H-1B1 Chile Visa Financial Officer Jobs
Financial Officer jobs with H-1B1 Chile visa sponsorship are open to Chilean nationals under the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. No lottery, no USCIS petition filing, and the 1,400-visa annual cap rarely fills, making this one of the most direct paths for Chilean finance professionals into U.S. corporate roles.
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Envoy has been serving communities across the state of Indiana with high-end and community focused development and construction projects for the last 40+ years. We are a multifaceted company driven to enrich our communities and our team. We are a team of collaborative self-starters. We value commitment and transparency while standing by our family-like company culture.
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned, strategic, and analytical Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with extensive experience in both construction and real estate development. As a key executive, you will drive our financial strategy, ensuring fiscal stability, high performance job costing, and profitable development strategies. The ideal candidate will manage complex cash flows across multiple projects, optimize capital structures, and foster strong relationships with lenders and investors.
Responsibilities:
- Construction Financial Management: Oversee job-cost accounting, WIP schedules, percentage-of-completion reporting, retainage, change-order tracking, subcontractor payment controls, margin fade analysis, backlog reporting, and project-level cash-flow forecasting.
- Construction Financial Operations: Supervise the accounting department to deliver accurate and timely monthly/annual financial statements, ensuring adherence to GAAP and construction-specific accounting principles.
- Construction Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to contracts, bonding, insurance, and interest rates.
- Cash Flow Management: Monitor and project cash flow needs for projects, managing liquidity during long construction/development timelines and high-capital phases.
- Technology & Systems: Modernize financial reporting systems, including construction accounting, job-cost reporting, WIP reporting, development pro formas, investor reporting, document controls, cash-flow forecasting, and dashboard reporting.
- CEO Strategic Partner: Serve as the CEO’s principal financial strategist on project selection, capital allocation, investor presentations, municipal finance strategy, lender negotiations, and enterprise risk management.
- Financial Operations: Ensure compliance with GAAP, construction-specific accounting practices, lender reporting requirements, investor reporting standards, and real estate development reporting expectations.
- Capital & Liquidity Management: Lead capital raising efforts, manage relationships with lenders and equity partners and oversee debt restructuring and refinancing activities.
- Investment Strategy: Provide financial oversight for acquisitions, dispositions, and development projects. Lead the underwriting process and perform rigorous due diligence to ensure risk-adjusted returns.
- Strategic Planning: Develop long-range financial forecasts and portfolio-level stress tests to navigate market volatility.
- Investor Relationships: Manage communications with lenders, equity partners, private investors, municipal stakeholders, public finance professionals, and project partners.
- Capital Stack Development: Lead the design of project-level capital stacks using senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, common equity, public incentives, TIF revenues, tax abatements, grants, infrastructure reimbursements, seller financing, and other project-specific funding sources. Prepare investor-ready financial models and financing packages that clearly show sources and uses, returns, risk allocation, collateral, guarantees, public participation, and investor exit strategy.
- Municipal & Public Finance Strategy: Support the structuring, analysis, and presentation of municipal project financing strategies, including tax increment financing, public-private partnerships, bond proceeds, lease financing, tax abatements, developer-backed obligations, and other public revenue sources. Coordinate with bond counsel, municipal advisors, redevelopment commissions, fiscal officers, lenders, and local government stakeholders.
- Public-Sector Accountability: Ensure that public-finance recommendations, incentive requests, reimbursement structures, and project-funding analyses are documented, transparent, defensible, and suitable for presentation to elected officials, redevelopment commissions, fiscal bodies, municipal advisors, bond counsel, and the public.
- Advanced project-finance modeling experience, including sources-and-uses schedules, development pro formas, debt-service coverage, IRR/equity analysis, sensitivity testing, tax increment projections, construction draw schedules, lease-up/stabilization projections, and investor return waterfalls.
- Bank, Bonding & Surety Relationships: Manage relationships with banks, sureties, lenders, and guarantors. Maintain accurate financial reporting, backlog analysis, WIP schedules, and forecasts required to preserve and expand bonding capacity.
