Senior Accountant – Leadership Development Program

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52726

We are excited to be partnering with a fast-paced organization looking to add Senior Accountant to join its accounting team. This is a highly visible role offering broad exposure across corporate accounting, revenue accounting, technical accounting, systems, controls, and process improvement.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys owning complex work, partnering across the business, and building a well-rounded foundation for long-term growth. The role includes participation in a structured rotational program providing strong mentorship, leadership visibility, and exposure to multiple areas of the accounting function.

This is a hybrid opportunity, must be local to the Twin Cities area to be considered.
 

Senior Revenue Accountant

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52725

We are partnering with a fast-growing SaaS organization looking to add to their accounting team. This person will support revenue recognition, financial reporting, and process improvement across a dynamic accounting function. This is a strong opportunity for someone who enjoys technical accounting, contract review, cross-functional partnership, and helping build scalable processes in a growing environment.

In this role, you’ll gain broad exposure, mentorship, visibility to leadership, and the chance to deepen your technical accounting skill set.

This is a hybrid opportunity with three in-office days per month.

Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS / GCP)

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52724

We are partnered with a longtime financial services client to bring on a Senior Cloud Engineer. In this hire they are seeking a true “A” player to help modernize and scale a next-generation enterprise data platform. This role is focused on cloud infrastructure engineering, automation, platform reliability, and building scalable infrastructure patterns in a highly collaborative environment.

This is not a traditional DevOps / DBA role. The ideal candidate will bring deep cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, strong automation skills, and the ability to operate across modern platforms, DevOps, and data infrastructure initiatives.
 

Senior Business Analyst

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52723

We are partnered with a longtime financial services client to bring on a talented Business Analyst. This is not a traditional “ticket-taking” BA role. The team is looking for someone who can operate as a true bridge between business and technology. Someone who can partner closely with senior stakeholders across HR, finance, and enterprise systems initiatives.

The ideal profile is someone with strong business systems/process orientation,
executive communication skills, and ideally experience within financial services, investment management, or similarly complex enterprise environments.

Hybrid role 3 days a week onsite. Must be local to the Twin Cities. 

Senior Data Platform Engineer (GCP / AWS)

  • Location: Minneapolis , Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52722

We are partnered with a longtime financial services client to bring on a talented Sr. Data Platform Engineer to help lead a full-scale modernization of its enterprise data ecosystem.

This is not a maintenance role and will require someone who can be both in the weeds coding daily while also acting as a technical SME. The team today is talented, lean, and intentionally moving away from a heavily Microsoft-centric environment and rebuilding its modern data platform from the ground (lots of greenfield work) up using GCP, BigQuery, AI-assisted engineering capabilities, and enterprise-scale architecture principles.

If you are looking for a high impact role with a company that’s truly looking to differentiate itself from its competition through modern technology + data capabilities we should connect.

Hybrid role onsite 3 days a week. Must be local to the Twin Cities.

Distribution Sales Manager

  • Location: antioch, Illinois
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52713

A fast-growing, family-owned manufacturer of foodservice packaging solutions is seeking a strategic Distribution Channel Manager to own and accelerate performance across its national distributor and redistributor network. Based in the Midwest with up to 50% travel, this high-impact sales role will translate market insights into revenue growth, deepen product penetration, and expand custom and catalog opportunities for mid-sized QSR, fast-casual, and c-store chains.

This is a high travel role- Expect to be on the road and have overnight travel 50% +
Compensation: $120,000 – $150,000 / year

Production Manager

  • Location: Minneapolis-St. Paul
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52712

Our client is seeking a Production Manager to lead daily manufacturing operations within a fast-paced food production environment. This individual will oversee production teams, drive operational performance, and ensure the facility continues to scale efficiently while maintaining high standards around safety, quality, and production.

This is a highly visible leadership role within a growing organization and is ideal for a hands-on manufacturing leader who enjoys building teams, improving processes, and driving results on the production floor.

Commercial Litigation Associate

  • Location: Los Angeles, California
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52711

A prominent national law firm is seeking a Litigation Associate to join its Los Angeles office as part of a highly regarded commercial litigation team handling complex, high-stakes disputes, including matters involving brand and reputational issues. This opportunity is ideal for a 4th or 5th year associate seeking sophisticated trial-focused work with significant responsibility and direct client exposure.

The team represents celebrities, executives, athletes, influencers, and corporate clients in high-profile disputes involving defamation, crisis management, reputational attacks, cyber-related issues, and other sensitive matters where public perception and media strategy are critical components of the representation.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • 4–5 years of sophisticated litigation experience at a law firm
  • Experience handling key phases of complex litigation, including discovery, motion practice, depositions, witness preparation, and trial preparation
  • Strong writing, analytical, and case management skills
  • The ability to work directly with clients, partners, and senior trial lawyers in a fast-paced environment
  • A desire for meaningful stand-up responsibility and hands-on litigation experience

This position offers:

  • Exposure to nationally visible and high-profile disputes
  • A sophisticated, trial-focused litigation platform
  • Direct interaction with clients, witnesses, and senior litigators
  • Accelerated professional development and substantive responsibility

The anticipated compensation range for this role is approximately $285,000 to $325,000, depending on experience and qualifications.

HR Manager

  • Location: Chanhassen, Minnesota
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52709

Human Resources Manager | Twin Cities West Metro | $115K–$130K + Bonus

I’m partnering with a growing, operationally driven organization in the Twin Cities west metro on a Human Resources Manager succession search, following the retirement of a long-tenured HR leader after 31 years with the company. This role reports directly to the Director of Operations..

This is a highly visible role for someone who enjoys being embedded in the business, balancing strategic partnership with hands-on execution across employee relations, compliance, payroll, compensation, benefits, leadership coaching, and culture.

What stands out to me about this opportunity is the level of influence and trust this person will have across the organization. The leadership team is looking for someone who can continue bringing structure, accountability, operational partnership, and strong HR judgment while strengthening people processes as the company continues to grow.

A few things that feel especially important for success:
• Strong employee relations and investigation experience
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Ability to coach leaders while also holding the line when needed
• Experience managing payroll and HR operations end-to-end
• Someone who genuinely enjoys building trust across all levels of an organization
• Practical HR leadership

The environment is a privately owned, collaborative, visible, and relationship-driven company. This is not a sit-behind-the-desk HR role, although there is some of that. They want someone who likes being in the business, solving problems, improving processes, and helping leaders lead better.

Compensation targets $115K–$130K base + bonus.

If you’d be open to learning more, feel free to apply to the link or message me directly on LinkedIn (Dannie Smith) or via email at DSmith@skywatersearch.com

Accounting Manager

  • Location: North Mankato, Minnesota
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #52708

Accounting Manager
Salary up to $120,000 + bonus
Hybrid – onsite 2-3 days a week

We are partnering with a PE-backed waste and recycling company in North Mankato, MN to hire an Accounting Manager to lead the accounting function across a growing, multi-location platform.

This role is a great fit for an experienced accounting professional who wants to lead a team, stay close to the work, and have real influence over how finance runs across a complex, operationally driven business.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in the grey and is excited about building and improving processes in a dynamic environment. There is a clear growth path to Controller as the platform continues to grow and acquire.

In interested, apply today! 

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