Staff Accountant

At Rise, we believe that everyone deserves opportunities to live a life filled with purpose and pride. In our employment, housing, and life-enrichment services, we support people to set and achieve their personal goals. As a nonprofit, every Rise team member is driven by our mission. That shared commitment is the foundation of a workplace that embraces a culture of learning and growth by offering extensive training, competitive salaries, and a fun work environment. We are an inspiring leader in disability services that wants to make a real difference in people's lives!

Position Summary

The Staff Accountant is responsible for day-to-day accounting operations, including maintaining financial records, preparing financial reports, reconciling accounts, and supporting accounts payable, receivable, billing, payroll, and grant accounting functions. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and compliance with nonprofit and grant requirements.

Essential Duties

Key Expectations

• Standards of Excellence Commitment: All Rise employees are expected to commit to, sign and follow-through on Rise's Standards of Excellence. Refer to "Standards of Excellence Commitment" document. In the Employee Handbook.
• Person-Centered Practices: Learn and consistently perform person-centered practices: Identify those things that are important to people who receive support; implement strategies to assure they are present in day-to-day life. Identify areas where change can happen without permission. Act on those areas.
• Communication: All Rise employees are expected to communicate effectively with other staff, external stakeholders and people we serve in a respectful and timely manner. This includes but is not limited to reading and responding to email in a timely manner, answering and responding to phone calls and voicemails, foster open communication; listening to others; preparing professional written communications as needed.

Responsibilities

Month-End Close & Financial Reporting

• Assist with monthly close and financial reporting processes
• Assist with preparing and posting journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, and allocations.
• Assist with analyzing financial results and identifying trends or variances.

Cash Receipts & Banking

• Process cash receipts & post daily transactions and maintain accurate documentation.
• Save remittance and cash receipts documentation in SharePoint & DocuWare.
• Assist with cash flow planning and forecasting.

Accounts Payable & Disbursements (Backup Support)

• Serve as backup for accounts payable functions.
• Ensure proper documentation, approvals, and audit readiness.
• Support vendor audits and internal control processes.

Payroll & Allocation

• Prepare and review payroll-related journal entries.
• Verify payroll allocations and ensure accuracy across cost centers.
• Monitor payroll actual vs. budget and investigate discrepancies.
• Process employee reimbursements and review for policy compliance

Grant Accounting & Compliance

• Assist with grant-related journal entries and accruals
• Support grant payroll allocations and FTE analysis
• Provide support for grant audits, and funder request.

Expense Review & Account Reconciliations

• Review expenses for proper coding & approval
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations & summarize including rent and lease expenses, milage and transportation, repairs and maintenance, and professional fees.

Operational Accounting & Other Responsibilities

• Maintain insurance schedules and expense tracking by policy
• Support lease management by reviewing and updating contracts
• Assist with internal audits, including expense and compliance reviews.
• Assist with donation reconciliations and annual reporting.
• Assist with medical and non-medical billing processes.
• Support cash application and reconciliation of billing activity.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Customer service mindset
• Integrity and accountability.

Required Education, Experience, and other Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 2 years of general accounting experience (nonprofit preferred)
• Experience with reconciliations, AP/AR, and financial reporting
• Strong excel and accounting system skills
• Ability to learn a new system (e.g., myEvolv, Microsoft Great Plains)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with nonprofit and grant accounting
• Experience with medical billing
• Knowledge of Federal and State compliance requirments
• Experience with myEvolv

Working Conditions and Environment

• Hours of Work: Hours of work are typically daytime, Monday through Friday.
• Travel: Must be able to travel to various locations throughout the day in Twin Cities area.
• Work Environment: This job operates primarily remote with occasional in-office work
• Physical Demands: Able to enter data and sit at a computer for up to eight hours a day.

Benefits

Wage: $27.19 - $31.56 per hour depending on qualifications

• Medical insurance - single employee coverage less than $90/month
• Dental insurance less than $17/month
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% vested employer match
• Rise sponsored Basic Life & AD &D insurance
• Voluntary Life, Short Term, and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Tuition reimbursement and Rise sponsored trainings (i.e., CPR, First Aide, and more) to help you be successful in your role
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO) starts at 16 days during your first year, plus 2 floating holiday, and 48 hours of ESST time per year
• Employee resource groups (i.e., DEI, LGBTQ+, recognition and more).
• A fun team environment that supports your professional development and opportunities for career advancement.
• Rise is a PSLF-eligible employer. Your qualified student loan balance may be forgiven after 120 covered payments.

Are you looking to work with a diverse team of professionals? Do you want to work in a fun environment while supporting others to live a life of possibilities? Then join Rise, Inc.!

Rise values being a person-centered organization. This impacts how we carry out services for the people we support and our organizational culture. We encourage people's unique individual differences and celebrate the ways our team members contribute to our community. We believe in a workplace informed by differing viewpoints and perspectives created from a diverse team and welcome people of all races, genders, ages, nationalities, religions, sexual orientations, and backgrounds to apply. Our goal is that those we serve, and our team members always feel valued and respected.