2 months ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$95k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy client-specific AI agents for variance analysis, close reporting, forecasting, and other financial workflows.
- Integrate AI agents with EPM and CPM platforms to read from and write back to client systems of record.
- Develop automated data reconciliation and validation workflows for period-end close, intercompany eliminations, and management reporting.
- Implement retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, tool-use patterns, and multi-step agent architectures grounded in client financial data.
- Embed with client finance, FP&A, and accounting teams to discover automation opportunities and translate requirements into technical architectures.
- Manage the full agent lifecycle from prototyping and stakeholder demonstrations through testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Contribute reusable components to Accordion’s shared agent framework and document architectures, integration patterns, and deployment playbooks.
- Establish quality standards for financial AI outputs, including accuracy validation, hallucination mitigation, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year building applications powered by large language models, AI agents, or intelligent automation.
- Strong Python proficiency and experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Anthropic API, or OpenAI API.
- Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, close management, variance analysis, and management reporting.
- Solid SQL skills and experience integrating APIs, data warehouses, ERPs, and financial systems.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with CFOs, controllers, and FP&A leaders.
- Willingness to travel to client sites up to 50–80% depending on the engagement.
- Preferred qualifications include consulting or professional services experience; familiarity with Oracle EPM Cloud, OneStream, Anaplan, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle EBS, or Microsoft Dynamics; experience building production AI systems with guardrails; cloud infrastructure experience; and background in financial data modeling, multidimensional databases, or business intelligence tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid role with flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week.
- Role can be based in any US office location, with preference for candidates local to the desired location.
- Travel to client sites may be required up to 50–80%, depending on engagement.
- Benefits and bonus are included in the compensation package.
- The employer intends to fill the current vacancy by November 3, 2026.
- The position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsForward Deployed
About Accordion
Accordion is a privately held consulting firm serving private equity firms and their portfolio companies. It provides strategic finance, accounting, FP&A, transaction execution, performance improvement, and data/technology and AI enablement services through project-based and ongoing advisory engagements. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the firm works across the investment lifecycle to strengthen CFO organizations and finance operations.