Remote Finance Transformation Senior Associate

CohnReznick; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Flexible work environment

Parental leave

Learning & development

Volunteer time off

Job summary

CohnReznick's Finance Transformation Advisory team in Chicago is seeking a Senior Associate to help clients transform finance operations through rapid diagnostics, roadmaps, and automation initiatives.

You will work on real estate and other mid-market sectors, collaborate with advisory professionals, manage project delivery, and apply AI-enabled approaches to drive efficiency while maintaining strong stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Experience with Real Estate clients.
• Exposure to AI-driven automation and hyperautomation trends.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with data analytics and KPIs to support process improvement.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Good interpersonal and agile project/time management skills.
• Strong project management experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at various levels.
• Creativity and willingness to take on new challenges.
• Experience or exposure in 1–2 domains preferred (e.g., Finance, Operations).
• BS/BA or higher required; MBA a plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications; exposure to workflow automation and process mining tools.
• Strong proficiency in utilizing LLMs as part of daily work.

Responsibilities

• Assist in executing functional assessments, rapid diagnostics, transformation roadmaps, and automation solutions.
• Contribute to business transformation and automation projects, including analyzing current operations, supporting future-state design, and helping implement transformation roadmaps.
• Support efforts to optimize and automate clients’ back-office functions.
• Collaborate with teams on designing and implementing new operating models, organizational realignment, shared services/centers of excellence, process improvements, and automation solutions.
• Research and assist in deploying business process automation tools, such as AI and related technologies.
• Participate in requirements gathering, process and functional design, prototyping, testing, training, and solution adoption.
• Help assess and implement business process automation with functional tool upgrades such as AI and process automation.
• Serve as a project manager on select engagements

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Real Estate experience

AI-driven automation

Stakeholder communication

Project management

Agile/project/time management

LLMs in daily work

Travel up to 30%

Education

BS/BA

MBA a plus

Tools

MS Office

Workflow automation tools

Process mining

LLMs

Job description

CohnReznick's Finance Transformation Advisory team in Chicago is seeking a Senior Associate to help clients transform finance operations through rapid diagnostics, roadmaps, and automation initiatives.

You will work on real estate and other mid-market sectors, collaborate with advisory professionals, manage project delivery, and apply AI-enabled approaches to drive efficiency while maintaining strong stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills.