We are looking for an accomplished finance leader to serve as a key partner to executive leadership within a privately held manufacturing company. This position will guide both finance and treasury operations, helping shape financial strategy, strengthen reporting, and support sound decision-making across the business. The role also provides leadership to a small team and offers the opportunity to influence planning, performance, and long-term growth.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Direct the organization’s finance and treasury activities, ensuring strong oversight of cash management, liquidity planning, and overall financial health.<br>• Lead the annual budgeting cycle and support ongoing forecasting efforts to align operating plans with business objectives.<br>• Oversee the month-end close process and maintain accurate, timely financial reporting for leadership review.<br>• Develop and refine budget processes, controls, and reporting practices to improve visibility into business performance.<br>• Prepare and analyze cash flow forecasts to support funding needs, working capital management, and strategic planning.<br>• Provide leadership and mentorship to a finance team of 3 to 5 employees, promoting accountability and focused development.<br>• Partner with senior leaders on strategic initiatives, including financial evaluation related to mergers, acquisitions, or other growth opportunities.<br>• Use tools such as Microsoft Power BI to enhance reporting, create dashboards, and deliver actionable financial insights.
<p>Our Client a growing Investment Management firm is looking for an accomplished Director of Accounting to lead the accounting function in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. This senior leadership role partners closely with the Controller and key business leaders to strengthen financial reporting, elevate accounting operations, and support a growing global organization. The position is responsible for building a scalable accounting environment that delivers accurate reporting, strong governance, and consistent execution across multiple entities.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead the accounting function for management company entities, setting priorities, directing workloads, and developing a high-performing team that supports business growth.</p><p>• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting activities, including close management, entity consolidations, intercompany balancing, and foreign currency accounting.</p><p>• Advise senior leadership on accounting matters, reporting implications, and policy decisions that affect operational and strategic initiatives.</p><p>• Establish, maintain, and refine accounting policies and technical guidance to support compliance, consistency, and audit readiness across jurisdictions.</p><p>• Review financial statements and related reporting deliverables to ensure completeness, accuracy, and adherence to applicable accounting standards.</p><p>• Strengthen internal controls by identifying risk areas, improving review procedures, and driving corrective actions where gaps are found.</p><p>• Act as the primary senior contact for external auditors, coordinating audit planning, managing multi-entity requests, and supporting efficient completion of fieldwork.</p><p>• Drive process improvement efforts across reconciliations, close activities, and reporting workflows to improve scalability, reduce manual effort, and increase efficiency.</p><p>• Partner with teams such as Tax, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to support regulatory reporting, entity governance, and broader organizational initiatives.</p>
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to support reporting, forecasting, and business decision-making for a team based in Burnsville, Minnesota. This Long-term Contract opportunity is ideal for someone who can turn financial data into clear insights, build practical models, and provide analytical support across a range of business needs. The role requires strong attention to detail, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and the ability to communicate findings in a meaningful way.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Develop financial models and analytical tools to evaluate business performance, support planning activities, and guide strategic decisions.<br>• Review operating results against forecasts and budgets, identify key drivers of variances, and summarize findings for stakeholders.<br>• Perform ad hoc financial analysis to address emerging business questions and support leadership with timely recommendations.<br>• Gather, organize, and interpret large data sets using data mining techniques to uncover trends, risks, and opportunities.<br>• Prepare recurring and on-demand financial reports that present accurate results and actionable insights in a clear format.<br>• Partner with cross-functional teams to collect financial inputs, validate assumptions, and improve the quality of analysis.<br>• Monitor financial metrics and help maintain reporting processes that support consistent and reliable decision-making.
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to support planning, reporting, and performance analysis for a growing organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This role combines financial modeling, systems ownership, and cross-functional partnership to improve visibility into business performance and support timely decision-making. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, experience with budgeting and forecasting, and the ability to turn complex data into practical financial insights.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Manage the Vena platform as the primary functional owner, including configuration, model structure, reporting logic, data hierarchies, and AI-enabled planning capabilities.<br>• Lead the financial onboarding of acquired businesses by organizing source data, validating accuracy, and building reliable reporting pipelines from operational systems and NetSuite.<br>• Create and enhance management reports, dashboards, and automated analyses that provide leadership with clear and timely financial insight.<br>• Maintain a rolling three-statement forecast along with a 13-week cash flow model to support liquidity planning, profitability analysis, and debt capacity evaluation.<br>• Work closely with department leaders to develop, consolidate, and monitor functional budgets and support company-wide planning activities.<br>• Build and maintain allocation methodologies for service-related functions and embed them into budgeting and forecast models to improve consistency across reporting.<br>• Update long-range financial models to reflect evolving growth assumptions, utilization expectations, and capital planning priorities.<br>• Track post-acquisition earn-out metrics and prepare accurate calculations and reporting to support performance-based payment obligations.<br>• Prepare recurring financial packages, variance explanations, lender deliverables, and covenant reporting for external stakeholders, including investors and financing partners.
