Accounting & Finance Manager

Our mission at the Minnesota Vikings is to Advance the Vikings legacy through the passionate pursuit of excellence.

These are our Values: We strive to achieve, we put the team first, we seek to learn, we exhibit high character, and we are committed to a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment.

About the Role

The Accounting & Finance Manager is a hands-on leader and trusted business partner who strengthens financial accuracy, reporting, planning, and decision support across the organization. This role leads and mentors Accounting & Finance staff, supports GAAP and NFL reporting, leads organization-wide budgets and forecasts, and leads the financial analysis function across treasury, debt, insurance, capital planning, and strategic initiatives. This role combines strong technical finance and accounting expertise with business acumen to drive informed decision-making. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting fundamentals with curiosity, sound judgment, clear communication, and a consistent focus on process improvement.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Treasury, Risk Management, and Stadium Programs

• Develop and own treasury activities including regular cash forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, debt compliance, and capital structure analysis.
• Lead compliance for and evaluation of debt structure (bank requirements, refinance, paydowns, interest rates, etc.).
• Lead risk management activities including insurance renewals, broker relationships, workers compensation administration, and risk mitigation initiatives, and analyze insurance program effectiveness.
• Manage administration of Stadium Builders Licenses (SBL) program and stadium working capital funds.

Financial Planning, Modeling, and Reporting

• Lead organization-wide budgets and forecasts through assumption review, trend analysis, financial modeling, and decision-support materials, including compilation and summarization of output for senior leadership and ownership.
• Lead and develop complex financial models supporting strategic initiatives, capital investments, business opportunities, and operational decisions, including scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, ROI/payback analysis, and long-range forecasting.
• Build structured business issue evaluations and support capital planning, including evaluation of project economics, cash timing, depreciation, and forecast impacts.
• Monitor financial performance, analyze significant variances to budget and prior year, clearly explain key drivers, and communicate insights and recommended actions.

• Prepare and analyze financial reports, KPIs, forecasts, and management reporting packages, and lead preparation of ongoing status of financial condition.

Compliance and Audit

• Own compliance for debt covenants, insurance requirements, and certain company policies as assigned.
• Serve as a key contributor to annual audits (including the GAAP audit), league reporting (including AUPS, Conforming Report, and Salary Cap Statement), financial reporting, and other regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Coordinate reporting schedules, supporting documentation, and audit requests to ensure accurate and timely submissions, and provide support as needed for income tax return filings.

Transactional Accuracy and Process Ownership

• Ensure appropriate technical accounting treatment and coding of transactions, and complete and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules with accuracy and timeliness.
• Support capital accounting, including project tracking, capitalization analysis, fixed asset management, and coordination of long-term depreciation forecasts.
• Maintain current, documented policies, procedures, and process controls, and work with the team to improve controls, data quality, reporting quality, workflow efficiency, and financial system utilization, promoting a structured approach to change management and cross-functional workflow improvement.

Business Partnership and Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor by providing timely, reliable, data-driven financial insights and decision support for business projects and strategic initiatives, and simplify complex financial information into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Collaborate across departments and with league contacts, auditors, financial institutions, insurers, and other external partners to evaluate opportunities, risks, and operational performance.
• Support ownership and executive leadership with special projects and committee participation, including shared services, company-wide strategic initiatives, and Ownership requests, as assigned.
• Lead, coach, and develop Accounting & Finance staff, including direct supervision of the Accounting & Finance Associate and other assigned team members, and foster a culture of growth, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring

• Four or more years of progressive accounting, finance, audit, or financial analysis experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including leading major bodies of work and delivering the story behind financial analysis and reporting to senior leadership.
• Advanced accounting and financial analysis skills, with the ability to support GAAP, NFL and league reporting, audit, treasury, capital planning, budgeting, and forecasting requirements.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and business partnering skills, including the ability to gather disparate data, identify key drivers, develop actionable recommendations, and connect detailed financial work to broader business objectives.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including executive-level storytelling and the ability to communicate complex information to executive and non-financial audiences and influence decision-making.

• Highly organized and detail oriented, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple priorities.
• Strong listener and collaborator who challenges assumptions constructively, solves problems, and leads difficult conversations when needed, with high integrity and discretion when handling confidential information.
• Accomplished leader capable of coaching and developing employees, motivating high-performing teams, and inspiring confidence.

Preferred

• Public accounting, audit, professional sports, entertainment, or other complex multi-entity business experience.
• Experience with enterprise financial systems, reporting tools, process automation, or system implementations.
• Experience supporting debt, treasury, insurance, capital projects, or long-range financial planning.
• Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related business field.

Work Environment

• Standard professional office environment with regular collaboration across departments and with external partners. This role is based at the Minnesota Vikings headquarters in Eagan, Minnesota, with the organization's applicable hybrid working policy.
• Occasional non-traditional hours may be required to support organizational priorities, events, or reporting deadlines.
• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time. Ability to perform occasional physical tasks such as lifting and moving boxes or materials. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position may require access to confidential records and information. The individual must maintain the confidentiality of all information encountered in performing the role.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Minnesota Vikings are committed to creating and sustaining a culture that embraces and empowers people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to equitable opportunities and an environment where each person can contribute to the success of the organization and the communities we serve.