CAAS- Controller -Nonprofit
Oak Brook, ILFull-time$87–175K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
CLA is hiring a Controller for its Non-Profit Services CAAS practice, serving clients through accounting and finance engagements. The role acts as a client controller and advisor, manages projects and deadlines, prepares and analyzes financial statements, and advises management on financial objectives and policies. Opportunities are available in Chicago, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio locations.
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Full job description
CLA is a top national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 9,000 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.
CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.
About the role:
CAAS service helps our clients transform their Business with a collaborative approach that allows them to seamlessly mitigate risk, overcome challenges, meet deadlines, and identify personnel to help them with their workforce needs.
CLA is looking to hire a Controller for our Non-Profit Services (CAAS) practice. Opportunities are available in our Chicago, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio locations
As a Controller, you will:
- Act as the Controller for the designated clients you service.
- Take on the role of consultant and advisor to your clients on best practices for accounting and finance-related engagements.
- Provide project management expertise by managing multiple clients, work, and deadlines.
- Prepare and analyze client financial statements and make recommendations.
- Foster and build opportunities and attend industry-leading events and trainings.
- Maintain knowledge of the client’s organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards.
- Advise management on short-term and long term-financial objectives, policies, and actions.
What you will need:
- Eight years of relevant accounting and/or financial experience is required.
- Bachelor’s degree is required. Combination of related experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- Experience in Nonprofit is highly preferred.
- CPA certification is preferred but not required.
- Prior project management and client management experience preferred but not required.
Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range.
The compensation range for this position in Illinois is: $87,000.00 – $175,000.00
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Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.
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How this job compares
Set against the 759 open Controller jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$87–175K/yr
- US median$130–170K/yr303 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $131K, is 11% below the US median midpoint ($147K) — in the middle half of Controller salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Controller jobs in Illinois and 759 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Controller postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (605 postings).
- Education
- 402 of the 759 open Controller jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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