Staff Accountant

• A shorter week. You’re done at 12:30 every Friday, and in the summer you get every other Friday off.
• You’d own the books and have a real say in how they’re run.
• A CFO who doesn’t micromanage, wants your ideas, and will teach you nonprofit accounting if it’s new to you.
• A modern setup:
  Quick Books Online, Ramp and outsourced payroll, with transactions matched close to real time.
• One interview with the CFO and no board sign-off.

Why This Job

We’ve partnered with a mission-driven nonprofit in Belgrade. They’re a small team that’s growing in 2027, and this is their second finance hire. You’d report straight to the CFO.

The CFO was their first finance hire. He built their policies and procedures and got them through their first full audit. Now he’s spending more of his time on long-term planning with leadership, so he needs someone to take over the day-to-day books. He also wants to hear from you when you see a better way to do something.

You don’t need nonprofit experience. He didn’t have any when he started there, and he’ll coach you on it. If you’re more senior and want a shorter week, he’s open to that too. Part time is an option for the right person.

What You’ll Do

• Code and match bank and credit card transactions, with the receipts behind them.
• Handle payables from the time a bill comes in until it’s paid.
• Close the month and own the bank and credit card reconciliations.
• Take over payroll journal entries and reconciliations once payroll moves to the CFO, expected in 2027.
• Work with the CFO on the annual audit and pull together what the auditors need.
• Record in-kind donations correctly, with support for each one.
• Spot what looks off and suggest the fix.
• Find better ways to use Quick Books.

What You Bring

• About 3+ years of hands-on bookkeeping or accounting. More senior is welcome.
• Experience coding transactions, running AP and doing reconciliations.
• An associate’s or bachelor’s in accounting, or bookkeeping training, is preferred, but experience can make up for it.
• Quick Books Online or something similar.
• Fund accounting is a plus.
• You like owning the monthly cycle and keep it moving on your own.
• You handle payroll and donor information with discretion.
• You live close enough to Belgrade to be in the office part of the time.

Where and How Much

• Location:
  
  Belgrade, MT. In the office while you learn their systems, then hybrid is possible.
• Pay: $70K to $80K, plus a bonus that has historically run 10% to 20%.
• Schedule:
  
  Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 4, Friday 8:30 to 12:30. Part time is open for the right person.
• Time off: 12 days of PTO in years 1 and 2, growing to 15 and then 17, plus 7 paid sick days.
• Benefits for full-time employees:
• Health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, plus dental and vision, with half the premium paid
• SIMPLE IRA now, moving to a 401(k) with a match of up to 4% in 2027
• Optional supplemental plans through payroll

What changed

• The Friday half day was only in the schedule line. It’s the strongest perk for a candidate, so it now leads.
• Schedule, PTO and sick days are grouped together so the time‑off picture is in one place.
• “Challenge how things are done” appeared twice, so I kept it in the intro and cut it from the duty list.
• The one-interview, no-board-sign-off detail is now in the top bullets where people will see it.

Worth confirming before you post

• Without the military line, “mission-driven” is vague. If the client is okay with a neutral line about who they serve, candidates will want to know.
• When does PTO step up to 15 and 17 days? Candidates will ask.
• Does the 50% premium cover dependents, or just the employee?