Qualifications
- Experience: 10+ years in a senior financial leadership role, with a significant portion spent within the Construction and Real Estate and Development industries.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required; MBA or CPA strongly preferred.
- Industry Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of construction accounting, job costing, tax credits, and project-based revenue recognition.
- Technical Expertise: Proven track record in complex deal structuring, municipal finance, joint venture (JV) waterfalls, and tax strategies (including 1031 exchanges or Opportunity Zones).
- Leadership: Experience managing high-performing teams and collaborating across company departments.
- Skills: Excellent analytical, negotiating, and strategic planning skills.
- Soft Skills: A “deal-maker” mentality balanced with rigorous financial discipline and the ability to translate complex data into actionable executive insights.
About us
Envoy has been serving communities across the state of Indiana with high-end and community focused development and construction projects for the last 40+ years. We are a multifaceted company driven to enrich our communities and our team. We are a team of collaborative self-starters. We value commitment and transparency while standing by our family-like company culture.
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned, strategic, and analytical Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with extensive experience in both construction and real estate development. As a key executive, you will drive our financial strategy, ensuring fiscal stability, high performance job costing, and profitable development strategies. The ideal candidate will manage complex cash flows across multiple projects, optimize capital structures, and foster strong relationships with lenders and investors.
Responsibilities:
- Construction Financial Management: Oversee job-cost accounting, WIP schedules, percentage-of-completion reporting, retainage, change-order tracking, subcontractor payment controls, margin fade analysis, backlog reporting, and project-level cash-flow forecasting.
- Construction Financial Operations: Supervise the accounting department to deliver accurate and timely monthly/annual financial statements, ensuring adherence to GAAP and construction-specific accounting principles.
- Construction Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to contracts, bonding, insurance, and interest rates.
- Cash Flow Management: Monitor and project cash flow needs for projects, managing liquidity during long construction/development timelines and high-capital phases.
- Technology & Systems: Modernize financial reporting systems, including construction accounting, job-cost reporting, WIP reporting, development pro formas, investor reporting, document controls, cash-flow forecasting, and dashboard reporting.
- CEO Strategic Partner: Serve as the CEO’s principal financial strategist on project selection, capital allocation, investor presentations, municipal finance strategy, lender negotiations, and enterprise risk management.
- Financial Operations: Ensure compliance with GAAP, construction-specific accounting practices, lender reporting requirements, investor reporting standards, and real estate development reporting expectations.
- Capital & Liquidity Management: Lead capital raising efforts, manage relationships with lenders and equity partners and oversee debt restructuring and refinancing activities.
- Investment Strategy: Provide financial oversight for acquisitions, dispositions, and development projects. Lead the underwriting process and perform rigorous due diligence to ensure risk-adjusted returns.
- Strategic Planning: Develop long-range financial forecasts and portfolio-level stress tests to navigate market volatility.
- Investor Relationships: Manage communications with lenders, equity partners, private investors, municipal stakeholders, public finance professionals, and project partners.
- Capital Stack Development: Lead the design of project-level capital stacks using senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferred equity, common equity, public incentives, TIF revenues, tax abatements, grants, infrastructure reimbursements, seller financing, and other project-specific funding sources. Prepare investor-ready financial models and financing packages that clearly show sources and uses, returns, risk allocation, collateral, guarantees, public participation, and investor exit strategy.
- Municipal & Public Finance Strategy: Support the structuring, analysis, and presentation of municipal project financing strategies, including tax increment financing, public-private partnerships, bond proceeds, lease financing, tax abatements, developer-backed obligations, and other public revenue sources. Coordinate with bond counsel, municipal advisors, redevelopment commissions, fiscal officers, lenders, and local government stakeholders.
- Public-Sector Accountability: Ensure that public-finance recommendations, incentive requests, reimbursement structures, and project-funding analyses are documented, transparent, defensible, and suitable for presentation to elected officials, redevelopment commissions, fiscal bodies, municipal advisors, bond counsel, and the public.
