Job Title: Financial Reporting and Budget Analyst (Team Lead)
Job ID: 94197
What you’ll be doing:
The Minnesota State Lottery is seeking a highly skilled financial professional to serve as the agency’s key expert in financial reporting, budgeting, and fixed assets. This position functions as the team lead for the Finance group and plays a critical role in developing and administering the agency’s operating and long-range budgets, preparing financial statements, coordinating audits, and ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
The ideal candidate brings advanced accounting expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with diverse internal and external stakeholders. This position supports the CFO in shaping financial policy, maintaining the agency’s financial infrastructure, and presenting clear, accurate, and insightful financial information.
Responsibilities Include:
- Provide team leadership and direction to the Finance department to ensure objectives are met in the most efficient and effective manner.
- Provide technical expertise and end-user support as Power User to help facilitate and maintain an effective and efficient accounting department.
- Coordinates, prepares and administers the agency’s annual and long-range budgets, works with operating officials on projected needs and devises methods of adjusting budgets so that agency programs may be carried out efficiently and effectively.
- Act as liaison between the Lottery and the advertising agency
- Provide timely and accurate financial statements (GAAP), reports, analysis, projections and comparisons.
- Reconcile SWIFT 4800 Fund to JDE
- Maintain Fixed Asset additions and retirements and run depreciation in Fixed Asset system and post to General Ledger.
Minimum Qualifications
To facilitate proper credit, your resume must clearly describe your experience and skills in the areas listed below and indicate the beginning and ending month and year for each job held.
Position requires a minimum of four (4) years of accounting and finance experience in the following areas:
- Applying U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and governmental fund accounting.
- Financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis, including preparing financial statements, monitoring budgets, and analyzing variances.
- Demonstrated proficiency with JD Edwards and business intelligence systems.
- Demonstrated experience with auditing procedures.
Candidates will be evaluated on the following experience during the interview:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate data, identify issues, recommend corrective actions, and interpret statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Human relations and communication skills sufficient to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders (e.g., managers, auditors, state agencies, vendors).
- Ability to communicate effectively with individuals with a wide range of backgrounds, who do not share your same culture, ethnicity, language, or other common experiences.
*A Master’s degree in Accounting or a related field substitutes for eighteen months of experience, OR a related Bachelor’s degree substitutes for one year, OR a related Associate’s substitutes for six months.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to lead team activities, coordinate work, provide direction, and support department operations as a team leader.
- Technical proficiency with financial systems to include SWIFT and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).
- Ability to develop financial models, propose solutions, and evaluate impacts.
- Experience coordinating or supporting external audits, including legislative audits and independent financial reviews.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with a high degree of accuracy and independence.
Additional Requirements
The Minnesota State Lottery will conduct a criminal background check and fingerprint check at the time of job offer for all prospective new employees. The Minnesota State Lottery cannot hire any person who's been convicted of a felony or a crime involving fraud or misrepresentation within five years of employment or who's ever been convicted of a gambling-related offense
In addition, the Minnesota State Lottery will perform the following background checks:
- Employment Reference Checks (includes review of personnel file for current and former State of Minnesota employees)
- SEMA4 Records Check (for current and former State of Minnesota employees)
Posting Dates: 5/14/26 through 5/21/26
