Project Profitability Finance Partner

Outform; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Outform in Chicago seeks a Business Partner - Operational Finance Manager to act as an operational finance partner, focused on monitoring, reporting, and optimizing project and customer-level profitability. You will partner with operations, production, and procurement to ensure purchasing and execution align with budgets and timelines.

By delivering actionable insights, you will help drive margin protection and commercial success for complex, custom-built manufacturing projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Accounting/Finance or related field.
• 3–5 years of FP&A, business partnering, or operational finance experience, preferably in bespoke manufacturing or project-based environments.
• Proven ability in project profitability analysis and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed income statements at project and customer levels, comparing actuals to estimates.
• Perform variance analysis to explain deviations in revenue, cost, and margin and advise project managers.
• Provide financial inputs for project reviews, change orders, and customer negotiations.
• Contribute to rolling project forecasts, budgets, and month-end close with cost and margin projections.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Variance analysis

ERP systems

Excel

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

SAP ERP

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Outform in Chicago seeks a Business Partner - Operational Finance Manager to act as an operational finance partner, focused on monitoring, reporting, and optimizing project and customer-level profitability. You will partner with operations, production, and procurement to ensure purchasing and execution align with budgets and timelines.

By delivering actionable insights, you will help drive margin protection and commercial success for complex, custom-built manufacturing projects.