Accounting Manager

• They're a Bozeman nonprofit that plays a huge role in bettering the Valley.
• They just came off a record fundraising year, and they keep expanding what they offer.
• Great office environment and culture, with very strong leaders available for mentorship.
• An accounting team with a curious mindset. Always experimenting and trying new things.

This is an accounting manager role for a truly exceptional leadership team. The Controller and the head of finance come from Fortune 100 companies and well-known startups, and that kind of mentorship is rare to find in Bozeman. Both are committed to running the nonprofit as well as it can possibly be run, so the organization can focus on giving back to the community and not on the financials.

This is an accounting role for a team that doesn't just want to do the month-end close. They want to make it better, and that's the half of this job that makes it interesting. They set their close timelines as a team, and getting there can come through automation or through finding efficiencies in AI (they use Copilot). They're looking for someone with that same mindset, who would take a look at a ten-hour manual reconciliation and find a way to build something new so it only takes an hour.

The key thing for this role is that it's a real management position. You'll have two direct reports and managing is a huge part of this job. You'll have to give actual feedback and hold people accountable to deadlines. The culture is accountability with grace, and the flexibility is real.

If you're looking for an opportunity to lead a team, give back to the community and learn from the best in the Valley, this one could be for you.

• Own the close, end to end, across the parent and its subsidiaries. The Accountant prepares, you review, approve and post the journal entries and reconciliations, and you're accountable for it landing on time.
• Be the person who knows how every dollar is coded. You guide the AP Specialist and oversee payables, receivables, vendor approvals, invoicing and reimbursements.
• Run the budget-to-actual meetings with department heads after the soft close, because you'll know best where the expenses went and why.
• Go find the bottlenecks and kill the manual work. This is an explicit mandate to change the process, not just execute it.
• Own payroll accounting. Bi-weekly journal entries, monthly accruals, and the PTO, retirement and benefit liability reconciliations.
• Build the audit and tax work papers. Pull the testing samples, build the packet in Excel, hand the auditors something documented, then prepare the 990 work papers in the fall.
• Review the investment pool schedules, research the odd gifts and pledges, run the annual spending distribution, and clean up the legacy GL accounts.
• Supervise and develop two people, and coordinate the team's workflow in

• You have genuinely managed people. Managing an audit engagement or a project isn't the same thing, and they know the difference. Even supervising one person counts, as long as you gave the hard feedback.
• Five to seven years in accounting, with real ownership of a month-end close and work-paper review to a GAAP standard.
• An accounting or finance degree and a working grip on debits and credits.
• A CPA is welcome and genuinely not a deal breaker.
• Advanced Excel, and an actual appetite for automating things rather than inheriting them.
• Nonprofit accounting is preferred and NOT required. The fund and grant work sits with a separate team, so what you'd learn is the 501(c)(3) tax nuance.
• Their ERP is Blackbaud Financial Edge. Net Suite, Oracle or Sage maps over almost one to one.
• At three to five years without the management piece, it's still worth a conversation. They're open to shaping this as a senior accountant seat.

• Bozeman, MT. In the office the first 90 days, then genuinely flexible. They are open to relocation and can offer assistance there.
• $90,000 to $100,000 depending on experience.
• Employee-only medical, dental and vision at $0, up to $400 a month toward dependent medical, and an employer-funded HSA on the high deductible plan.
• 403(b) with a 7 percent employer contribution from your one-year anniversary. Employer-paid life, AD&DD and disability, FSAs, an EAP, and tuition assistance.
• About five weeks of PTO in year one.
• About 40 hours a week. The first ten days of each month are busiest and even then it's 42 rather than 50. July and August is audit season.