Senior Accountant What's Awesome About Our Client? 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. Why This Job - Senior Accountant This is a senior accountant role on a small team with a truly exceptional leadership group. 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. It's an individual contributor seat, and that's on purpose. Nobody reports to you. You get the senior, technical side of the books without spending your week managing people, and you get it on a balance sheet north of $500 million inside an organization small enough to see all of. It's also a team that wants the month-end close to get 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'd look at a ten-hour manual reconciliation and find a way to build something new so it only takes an hour. If you're 2-3 years in, want to go deeper instead of wider, and would rather learn from the best in the Valley than manage a team, this one could be for you.

What You'll Actually Do:

Prepare and post the complex journal entries: payroll, accruals, allocations, investments and the related entities. Almost every dollar here is restricted to something a donor chose, so booking it to the right place is how the organization keeps its promises. Build the balance sheet reconciliations and run down the variances and aged items. On a balance sheet this size, the reconciliations are what the auditors, the board and the donors are trusting. Own your pieces of the month-end and year-end close and hit the deadlines. The team has been missing its close timelines while changing processes and growing at the same time, and this seat is where that gets fixed. Keep the books for the affiliated entities, including the invoicing, entries, reconciliations and first-pass reporting. They recently folded a separate nonprofit into the organization, so this is a live piece of the job and not a footnote. Research the odd gifts and transactions, document what you find, and recommend the treatment to the Controller. A gift with strings attached is where nonprofit accounting gets interesting, and the Controller wants your answer before she has to go find one. Build the annual audit and tax workpapers, pull the samples and answer the auditors directly. The audit finalizes in September and the tax return follows in November, so this is the stretch where the whole team leans on you being organized. Prepare the investment pool schedules, run the annual spending distribution, and pull the budget-to-actual reports so the big variances get flagged. The spending distribution is what turns the endowment into scholarships and programs, so the math has to be right. Find the manual work and automate it. They run Copilot, a lot of the reconciliations are still done by hand, and they'd rather you found the better way than kept doing it the slow way.

What You Bring:

3 to 5 years of progressively responsible accounting, with complex journal entries, reconciliations and audit or tax schedules you prepared yourself. A Bachelor's in accounting, finance or a closely related field. CPA or CPA candidate preferred, not required. They cover the AICPA nonprofit CPE track. GAAP you can apply on your own, and the judgment to know when to research something and when to escalate it. 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. Intermediate to advanced Excel, and an actual appetite for automating things rather than inheriting them. Their ERP is a major nonprofit-specific platform. If you've run a close in NetSuite, Sage or any other major ERP, it maps over almost one to one. The soft skills to explain the numbers to a department head who doesn't read financial statements.

Where and How Much:

Bozeman, MT. In the office the first 90 days, then flexible. $75,000 to $85,000 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&D 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.

Pay:

$80,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

403(b) Health insurance Paid time off

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in Bozeman, MT 59715