Senior Accounting Manager Minneapolis, MN

Senior Accounting Manager

We are looking for an experienced Senior Accounting Manager to join a leading investment management organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This role will guide complex investment accounting activities, strengthen financial reporting quality, and partner closely with finance and business stakeholders across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings strong accounting knowledge, leadership capability, and a proactive approach to improving controls, processes, and reporting outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary accounting resource for internal finance partners, offering guidance on investment-related accounting matters and helping address technically complex issues.
• Oversee team output by reviewing accounting work, resolving exceptions, and ensuring accurate treatment of investment transactions and related reporting activities.
• Authorize journal entries, reconciliation activities, and manual accounting procedures while maintaining reliable data flow from operational and financial systems into the general ledger.
• Investigate reporting fluctuations, prepare clear variance explanations for leadership, and collaborate with Treasury, Tax, and External Reporting on transactions with broader financial implications.
• Maintain a disciplined control environment that supports accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close results, including review of investment-related disclosures in periodic and regulatory filings.
• Partner with external auditors to support audit requests, walkthroughs, and control testing, ensuring timely completion of required procedures.
• Drive operational enhancements that improve efficiency, reinforce controls, and reduce financial risk across accounting processes.
• Lead, coach, and develop team members while providing direction across cross-functional efforts and encouraging strong collaboration with key business partners.
• Support the design and refinement of end-to-end accounting process flows and controls related to compensation, benefit plans, and associated systems where relevant to financial reporting.
• Contribute accounting expertise to strategic business initiatives that affect investment accounting processes, reporting structures, or control design.