- Advanced project-finance modeling experience, including sources-and-uses schedules, development pro formas, debt-service coverage, IRR/equity analysis, sensitivity testing, tax increment projections, construction draw schedules, lease-up/stabilization projections, and investor return waterfalls.
- Bank, Bonding & Surety Relationships: Manage relationships with banks, sureties, lenders, and guarantors. Maintain accurate financial reporting, backlog analysis, WIP schedules, and forecasts required to preserve and expand bonding capacity.
Qualifications
- Experience: 10+ years in a senior financial leadership role, with a significant portion spent within the Construction and Real Estate and Development industries.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required; MBA or CPA strongly preferred.
- Industry Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of construction accounting, job costing, tax credits, and project-based revenue recognition.
- Technical Expertise: Proven track record in complex deal structuring, municipal finance, joint venture (JV) waterfalls, and tax strategies (including 1031 exchanges or Opportunity Zones).
- Leadership: Experience managing high-performing teams and collaborating across company departments.
- Skills: Excellent analytical, negotiating, and strategic planning skills.
- Soft Skills: A “deal-maker” mentality balanced with rigorous financial discipline and the ability to translate complex data into actionable executive insights.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Financial Officer Jobs
Verify your degree field before applying
Financial Officer roles require a specialty occupation, meaning your degree must be directly related to finance, accounting, or economics. A business administration degree alone may not satisfy the requirement if the role demands a specific financial discipline.
Pull your prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for Financial Officers in your target city before your first salary conversation. Your employer's Labor Condition Application must certify a wage at or above that level, so knowing it in advance strengthens your negotiating position.
Target employers already filing LCAs for finance roles
Search Migrate Mate to identify companies with active H-1B1 Chile sponsorship history in financial roles. Employers already familiar with the LCA process move faster and are less likely to stall when you raise the visa question.
Understand the consular filing sequence for your offer
Once your employer has a certified LCA, you apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago rather than waiting for USCIS to process a petition. Build this timeline into your start date discussion, since consular appointment availability varies.
Check O*NET before writing your resume
The O*NET profile for Financial Officers lists the core tasks and knowledge areas USCIS and consular officers use to evaluate specialty occupation status. Aligning your resume language to that profile makes the qualification case cleaner for your employer's LCA.
Prepare a credential equivalency letter for three-year degrees
Chilean universities commonly award three-year licenciatura degrees. If yours is under four years, get a foreign credential evaluation confirming U.S. bachelor equivalency before your employer files the LCA. Missing this step frequently delays or derails the specialty occupation determination.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Financial Officer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Chile?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as finance, accounting, or economics. Generic management roles with no specific degree requirement can fail the specialty occupation test. Your employer's job description must establish that the role demands theoretical and practical application of a body of specialized knowledge.
How does the H-1B1 Chile process differ from H-1B for a Financial Officer?
With H-1B1 Chile there is no lottery, no USCIS petition, and no employer filing fee paid to USCIS. Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL, and you apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago. H-1B visa requires USCIS approval and is subject to an annual lottery that most candidates don't survive on the first attempt.
Where can I find Financial Officer jobs where the employer already understands H-1B1 Chile sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by employers with documented H-1B1 Chile sponsorship history, so you aren't starting cold with companies unfamiliar with the visa. Targeting employers who have filed before reduces the education burden on you and shortens the time from offer to visa appointment at the Embassy in Santiago.
What happens to my H-1B1 Chile status if my Financial Officer role changes significantly?
A material change in job duties, title, or employer requires a new Labor Condition Application and a new visa application at the consulate. H-1B1 Chile is role-specific and employer-specific, so an internal promotion that substantially changes the position should be reviewed against the original LCA terms before it takes effect.
Can I bring my spouse or dependents on H-1B1 Chile while working as a Financial Officer?
H-1B1 Chile does not have a statutory dependent visa category equivalent to the H-4. Your spouse and dependents would need to qualify independently for another nonimmigrant status, such as a B-2 visa visitor visa, to accompany you during your assignment. This is one of the practical differences worth discussing with your employer during offer negotiations.