Staff Accountant (Rise)

About the Role

Staff Accountant

Hybrid Remote • Fridley, MN • Finance

Description

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. 

Requirements

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.