Founding CPA - Client Accounting & Advisory

ABOUT RELIEVER

Reliever is the back office for youth sports. Backed and co-founded by Rally Ventures, we are building a purpose-built financial operating system for the volunteer-run nonprofit associations that power community sports across America - organizations that move hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year through dues, fundraisers, sponsor ships, and charitable gambling, all managed by volunteers on nights and weekends.

These associations carry real financial complexity, with dozens of team bank accounts, contractor payments, Form 990 and UBIT obligations, state gambling compliance, and board-level fiduciary duty, but they are too small to afford professional financial staff. The tools they use today were never designed for them: spreadsheets, personal Quick Books files, email chains, and paper checks. Reliever replaces that patchwork with one platform that combines modern software, embedded banking, and professional accounting services - so every board can prove every dollar reached the kids.

We are a funded, pre-seed-stage company launching with anchor design partners in the Minnesota hockey market in the second half of 2026. You would join as one of the first hires on the founding team, working directly with the CEO and leadership.

This is a hybrid role based in the Twin Cities metro, working from our Minneapolis, Minnesota office. Candidates must currently reside in, or be relocating to, the Twin Cities metro area.

This is not a traditional staff accountant seat at a firm. You will be the credentialed professional at the center of Reliever’s service delivery and will be personally delivering accounting, bookkeeping, audit-readiness, and tax preparation and filing to our youth sports association clients. Just as importantly, you will help us reimagine what the back office for youth sports should look like: your judgment, your workflows, and your treasurer’s instincts will be built directly into the product.

The ideal candidate has lived both sides of this problem, as a practicing CPA and as a treasurer or board officer of a youth sports organization. You know what the monthly close feels like at 11pm on a school night, and you want to fix it for everyone.

Client delivery

• Own monthly bookkeeping, reconciliation, and financial reporting for a portfolio of youth sports association clients, including organization and team-level accounts

• Prepare and file federal and state returns for nonprofit clients — Form 990, 990-EZ, and 990-T (UBIT) — and manage the full contractor lifecycle from W-9 collection through 1099 filing

• Support state compliance obligations, including charitable gambling reporting and sales tax filings

• Prepare clients for board-directed and state-mandated audits with clean work papers, documentation, and internal controls, working alongside independent audit firms (Reliever prepares books; we do not audit them)

• Deliver board-ready monthly treasurer’s reports and advise volunteer boards on budgets, internal controls, and fiduciary best practices

Building the future of the back office

• Work with product and engineering to encode accounting workflows, controls, and compliance logic into the Reliever platform — turning your expertise into software that simplifies and automates workflows using AI

• Define the service playbooks, chart-of-accounts standards, and close processes that will let Reliever serve hundreds of associations

• Sit in on design-partner sessions with real treasurers; translate their pain into product requirements

• Help shape pricing, packaging, and the professional-services roadmap as an early voice on the founding team

• Active, registered CPA license in good standing (Minnesota licensure or ability to obtain promptly)

• Hands-on…