Staff Accountant

Description

Department:

Finance

Reports To:

Senior Director of Finance

Classification:

Exempt

Status:

Regular, Full time

Direct Reports:

None

Salary Range:

$55,000 $ 65,000 annually

The Staff Accountant supports the organization’s daily accounting operations, with a primary emphasis on accounts payable. This role is responsible for ensuring timely and accurate vendor payments, managing general ledger entries, performing reconciliations, and assisting with financial report preparation within a collaborative finance team.

The Minnesota Orchestra is a Grammy Award-winning orchestra known for acclaimed performances in Minnesota and around the world, a storied history of recordings and radio broadcasts, innovative educational engagement programs and a commitment to new orchestral music. Founded by Emil Oberhoffer in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the organization was the eighth major orchestra established in the United States. In 1911, it began a series of children's concerts under the sponsorship of the Young People's Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA), which continues to this day.

Early in the 1920s, the orchestra was one of the first to be heard on recordings and on the radio, playing a nationally broadcast concert with guest conductor Bruno Walter in 1923. In 1968, the orchestra changed its name to the Minnesota Orchestra (or Minnesota Orchestral Association).

Today the Orchestra performs a wide variety of music including nearly 175 concerts in a typical year, primarily at Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis, the organization’s home since 1974. The Orchestra is led by Music Director Thomas Søndergård and has historically toured regularly throughout Minnesota, nationally and abroad. The Minnesota Orchestra has an annual budget of $42.6M and ended FY2024 with net assets of $185.5M.

The organization employs over 150 FT employees and over 100 PT staff and is supported and governed by an 80+ member Board of Directors. In 2024-25, 237,875 guests attended in-person concerts; with audio streaming, digital concerts, TV and radio broadcasts included that number reached more than 2.5 million people.

We believe every employee is essential to the success of the organization and critical to accomplishing our mission to enrich, inspire and serve our community.

Our working relationships are based on respect for each other as individuals, confidence in one another, and a genuine desire to actively listen and collaborate with each other.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization that honors and reflects the community we serve, welcomes, and instills diversity across our organization, and nurtures an equitable and inclusive culture.

• Process accounts payable invoices, ensure accurate coding, and execute timely vendor payments
• Maintain vendor records, support 1099 reporting and year end processes
• Post journal entries, assist with monthly close procedures, and perform account reconciliations
• Support preparation of financial statements and internal reports
• Work cross departmentally to verify proper documentation for expenditures
• Assist with audit preparation and respond to internal and external audit requests
• Provide backup support across finance functions as needed
• Identify and implement process improvements in AP and accounting workflows

• Demonstrate integrity in actions and words
• Uphold Minnesota Orchestra values in all interactions
• Meet deadlines and maintain high accuracy in all deliverables
• Support a collaborative and inclusive team culture
• Take initiative in identifying and solving challenges
• Provide excellent service to internal and external stakeholders