a direct IC on the highest-priority projects, develop other designers, and contribute platform patterns that scale beyond the Money and Risk teams. About the team The Money team builds the financial products that help small businesses and their employees move, manage, and access money—from the tools owners use to run their business finances, to the financial benefits available to their teams. As Gusto deepens its financial ecosystem, this team sits at the center of making money movement faster, simpler, and more empowering for hundreds of thousands of small businesses and the people who work for them. The Risk team is the trust layer that makes all of it possible. They build the systems that protect customers and Gusto from fraud and financial exposure, and the identity infrastructure that determines how customers verify who they are and how they access Gusto's financial products. It's foundational work: quiet when it's working, critical when it's not. Together, these two teams own one of the broadest and most consequential design scopes at Gusto. Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day: - Set the UX vision and strategy across the Money and Risk teams, connecting the dots across multiple pods and ensuring a cohesive experience throughout the platform. - Identify and drive high-impact design opportunities across the Money and Risk teams, spotting what individual pods can't see from inside their area, and bringing the right partners along to pursue them. - Influence product strategy, roadmap priorities, and team OKRs across Money and Risk through a design lens—operating as a senior design co-owner alongside product directors and engineering leaders. - Define what AI-first financial UX looks like at Gusto, including how to represent uncertainty clearly, surface errors gracefully, preserve user agency when AI recommendations are wrong, and build trust across consequential automated decisions. - Own how the Money and Risk teams build and share customer understanding: setting learning priorities, synthesizing insights across pods, and ensuring customer knowledge consistently informs direction rather than sitting siloed within individual teams. - Shape and raise the quality bar for experiences across the Money and Risk teams through hands-on design work, setting direction, and ensuring what ships reflect a high standard of craft. Step in as a direct IC on specific projects when necessary. - Develop other designers on Money and Risk through coaching, critique, and structured mentorship, acting as a force multiplier, not just a strong individual contributor. - Champion and evolve Gusto's design system and platform standards through your product work, contributing patterns and frameworks that scale beyond Money and Risk. Here’s what we're looking for: - 10+ years of Product Design experience, with a track record of leading design direction across multiple teams, pods, or product domains simultaneously, not just a single-product or single-pod context. - You've designed for high-trust, high-stakes experiences where errors have real consequences and clarity is non-negotiable (e.g. payments, risk, compliance, healthcare, or similar). Fintech or financial services background is a plus. - You've shaped product strategy at the domain or portfolio level alongside product directors and engineering leaders, not just executed within a single product scope. - You have a high bar for craft and stay hands-on, prototyping, iterating, and shipping alongside strategy, not just advising from above. You raise the bar for the designers around you through coaching, critique, and mentorship. - You advance experience architectures and service models that span multiple teams, identifying systemic opportunities and organizational barriers, and driving changes that improve coherence and outcomes at scale. - You thrive in ambiguity, lead through influence across teams, and are skilled at anticipating organizational friction, structuring how design work is coordinated across multiple teams to maximize impact and reduce drag. - You actively use AI in your own design practice and can direct others to do the same, evaluating AI-generated outputs critically, knowing when to override or course-correct, and raising the quality bar on AI-assisted work across the teams you support. - You have a point of view on how AI is changing product design, and you've acted on it. You can articulate what you've learned and where you think it's going. At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page. Our cash compensation range for this role is $172,000/yr to $215,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $202,000/yr to $253,000/yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above. #LI-DNI Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale. Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees. Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto. Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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