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.
What happens when a company doubles in size in a single year—and expects to do it again? They create opportunities like this.
We’re partnering with a rapidly growing, PE-backed manufacturing company in the Twin Cities that serves the data center infrastructure market, one of the biggest beneficiaries of AI, cloud computing, and digital transformation.
They’re hiring an Accounts Payable Specialist to help support their next phase of growth. This is a newly created role offering exposure to a fast-paced environment, strong leadership, and a company investing heavily in its people, systems, and future.
What We’re Looking For
2+ years of Accounts Payable or related accounting experience
Experience processing invoices in an ERP environment
Knowledge of three-way matching and vendor payment workflows
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
What Sets This Opportunity Apart
Newly created position due to explosive company growth
Private equity-backed organization with significant investment
High-growth industry tied to AI and data center expansion
Direct exposure to accounting leadership
Opportunity to help support future process and systems improvements
If you’re looking for a stable company with a compelling growth story and the chance to make an immediate impact, apply directly!
Our client, a well-established and growing manufacturing organization in Central Minnesota, is seeking a Staff Accountant to join its corporate finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career accounting professional looking to gain broad exposure across financial reporting, manufacturing accounting, process improvement, and cross-functional business support within a collaborative environment.
Reporting directly to accounting leadership, this individual will play a key role in month-end close, reconciliations, journal entries, variance analysis, financial reporting, audit support, budgeting activities, and finance transformation initiatives.
The organization is continuing to invest heavily in its accounting infrastructure and is specifically looking for someone who embraces technology and enjoys finding smarter, more efficient ways to work — including leveraging automation and AI tools to improve accounting processes and reporting visibility.
We are partnering with a well-established environmental products platform to help identify an Accounting Manager to join their growing team. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Senior Accountant or a current Accounting Manager who wants broader ownership, direct exposure to leadership, and the ability to make a visible impact inside a hands-on, entrepreneurial business. This role offers the chance to step beyond a traditional corporate accounting seat and become the primary accounting partner for a locally operated business. You’ll work closely with operations leadership and corporate finance while helping improve processes, reporting, and financial visibility across the organization.
We are partnering with a growing, fast-paced organization to identify a Senior Accountant to join their team. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys taking ownership, solving problems, and working in an environment where they can continue to expand their skill set and make a meaningful impact. This role offers broad exposure across accounting operations, project accounting, fixed assets, and lease accounting, while partnering closely with teams throughout the business. The ideal candidate is naturally curious, detail-oriented, and excited to leverage modern technology and process improvements to drive efficiency and accuracy. If you are someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys balancing day-to-day accounting responsibilities with analytical and project-based work, and wants visibility across the organization, this could be a strong next step in your career. This is a hybrid opportunity, one day per week onsite in the East Metro.
We are partnering with a PE-backed construction services company in Willmar, MN to find their first dedicated accounting hire. The business is highly profitable, growing fast, and in the early stages of building out its finance function. If you are looking for real ownership of the books and a direct line to leadership, this is a cant miss opportunity!
We are partnering with a growing insurance organization to identify a Senior Financial Analyst to join their expanding finance team in the Twin Cities. This is a highly visible role supporting enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, modeling, and strategic decision-making initiatives. The organization is actively investing in finance systems, analytics tools, and reporting capabilities, creating an opportunity for someone who enjoys building processes, improving visibility, and influencing business strategy.
If you’re looking for a high-visibility, high-variety role where you’ll partner across nearly every part of the business, this could be a great next step. We are seeking a Manager of Financial Reporting to step into a key role currently being vacated due to an internal promotion into FP&A, highlighting the company’s strong track record of cross-functional mobility and long-term investment in developing talent from within!
Our client is a rapidly growing, privately held consumer products manufacturer with a national footprint and a strong reputation for operational excellence, innovation, and best-in-class customer partnerships. Headquartered in the Twin Cities, the company has scaled significantly over the past decade through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions, evolving into a true market leader with strong momentum and continued upside.
We’ve partnered with this organization for over 8 years and consistently see it as one of the strongest long-term career destinations in the market. The culture is highly collaborative, performance-driven, and deeply committed to internal mobility. High performers don’t just get promoted, they move across functions and into leadership roles!
This is a Manager of Financial Reporting opportunity built for a public accounting professional ready to step into a high-visibility industry role with real breadth and impact. You’ll take ownership of key areas of external reporting while also gaining exposure to technical accounting, FP&A, audit coordination, and strategic initiatives, including M&A and post-deal integration.
In this role, you’ll work closely with accounting, FP&A, tax, operations finance, external auditors, and senior leadership, giving you direct exposure to how the business operates and how strategic decisions are made at the top.
For someone coming out of public accounting, this is a standout opportunity to accelerate your learning curve, take on meaningful ownership early, and set yourself up for long-term growth into FP&A, corporate development, or broader accounting leadership.
SkyWater Search Partners is excited to be partnering with a New York-based private equity firm with a newly established Minneapolis office to identify a Senior Accountant to join their Finance & Operations team in the Twin Cities.
This firm manages a multi-strategy private equity platform and has built a tight-knit, high-caliber accounting and finance team with a strong culture of collaboration and long-term thinking. They opened their Minnesota office in late 2024 and are now building out their local team – this hire is a foundational role in that effort. The team operating out of Minneapolis works in close partnership with senior Finance leadership in New York, giving this person meaningful visibility and access to leadership from day one.
For a public accounting professional ready to make the move to industry, this is one of the more compelling opportunities in the Twin Cities. You are not going to a Fortune 500 corporate accounting seat with a defined lane and a five-year wait for your next title. You are stepping into a private equity environment where the work is varied, the exposure is broad, and the upward trajectory is real. If a portco CFO seat or a career in private equity finance is on your radar, this is a meaningful first step.
The Opportunity
As a Senior Accountant, you will support the Controller and Assistant Controller with the day-to-day accounting and fund administration for the firm’s investment funds. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role with direct exposure to fund accounting, investor reporting, audit, compliance, and operational initiatives across a growing platform.
Key Responsibilities
• Support preparation of quarterly and annual fund financial statements and reporting schedules • Assist with investor capital calls, distributions, and LP audit confirmations • Coordinate annual audit activities, including preparing audit support and liaising with external auditors • Support regulatory filings and ongoing compliance requirements in partnership with the NYC accounting team • Maintain fund accounting records, accounts payable, cash management, and treasury-related activities • Interface with limited partners, fund administrators, auditors, and banks as directed • Complete investor due diligence questionnaires and other ad hoc data requests • Support process improvement initiatives as the team scales
Qualifications
• CPA (active, required) • 2–4 years of Big Four or public accounting experience • Strong technical accounting foundation with the ability to ramp quickly in a new environment • Self-starter who can operate independently in a satellite office setting • Polished communicator who can build trust across a distributed team • Curious and adaptable – PE background is not required, but you need to want to learn it • 5 days per week in-office at the Minneapolis location
We are thrilled to be partnering with a long-time client of ours on a key addition to their Executive Leadership Team! This is a unique Cost Accounting leadership opportunity with a well-established manufacturing business here in the Twin Cities.
This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill cost accounting role. The position sits on the executive leadership team and offers significant visibility across the organization, with heavy crossover into operations and the opportunity to serve as a true business partner to manufacturing and operational leadership.
They are looking for someone who can not only own costing, inventory, and manufacturing accounting, but also help drive operational efficiencies, improve processes, and support stronger decision-making across the plant environment.
If you’re someone who enjoys having a seat at the table, partnering cross-functionally, and making a tangible impact on how a business operates rather than simply maintaining the status quo, this could be a really exciting opportunity.
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