SkyWater is pleased to be retained on a Chief Financial Officer search for a well-established and highly respected law firm. This is a newly created leadership position designed to support the firm’s continued growth and long-term strategic initiatives. The CFO will serve as the firm’s top financial leader and a key advisor to the Managing Partner and leadership team.
This individual will oversee all financial operations of the firm while providing strategic financial guidance in a partnership-based environment. The CFO will work closely with firm leadership and partners to support decision-making, ensure financial stability, and drive operational efficiency.
The firm offers a collaborative, collegial culture with a strong reputation, supportive leadership, and a team-oriented environment.
Local candidates to Minneapolis or Chicago will be considered. This role is primarily in office with occasional flexibility to work from home.
Additional details about the firm will be shared with qualified candidates during the interview process.
We are thrilled to be partnering with a well-established, family office-backed organization to hire a Tax Manager to join their internal tax team. This is a high-impact role offering the opportunity to step into a leadership position while working on complex tax matters across a diverse and sophisticated portfolio.
This team operates as an in-house tax function supporting real estate investments, operating companies, private equity partnerships, trusts, and foundations.
What you’ll be doing:
Manage tax compliance workflow across a large volume of pass-through entities
Review tax returns and workpapers prepared by staff
Serve as a key point of contact for assigned entities and stakeholders
Oversee tax projections, estimates, and planning initiatives
Conduct technical tax research and communicate findings clearly
Support process improvements and help drive efficiency across the team
Strong project management skills and ability to take ownership
Interest in both compliance and tax planning
What sets this apart:
Leadership role within an in-house tax team
Complex and varied work across multiple industries and entity types
Stable environment with strong visibility and impact
Hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 remote)
This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to move out of public accounting into a role that still offers technical depth, but with more balance and long-term stability. Please reach out to hear more – CRabon@skywatersearch.com | 952.767.9025
We are partnering with a growing manufacturing company to hire an Accounting Manager to help build and scale the accounting function.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role focused on owning core accounting processes today while helping establish the structure, reporting discipline, and controls needed for a rapidly growing, multi-entity organization.
Unique opportunity to join an early-stage logistics start-up in Chicago to lead their billing and accounts payable processes and implement best practices. This will work directly with operational leadership to build and define how this corner of the business operates, and they are ideally looking for someone who can act as a strategic advisor as they scale and grow.
This is an incredibly unique opportunity to build something and get in at the ground floor of a growing business — There is tons of headroom to take on more responsibility as the company expands and will accelerate your career quickly if you are motivated to do so.
Ideal candidates have multiple years of logisitcs AP/AR/Billing experience.
SkyWater is excited to partner with a leading Midwest-based nonprofit healthcare organization (~$500M revenue) as they bring on a Vice President of Finance to step into a clearly defined CFO succession plan within 6-9 months.
This is a rare opportunity to join a mission-driven organization at scale while shaping the future of its financial strategy and infrastructure.
Initially focused on operational finance leadership, you will oversee financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and regional finance teams across a multi-site organization. In short order, you will transition into the CFO role, assuming responsibility for enterprise financial strategy, capital planning, treasury, revenue cycle, and technology alignment.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out:
Defined, near-term path to CFO
Significant influence on organizational transformation
Mission-driven culture with strong leadership alignment
Opportunity to modernize systems and drive enterprise impact
What if your analytics work directly drove $100M+ business decisions?
If you are looking for a role that operates at the intersection of strategy, operations, and data where you’ll partner directly with executive leadership to help shape business decisions, this is the opportunity for you!
SkyWater is thrilled to be partnering with a rapidly scaling, data-driven services company as they look to hire a Director of Strategic Analytics. This is a fully remote position focused on building and leading a high-impact analytics function. It’s a true “build + influence” opportunity reporting directly to the President, not a reporting role. As the head of this department, you will define KPI’s, build dashboards, and drive strategy across the full business lifecycle (marketing ? operations ? case outcomes).
This organization has grown to $400M in revenue with strong profitability and is on a trajectory towards multi-billion-dollar scale, and analytics will sit at the center of that growth.
What Sets This Apart:
Direct influence on company-wide strategy
Fully remote, high-performance culture
Opportunity to build analytics from the ground up
Significant growth trajectory and executive visibility
SkyWater Search Partners is excited to partner with a highly respected boutique investment bank in Edina, Minnesota, to identify an Investment Banking Associate to join their growing team. This firm stands out for its strong commitment to work-life balance, offering a sustainable environment with minimal weekend work – an uncommon advantage in the investment banking space.
As an Investment Banking Associate, you will play a key role in executing live M&A and capital raising mandates, supporting clients through every stage of the deal lifecycle. This role offers a unique blend of analytical rigor, client exposure, and hands-on deal execution.
This firm is known for delivering high-impact advisory services across mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, restructuring, and strategic consulting. Their client base spans public and private companies, private equity firms, lenders, and growth-stage businesses across a range of industries.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an entrepreneurial, high-performing team where you will work directly with senior bankers and gain meaningful exposure to live transactions, particularly within the renewable fuels and agribusiness sectors.
SkyWater is exclusively partnering with a leading construction and infrastructure company to find a full-time, onsite Project Controller based in the Twin Cities. Ideally, we are looking for candidates already local to Minnesota, but we are also open to candidates from outside the area who are motivated and ready to relocate.
In this role, you will be the key finance partner for large-scale construction and infrastructure projects. You will help project teams manage budgets, track cash flows, identify risks, and ensure accurate financial reporting. You will also mentor team members, improve processes, and play an important role in keeping projects running smoothly.
Skywater has partnered with this long-standing client for years, successfully placing more than 20 people across the business. We are now helping them find a Director of Finance Operations to lead plant-level financial management. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on accounting and operational finance. You will drive month-end close, variance analysis, forecasting, and AOP while partnering closely with plant operations to ensure financial discipline, cost optimization, and operational efficiency.
As the company grows, this role will evolve. You will pivot from hands-on accounting to broader oversight and leadership while still staying connected to the day-to-day financial operations.
Local candidates in Minnesota will only be considered.
Are you a data-driven problem solver who loves turning complex operational challenges into clear, actionable insights? We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to drive workforce strategy and operational analytics across customer service and operational teams.
In this role, you’ll connect finance, operations, and workforce planning to help leaders answer questions like: Where are the bottlenecks? Are staffing, process, or productivity issues slowing us down? How can we optimize resources to improve service and revenue?
Only candidates located in Minnesota will be considered.
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