<p>Our client in the Southwest metro is looking for a Financial Analyst with strong business partnering who has worked with large data sets and has done strategic analytics. This company is privately owned and has great leadership and is growing. Please reach out on LinkedIn @JenniferExsted.</p>
We are looking for a detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join our team in Newport, Minnesota. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to analyze financial data and provide insights that drive strategic decisions within our sales and marketing departments. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to the company’s growth through informed financial planning and reporting.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Analyze sales and marketing data to identify performance trends and provide actionable insights.<br>• Build and maintain financial models to support strategic planning and decision-making processes.<br>• Create and deliver reports on critical metrics such as customer acquisition costs and sales pipeline efficiency.<br>• Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to assess campaign effectiveness and recommend optimal budget allocations.<br>• Track expenses and variances, ensuring alignment with financial goals while identifying opportunities for cost savings.<br>• Assist in the development of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for sales and marketing departments.<br>• Conduct pricing and margin analyses to support decision-making, including customer profitability and segmentation.<br>• Manage and evaluate royalty rates, profitability of licensed products, and costing data to enhance financial outcomes.<br>• Present financial findings and recommendations to senior leadership in a clear and actionable format.<br>• Perform ad hoc financial analyses to support business strategies, pricing decisions, and organizational assessments.
<p>We are looking for an accomplished tax leader to oversee sophisticated investment-related tax matters with a growing Investment Management firm in the Minneapolis MN Market. This role works closely with senior leadership, investment professionals, legal partners, and outside advisors to guide transaction analysis, entity structuring, compliance oversight, and tax planning. The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth, practical judgment, and the ability to manage complex issues independently while supporting broader business objectives in a fast-moving environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Evaluate the tax impact of prospective and active investments across multiple investment strategies. </p><p>• Design and implement tax-efficient ownership and investment structures for U.S. taxable, tax-exempt, and non-U.S. investors.</p><p>• Collaborate with legal and deal teams to review, interpret, and negotiate fund formation and transaction documents with tax implications.</p><p>• Prepare and maintain clear written analyses, memoranda, and internal guidance that document tax conclusions, assumptions, and risk considerations.</p><p>• Direct federal, state, and international tax compliance activities for funds and related entities, including estimates, return review, and distribution planning.</p><p>• Advise investment stakeholders on tax issues tied to acquisitions, restructurings, exits, and other liquidity events, highlighting risks and planning opportunities.</p><p>• Lead audit and controversy support efforts by coordinating responses to tax authority inquiries and helping defend positions taken on filed returns.</p><p>• Drive tax-related projects, strengthen internal controls and documentation practices, and support improvements in scalable processes and technology.</p><p>• Manage relationships with external tax advisors, service providers, and relevant tax authorities while elevating significant policy or strategic matters to senior tax leadership.with</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Financial Reporting Senior Manager to lead external and regulatory reporting activities for a financial services organization in Twin Cities, Minnesota. This role will guide the preparation of accurate, timely filings, strengthen reporting controls, and serve as a trusted advisor on accounting and disclosure matters. The ideal candidate brings deep knowledge of financial and regulatory reporting, sound technical accounting judgment, and a proven ability to lead teams in a deadline-driven environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead the planning, preparation, and final review of recurring external and regulatory filings, ensuring submissions are complete, accurate, and delivered on schedule.</p><p>• Direct the production and review of various regulatory reports, capital-related schedules, and other required filings, with close attention to consistency across disclosures.</p><p>• Partner with finance, accounting, and business stakeholders to gather supporting data, resolve reporting issues, and maintain a high standard of quality for published information.</p><p>• Evaluate monthly and quarterly reporting schedules for internal and external use, and contribute to special projects involving technical accounting research, financial analysis, and peer disclosure comparisons.</p><p>• Review and authorize selected journal entries, confirming appropriate support, accurate accounting treatment, and adherence to internal control expectations.</p><p>• Advise on the financial reporting implications of enterprise initiatives, new products, and complex transactions, helping teams apply accounting guidance and implement related reporting requirements.</p><p>• Develop, enhance, and monitor internal controls over financial reporting, and coordinate with audit teams to support efficient and timely reviews.</p><p>• Provide day-to-day leadership to reporting staff by assigning priorities, reviewing workpapers and documentation, and coaching the team to meet critical deadlines.</p><p>• Communicate reporting conclusions, regulatory considerations, and accounting impacts clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.</p>